Historical Events
1930 – Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
1972 – Retired passenger liner Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour
1990 – US Supreme Court strikes down Dallas’ ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
1998 – Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving
2001 – Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos
2007 – Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone
Famous Birthdays
1870 – Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge)
1901 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (Blondie), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1973)
1916 – Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker, born in Streatham, London (d. 2004)
1940 – Al Downing, American rockabilly piano player and singer (Big Al and The Chartbusters), born in Centralia, Oklahoma (d. 2005)
1959 – Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician, born in Pitești, Romania
1972 – Jay Powell, American baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins), born in Meridian, Mississippi
Famous Deaths
1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe, United States physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education for the blind, dies at 74
1904 – Alfred Richard, cricketer (6 and 0 in only Test for S Af 1895-96), dies
1929 – Heiner Muller, writer, dies
1941 – Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
2017 – Warren Allen Smith, American gay rights activist and writer, dies at 95