Historical Events
1776 – Adam Smith publishes the influential economics book “The Wealth of Nations”
1809 – A group of conspirators break into Gripsholm Castle and imprison King Gustav IV Adolf and appoint Charles XIII in his place as Regent of Sweden
1922 – Eugene O’Neill’s “Hairy Ape” premieres in NYC
1984 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute is founded in Washington, D.C.
2020 – National one-day women’s strike held in Mexico to protest high rates of femicide (more than 10 women murdered every day)
Famous Birthdays
1891 – José P. Laurel, 3rd President of the Philippines (1942-44), born in Tanauan, Batangas (d. 1959)
1892 – Frank Puglia, Italian actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book), born in Sicily, Italy (d. 1975)
1930 – Thomas Schippers, American conductor (Amahl and Night Visitors), born in Kalamazoo, Michigan (d. 1977)
1937 – Grahame Chevalier, South African cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1970, 0 and 0*, 5-100), born in Cape Town, South Africa (d. 2017)
1981 – Clay Rapada, American baseball player, born in Chesapeake, Virginia
Famous Deaths
1688 – Claude Mellan, French engraver, cartoonist and painter, dies at 89
1980 – Olga Chekova, actress (Moulin Rouge, Pawns of Possession), dies at 82
2010 – Doris Haddock, American political activist (b. 1910)
2011 – Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (youngest female Olympic Games medalist in an individual event [12] bronze 200m breaststroke 1936), dies at 86
2012 – Peter Bergman, American comedian, dies from leukemia at 72