Historical Events
1915 – Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York
1953 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution
1961 – World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
1994 – Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)
2014 – Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus
2017 – American economist Richard Thaler is awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics
Famous Birthdays
1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler, born in Parma, Italy (d. 1288)
1884 – Martin Elmer Johnson, American adventurer and filmmaker, born in Rockford, Illinois (d. 1937)
1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist (Pentecostal), born in South-West Oxford, Canada (d. 1944)
1925 – Robert Finch, American politician (8th U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare), born in Tempe, Arizona (d. 1995)
1935 – Paul Beers, Dutch actor (Mother Courage and Her Children)
1935 – Tibor Fátyol, Hungarian composer, born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (d. 2017)
Famous Deaths
1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1912 – Millie and Christine McCoy, American Siamese twins born slaves, die at 61
1990 – Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of heart attack at 83
1994 – Raich Carter, English soccer forward (13 caps; Sunderland, Derby County, Hull C) and manager (Hull C, Leeds, Mansfield Town, Middlesborough), dies from a stroke at 80
1997 – Arthur Tracy, American radio personality (The Street Singer), dies at 98
2016 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (Ashes and Diamonds, Man of Iron), dies at 90