Historical Events
1920 – Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
1988 – Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
1988 – -11] Army in Rangoon, Myanmar fires on pro-democracy students, killing thousands during the “8888 Uprising”
1990 – Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp
2007 – Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as world’s richest person with estimated net worth of US$59 billion, according to “Fortune”
2016 – Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú wins the women’s 100m backstroke gold medal in a time of 58.45; her second gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games
Famous Birthdays
1605 – Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
1912 – Daniel Mann [Chugerman], American stage and screen director (The Rose Tattoo; The Teahouse Of The August Moon; Butterfield 8), born in Brooklyn, New York
1944 – Brooke Bundy, American actress
1953 – “Sweet” Lou Dunbar, basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
1961 – The Edge [Dave Evans], rock guitarist (U2-I Will Follow), born in London, England
1981 – Bradley McIntosh, British pop singer
Famous Deaths
1684 – George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
1940 – Johnny Dodds, American early jazz clarinetist, dies at 48
1982 – Eric Brandon, British racing driver, dies at 62
1993 – Lou van Rees, Dutch impresario, dies at 77
2007 – Ma Lik, Chinese politician (b. 1952)
2009 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish football player (b. 1983)