Historical Events
555 – Vigilius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchate of Aquileia
1906 – Chicago Cubs score 11 in 1st inning, beating NY Giants 19-0
1941 – Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and Richard L. M. Synge give the first demonstration of partition chromatography (separation of mixtures) at a meeting of the Biochemical Society held at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead
1969 – Washington Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1
1982 – 16th Music City News Country Awards: Barbara Mandrell
Famous Birthdays
1896 – Vivien Kellems, American industrialist, who battled the Federal tax system as discriminatory against single people, born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 1975)
1958 – Christopher Marcantel, actor (Chip-Nurse, Loving), born in Smithtown, New York
1962 – Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese racing driver, born in Ibaraki, Japan
1964 – Gia Carides, Greek-Australian actress
1973 – Robert Barr, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1988 – Milan Lucic, Canadian Hockey player (Boston Bruins)
Famous Deaths
1394 – Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England and wife of Richard II, dies at 28
1945 – Rubén M. Campos, Mexican novelist (Claudio Oranos) and musicologist (El folklore y la musica mexicana), dies at 69
1973 – Christine Lavant, Austrian poet and writer (Das Kind), dies at 57
1995 – Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)
1998 – Thomas Narcejac, French writer (Vertigo), dies at 89
2018 – David Douglas Duncan, American photo-journalist best known for his war photography, dies at 102