Historical Events
1701 – William Penn presents Charter of Privileges
1910 – William H. Frost receives the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer
1950 – A US aircraft shoots down a North Korean jet in the Korean War, the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history
1953 – Salazar’s party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal
1964 – IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion
1979 – The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed.
Famous Birthdays
1572 – John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, Duke of Prussia (1618-19), born in Halle, Germany (d. 1619)
1592 – Domenico Mazzocchi, Italian Baroque composer, born in Civita Castellana, Italy (d. 1665)
1884 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (inkblot test – Rorschach test), born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1922)
1912 – June Havoc [Ellen Evangeline Hovick], Canadian-born American stage and screen actress, born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2010)
1966 – Michael Soles, CFL fullback (Montreal Alouettes), born in Pointe-Claire, Canada
1968 – Parker Posey, American actress (Tess Shelby-As the World Turns), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Famous Deaths
1833 – Maximilian Stadler, Austrian pianist and composer and Benedictine monk, dies at 85
1905 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter, dies at 35
1941 – Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
1968 – Wendell Corey, American actor (Rear Window, 11th Hour, Peck’s Bad Girl), dies from a liver ailment at 54
1994 – Michael O’Donoghue, American comedy writer (SNL), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 54
2004 – Chandler Harper, American golfer (PGA C’ship 1950), dies of pneumonia at 90