Historical Events
1941 - 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1966 - Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1975 - Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba
1980 - 6th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds and Jane Fonda win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda and Carol Burnett win (TV)
1983 - House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR
Famous Birthdays
1804 - Alvan Clark, Ashfield Massachusetts, American Astronomer and maker of the Dearborn Observatory telescope, Old University of Chicago, the largest telescope in the world at the time
1907 - Charles Boost, movie critic
1936 - Gabor Szabo, Hungarian jazz guitarist (Perfect Circle)
1945 - Micky Dolenz, actor (Circus Boy)/singer (Monkees), born in Los Angeles, California
1973 - Boris Kodjoe, Austrian model
1976 - Hines Ward, American football player
Famous Deaths
1724 - Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect, dies at about 81
1757 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)
1923 - Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (b. 1835)
1951 - Honeymoon Killers, dies in electric chair
1999 - Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
2007 - Viky Vanita, Greek actress (b. 1948)
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