Historical Events
1624 – Dutch Nassau fleet reaches port of Callao in Peru intending to ransack the annual Spanish silver ship convoy, misses them by five days
1909 – American Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6) in NYC
1976 – Leonard Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner’s musical “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” closes at Mark Hellinger, NYC, after 7 performances
1988 – Brazilian musical revue “Oba Oba” closes at Ambassador Theater, NYC, after 46 performances
1989 – US space shuttle STS-30 lands
Famous Birthdays
1906 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (General della Rovere, Open City), born in Rome, Italy (d. 1977)
1911 – Robert Johnson, American blues singer-songwriter, and guitarist (King of Delta Blues Singers), born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi (d. 1938)
1945 – Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, Dutch politician, jurist and first chair of the Authority for Financial Markets (1999-2007), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2020)
1980 – Benny Yau, Canadian TV presenter (What’s On), born in Hong Kong
1981 – Stephen Amell, Canadian actor (Arrow), born in Toronto, Ontario
Famous Deaths
1846 – Giacomo Cordella, Italian composer, dies at 59
1880 – Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (Madame Bovary), dies at 58
1960 – Hugo Alfvén, Swedish violinist, conductor, and composer (Midsommarvaka – Midsummer Vigil), dies at 88
1999 – Dana Plato, American actress (Kimberly-Diff’rent Strokes), dies at 34
2018 – James Scott, American boxer and felon, dies at 71