Historical Events
1918 - National Urban League forms
1932 - The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands burns down.
1955 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Open
1971 - Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
1982 - The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is released.
2012 - Rangers F.C. owner, Craig Whyte, is banned for life from any involvement in Scottish football
Famous Birthdays
1746 - Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794)
1813 - Stephen Arnold Douglas, (Little giant), US senator (Lincoln debates)
1924 - Chuck Harmon, American baseball player
1938 - Russell Hillhouse, under-sect Scottish Office
1939 - William Hagerty, editor (People)
1953 - James Russo, actor (My Own Private Idaho, China Girl), born in NYC, New York
Famous Deaths
1774 - Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter, dies
1853 - Auguste Laurent, chemist, dies
1945 - Albrecht Haushofer, writer, dies at 42
1960 - Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at 71
1993 - Bertus Aafjes, poet/writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78
2011 - John Sullivan, British comedy writer (b. 1946)
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