Historical Events
1586 - Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp
1935 - Detroit Lions win NFL championship
1961 - Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
1982 - Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
1986 - 150 killed during race riot in Karachi
2005 - Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry.
Famous Birthdays
1904 - Kermit Bloomgarden, producer (Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man)
1907 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (Brasilia), (d. 2012)
1955 - Paul Simonon, English pop bassist (Clash-Havana 3 AM)
1971 - Boudewijk Pahlplatz, soccer player (FC Twente, PSV)
1976 - Aaron Miles, American baseball player
1979 - Eric Young, Canadian professional wrestler
Famous Deaths
1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1984 - Frank Spedding, Canadian Chemist whose uranium extraction process helped make possible the first atomic bomb, dies at 82
1989 - Edward Underdown, English actor (b. 1908)
1994 - Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist, dies at 88
1997 - Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98
2003 - Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1947)
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