Historical Events
1862 - Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving and Printing
1910 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troops to British India
1939 - 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
1951 - 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
1972 - Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
1995 - Muslim fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead
Famous Birthdays
1882 - Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philologist (Language boundary)
1898 - William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist (textiles)
1944 - Karen Grassle, Berkeley, California, American actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairie)
1946 - F Xaver Kroetz, writer
1951 - César Cedeño, Dominican baseball player
1966 - Nancy O'Dell, American reporter and television personality
Famous Deaths
1719 - Giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66
1899 - Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies
1915 - George Mimot, physician (Nobel-1934), dies
1964 - Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)
1997 - Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic, dies at 71
2003 - Tom O'Higgins, Irish Chief Justice (b. 1916)
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