Historical Events
1872 - HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise
1920 - NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81
1926 - Gas refrigerator patented
1944 - Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago
1968 - Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823 from the University of Cincinnati
2005 - U.S. debut of the second part of two-part TV biopic miniseries "Pope John Paul II" on CBS
Famous Birthdays
1598 - Giovanni Bernini, Naples, Kingdom of Naples, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy), (d. 1680)
1847 - Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
1935 - Jean-Claude Casadesus, composer
1948 - Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina (Baterina No Habataki)
1954 - Mike Nolan, rocker
1969 - Sabine Hack, West Germany, tennis star
Famous Deaths
1498 - Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist
1811 - Ignaz Spangler, composer, dies at 54
1962 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), dies at 67
1980 - Darby Crash, rocker, dies at 22
1982 - Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st US prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
1991 - Michael Taylor, Male Model (b. 1913)
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