Historical Events
1961 – The Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein after a lunch time performance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England
1968 – Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting lead a Loyalist march to the Diamond area of Derry, North Ireland
1985 – Russia’s Garry Kasparov, at 22, becomes the youngest World Chess Champion with a 13-11 win over fellow countryman Anatoly Karpov
1992 – Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcast in Las Vegas, Nevada on KFBI
1999 – TAESA Flight 725 crashes a few minutes after leaving Uruapan Airport en route to Mexico City, killing 18 people
Famous Birthdays
1898 – Leonard Carmichael, American Psychologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1953-64), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1973)
1943 – Lee Graziano, American rock drummer (American Breed), born in Chicago, Illinois
1951 – Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, Dutch medical astrologist and founder (Vakvereniging Medical Astrology), born in Amsterdam (d. 1993)
1964 – Robert Duncan McNeill, American television director and actor (Lt. Tom Paris in “Star Trek: Voyager”), born in Raleigh, North Carolina
1978 – Sisqó [Mark Althavean Andrews], American singer (Dru Hill, Unleash the Dragon), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Famous Deaths
1801 – Carl Stamitz, German violin virtuoso, and composer, dies at 56
1809 – Paul Sandby, English cartographer and landscape painter, dies at about 78 [exact birthdate uncertain, c. 1731]
1862 – John Bordenave Villepigue, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 32
2004 – Edward “Ed” Kemmer, American actor (Space Patrol, Lux Video Theatre), dies at 83
2016 – Zoltán Kocsis, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer, dies of cancer at 64