Historical Events
1855 – American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor
1877 – American Humane Association organizes in Cleveland
1932 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin expels Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev from the Communist Party after a power struggle
1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
1999 – The last flight of the US aircraft Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird”
Famous Birthdays
1942 – Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister (2003-2006), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2012)
1954 – James Fearnley, British celtic-punk accordionist (The Pogues – “The Irish Rover”), born in Worsley, Greater Manchester, England
1957 – Don Garber, American sports executive (Commissioner USMLS 1999- ), born in New York City
1974 – Kavika Pittman, American defensive end (Dallas Cowboys), born in Frankfurt, Germany
1981 – Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor (Brad-Home Improvement), born in Aurora, Colorado
Famous Deaths
1963 – Thurlow Lieurance, American composer (By the Waters of Minnetonka; Sad Moon on Falling Leaf), ethnomusicologist (Indigenous peoples), and educator, dies at 85
1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1963-64), dies at 92
1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries, dies at 85
2022 – Margie Masters, Australian golfer (Western Open runner-up 1966), dies at 87
2023 – (Charles) “Buck” Trent, American country and bluegrass banjoist, dobro player, and singer (Hee Haw), dies at 85