Historical Events
1948 – “Cradle Will Rock” closes at Mansfield Theater NYC after 34 performances
1969 – Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO
1976 – FCC raids and shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn New York)
1987 – Madonna’s “Open Your Heart” single goes #1
1990 – Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
2019 – First reports of poisonous homemade alcohol killing people in the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, will go on to kill about 100
Famous Birthdays
1612 – Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader (King’s Men)
1934 – King Curtis [Curtis Ousley], American musician, bandleader and saxophonist (Memphis Soul Stew), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 1971)
1954 – Miguel Ferrer, actor (Robocop, NCIS LA), born in Santa Monica, California (d. 2017)
1962 – Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian
1973 – Juwan Howard, NBA forward/center (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1988 – Nick Costa, American jazz drummer, born in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania
Famous Deaths
1862 – František Jan Škroup, Czech composer (Kde domov můj? – Czech national anthem), dies at 61
1948 – Red McKenzie, American jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies at 48
1954 – Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, composer, dies at 54
1959 – Napoleon Lajorie, baseball player, dies at 83
1995 – William Harry “Billy” Jones, American rock guitarist (The Outlaws), dies of self-inflicted gunshot at 45
1999 – Hussein ibn Talal, King of Jordan (1952-99), dies at 63