Historical Events
680 – 3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens
1929 – Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building in New York
1942 – First US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1954 – US spy plane shot down North of Japan
2019 – Song lyrics have gotten sadder says researchers who studied 50 years of lyrics at University of Exeter, published in journal “Evolutionary Human Sciences”
2019 – Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda, the “Terminator” is the to be convicted of sexual slavery by the International Criminal Court and is sentenced to 30 years in prison on 18 charges
Famous Birthdays
1933 – George Tibbits, Australian composer, born in Boulder, Western Australia (d. 2008)
1955 – Detlef Ultsch, German judoka (Olympic bronze 1980), born in Sonneberg, Bezirk Suhl, East Germany
1955 – René Marie, American jazz singer (Sound of Red), born in Warrenton, Virginia
1963 – John Barnes, British football player, born in Kingston, Jamaica
1972 – Emily Lesueur, American synchronized swimmer (Olympic gold teams 1996), born in Glendale, California
1976 – One Be Lo [Ralond Scruggs], American hip-hop artist (Binary Star), born in Pontiac, Michigan
Famous Deaths
1633 – Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (builder of the first submarine), dies
1944 – Richard Sorge, German spy for the Soviet Union in Tokyo during World War II, hanged in Tokyo at 49
1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in NYC
1974 – Sandra Rivett, English nanny to John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, allegedly bludgeoned to death by Mr Lucan at 29 before he mysteriously disappeared
1983 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (Le Marin du Bolivar), dies at 91
1986 – Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)