Historical Events
1829 – French government of Polignac forms
1911 – Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435 and comes into effect in 1913
1913 – Richard Corfield’s “Camel Corps” opens against the “Mad Mullah” in Burao, Somalia
2013 – Retired Washington Post journalist and editor Ben Bradlee is named as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama
2018 – US State Department imposes new sanctions on Russia for nerve agent attack in Britain
Famous Birthdays
1852 – Barend Barendse, Dutch actor and director (Heilig recht), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1935)
1950 – Willie Hall, American drummer (Blues Brothers Band), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1960 – Cheyne Horan, Australian surfer (World C’ship runner-up 1978, 79, 81, 82), born in Sydney, Australia
1987 – Katie Leung, Scottish actress (Harry Potter love interest), born in Dundee, Scotland
1988 – Danilo Gallinari, Italian NBA basketball player (NY Knicks, Denver Nuggets), born in Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Italy
Famous Deaths
1824 – Friedrich August Wolf, German philologist (Prolegomena), dies at 65
1911 – William P. Frye, American congressman and senator (1881-1911), dies at 80
1987 – Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician, dies at 83
1993 – Lou van Rees, Dutch jazz and pop music impresario, dies at 77
1996 – Nevill Francis Mott, British physicist (1977 Nobel Prize for Physics for work on amorphous semiconductors), dies at 90