Historical Events
1710 – Battle of Brihuega in the War of the Spanish Succession: British General James Stanhope captured by French and Spanish forces
1921 – Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
1974 – Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
1991 – Charles Strouse and Richard Maltby, Jr’s musical “Nick and Nora” opens at Marquis Theater, NYC; runs for 9 performances
1993 – 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
2022 – Iran announces first known execution of a protester from recent anti-government unrest, after convicting a man in a revolutionary court of “moharebeh” (enmity against God)
Famous Birthdays
1715 – Jan Althuysen, Frisian vicar and poet (Frisianche rymlery), born in Franeker, Netherlands (d. 1763)
1888 – Paul Cavanagh, British actor (The Woman in Green, Tarzan and his Mate), born in Chislehurst, England (d. 1964)
1894 – E. C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye), born in Chester, Illinois (d. 1938)
1941 – Geoff Hurst, English soccer striker (49 caps; FIFA World Cup 1966; West Ham United 411 games, Stoke City), born in Ashton-under-Lyne, England
1947 – Gregg Allman, American Hammond organist, guitarist and vocalist (The Allman Brothers Band – “Whipping Post”), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 2017)
1982 – Chrisette Michele [Payne], American RandB and soul singer-songwriter (“Be OK”; “Epiphany”), born in Central Islip, New York,
Famous Deaths
1967 – Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., 1st African-American astronaut and U.S. Air Force major, dies in a crash of an F-104 Starfighter while training at 32
1982 – Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist and pro-democracy advocate murdered by the military
1990 – Martin Ritt, American actor and director (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Slugger’s Wife, End of the Game), dies at 76
1994 – Israel Aaron Maisels, South African lawyer and communal leader, dies at 89
2019 – Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street (1969-2018), dies at 85
2021 – Lars Høgh, Danish soccer goalkeeper (8 caps; OB 603 games) and GK coach (Denmark, Brøndby IF), dies from pancreatic cancer at 62