Historical Events
1898 - Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0
1930 - British troops battle pro-independence revolutionaries in the Jalalabad hills near Chittagong in Bengal province, British India leaving 80 troops and 12 revolutionaries dead.
1959 - Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings
1969 - 1st human eye transplant performed
1981 - Almost 1 million West German metal workers go on strike
1994 - Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500
Famous Birthdays
1872 - Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (d. 1954)
1891 - Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)
1904 - [Julius] Robert Oppenheimer, head of Manhattan (A-bomb) Project, born in NYC, New York
1923 - Peter Bowring, CEO (C T Bowring)
1954 - Joseph Bottoms, Santa Barbara Cal, actor (Surfacing, Blind Date)
1957 - Alan Campbell, Homestead Fla, actor (E Z-3's a Crowd)
Famous Deaths
296 - Pope Caius, Bishop of Rome 283-296
1830 - Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary/historian, dies at 69
1833 - Richard Trevithick, inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62
1890 - Magnus Huss, Swedish Physician who coined the word alcoholism and was the first to define it as a disease, dies at 82
1992 - Youcca Troubatzkoy, actress (Flower of the Night), dies
2013 - Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, dies from a heart attack at 72
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