Historical Events
1683 – Expelled Polish and Lotharingians reach Wienerwald
1939 – Nazi Army reaches Warsaw
1944 – US 113th cavalry passes Belgian-Dutch borders
1981 – Vernon E. Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League in the US
1987 – Gary Hart admits on “Nightline” to cheating on his wife
Famous Birthdays
1908 – John Heaton, American sledder (Olympic silver skeleton 1928, 48, bronze bobsled 1932; American team’s flag bearer 1948), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1976)
1931 – Bill Persky, American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (The Dick Van Dyke Show), producer (That Girl), and television director, born in New York City
1943 – Larry Hosford, American folk singer-songwriter (The King Takes The Queen), born in Salinas, California (d. 2016)
1956 – Avi Wigderson, Israeli mathematician and computer scientist (2023 Turing Prize for randomness), born in Haifa, Israel
1962 – Aleta Rzepecki Sill, American bowler (1983 WIBC single), born in Detroit, Michigan
Famous Deaths
1974 – Soltan Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer and People’s Artist of the USSR, dies at 55
1975 – Ethel Griffies, English actress (Billy Liar, Birds), dies at 97
1997 – Burgess Meredith, American stage and screen actor (Mr Novak; Of Mice and Men; Batman (TV) – “The Penguin”; Rocky), dies at 88
2011 – Jean-Paul Jeannotte, Canadian operatic tenor, educator (Lavall, 1964-79), and artistic director (Opéra de Montréal, 1980-89), dies at 95
2024 – Cecília Gáspár, Hungarian soccer midfielder and captain (28 caps; TSV Crailsheim, SGS Essen), dies at 39