Historical Events
1929 – 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8
1944 – Allies occupy Port-en-Bessin Normandy
1963 – 95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2
1965 – US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1991 – Warren Schutte is 1st non American to win NCAA Division 1 golf title
2017 – British General Election results in a hung parliament, Prime Minster Theresa May and the Conservative party lose their majority
Famous Birthdays
1854 – Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician, born in Hawkesbury, Ontario (d. 1921)
1912 – Ian Morrow, company director
1926 – Anatol Vieru, composer
1932 – Ray Illingworth, English cricketer and captain, born in Yorkshire, England
1943 – J C A Barrett, Headmaster (Leys School-Cambridge)
1949 – Hildegard Falck, German FR, 800m runner (Olympic gold 1972)
Famous Deaths
1042 – Harthacnut/Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018) Lambeth
1809 – Thomas Paine, English American writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72
1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (Windhover), dies at 54
1924 – George Mallory, English mountain climber (“because it is there”), dies in a climbing accident at 37 (b. 1886)
1966 – Joseph A. Walker, WWII and NASA test pilot (1st spaceplane flights to edge of outerspace), dies in an aircraft collison at 45
1987 – Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide at 33