Historical Events
1922 – Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent
1967 – ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth disc
1988 – Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)
1988 – France performs nuclear test
2018 – BBC opens its largest news bureau outside the UK in Nairobi, Kenya with 300 journalists
Famous Birthdays
1819 – Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, Czech composer, born in Polepy, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1893)
1891 – Mary Dorna [Mary Jeanette Tenkink-Stoppelman], Dutch author, born in Amsterdam (d. 1971)
1900 – Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas), born in Colorado City, Texas (d. 1972)
1948 – Charles Bradley, American RandB and funk singer, known as ‘The Screaming Eagle of Soul’, born in Gainesville, Florida (d. 2017)
1983 – (Anne) Leilehua Lanzilotti, Kānaka Maoli-American violinist and contemporary classical composer, born in Honolulu, Hawaii
Famous Deaths
1772 – Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749-72), dies at 66
1914 – August Weismann, German biologist, one of the founders of the science of genetics, dies at 80
2001 – Barry Horne, a British animal liberation activist.
2005 – Rod Donald, New Zealand environmentalist (b. 1957)
2024 – Elwood Edwards, American broadcast technician, and the voice of AOL’s catchphrase “You’ve got mail”, dies of complications from a stroke at 74
