Historical Events
1576 - Peace of Beaulieu and Paix de Monsieur
1877 - Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris)
1946 - 1st radar installed aboard a commercial ship
1950 - South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races
1962 - Arnold Wesker's "Chips with Everything" premieres in London
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Famous Birthdays
1755 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1912 - Frederick Rand Weissman, philanthropist
1968 - Adrian Cooper, NFL tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1978 - Adamantia Kontogiorgi, Greek actress
1980 - Sybille Bammer, Austrian tennis player
1984 - Pierre-Marc Bouchard, hockey player
Famous Deaths
1896 - Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation (b. 1815)
1902 - Julius Sterling Morton, who started Arbor Day, dies at 72
1936 - Karl Pearson, mathematician, dies
1998 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer (b. 1925)
2002 - Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b. 1916)
2009 - Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model (b. 1983)
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