Historical Events
1501 - Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands
1867 - British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills' proposals on women's suffrage
1870 - Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament abolishes capital punishment in The Netherlands
1895 - 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC)
1961 - Mauritania adopts constitution
1961 - Henzes opera "Elegy for Young Lovers," premieres in Schwetzingen
Famous Birthdays
1759 - William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)
1931 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1952 - Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer
1963 - Dipak Chudasama, cricketer (Kenya opening batsman 1996 World Cup)
1967 - Beate Reinstadler, Stuttgart Ger, tennis star (1989 Futures Israel)
1976 - Tomoya Satozaki, Japanese baseball player
Famous Deaths
1677 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (b. 1612)
1864 - John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70
1926 - Dick Pougher, cricketer (17 and 3-26 in only Test for England 1892), dies
1940 - Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), dies
1996 - George Malcolm Thomson, journalist, dies at 96
2012 - Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, convicted bomber (Pan Am 103), dies from prostate cancer at 60
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