Historical Events
1945 – Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (SD) intelligence agency executes 116 prisoners, and one reluctant police official, at de Woeste Hoeve, Netherlands in response to raid by resistance forces two days earlier
1966 – An IRA bomb destroys Nelson’s Column in Dublin
1986 – Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley’s Comet at 109,800 km
1986 – 27th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 83-72
1987 – 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425
1998 – 45th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #4 North Carolina beats #1 Duke, 83-68
Famous Birthdays
1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, US 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1935)
1922 – Cyd Charisse [Tula Finklea], American dancer and actress (Singin’ in the Rain), born in Amarillo, Texas (d. 2008)
1947 – Mike Allsup, Modesto Ca, rock guitarist (Three Dog Night)
1971 – Kit Symons, Welsh footballer
1974 – Steve Sarkisian, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1976 – (Gareth) “Gaz” Coombes, British rock guitarist and singer-songwriter (Supergrass – “Alright”), born in Oxford, England
Famous Deaths
1640 – Guillaume van Messaus, composer, dies at 50
1817 – Wentworth Cheswell, American auditor, teacher, Revolutionary War messenger, 1st African American elected to public office, dies of typhus fever at 70
1853 – Edward John Dent, British clockmaker to Queen Victoria and commissioned to make Big Ben, London (completed after his death by his son Frederick Dent), dies at 62
1941 – José Serrano Simeón, Spanish composer, dies at 67
1971 – Harold Lloyd sr, American silent film actor, comedian, and director (Why Worry, Safety Last!), dies of cancer at 77
1977 – Henry Hull, American actor (Werewolf of London, Boys Town), dies at 86