Historical Events
1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf
1905 – Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages
1936 – American fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a panda cub (Su Lin) in China – becomes 1st live panda cub to enter the US
1971 – David Storey’s “Changing Room” premieres in London
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2015 – “Reclining Nude” by Italian artist Modigliani fetches 2nd highest auction price at $170.4m
Famous Birthdays
1802 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher and abolitionist, born in Albion, Maine (d. 1837)
1880 – Rudolf Karel, Czech composer (Three Hairs of the Wise Old Man), born in Pilseň, Czech Republic (d. 1945)
1922 – Raymond Devos, Belgian-French humorist, born in Mouscron, Belgium (d. 2006)
1941 – Tom Fogerty, American rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival), born in Berkeley, California (d. 1990)
1955 – Don Schiff, American guitarist, born in Wilmington, Delaware
1956 – Eve de Castro-Robinson, New Zealand classical composer (Other Echoes; A Chaos Of Delight), music director (Karlheinz Company), and educator (University of Auckland), born in London, England
Famous Deaths
1208 – Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1976 – Billy Halop [William Halop Cohen], American actor (Angels with Dirty Faces, All in the Family), dies of a heart attack at 56
2003 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist and CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes), dies of complications from lymphocytic leukemia at 65
2018 – Ken Howell, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 57