Historical Events
1624 - Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama
1837 - The University of Athens is founded.
1861 - Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seamen
1971 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
1978 - WI all set to lose cricket test v Aust at Kingston till riots end game
2014 - 61st National Film Awards (India): "Ship of Theseus" wins the Golden Lotus
Famous Birthdays
1752 - Braz Francisco de Lima, composer
1815 - Hermanus W Witteveen, Dutch theologist
1844 - Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist
1911 - John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter
1940 - Clemens Westerhof, Dutch football manager
1966 - Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player
Famous Deaths
1567 - Leonhard Paminger, composer, dies at 72
1856 - Adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27
1945 - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66
1961 - Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, dies at 53
1991 - Margaret Tallichet, actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor), dies
1994 - Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch MP (CDA), dies at 63
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