Historical Events
1893 - Panic of 1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange
1925 - John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1941 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
1949 - KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers
1991 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
Famous Birthdays
1919 - George London, bass-baritone (Monterone-Rigoleto), born in Montreal, Quebec
1938 - Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw Poland, director (Hands Up, Deep End)
1948 - Bill Ward, heavy metal drummer (Black Sabbath), born in Birmingham, England
1955 - Robert Feld, Nashville Tn, National Scrabble Champion (1990)
1963 - Simon Rimmer, English chef
1982 - Dieter Brummer, Australian TV Actor
Famous Deaths
1811 - Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)
1900 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
1951 - Leo Diegel, American golfer, dies of throat and lung cancer at 52
1957 - Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer, dies at 74
1992 - Ben Frommer, dies at 78
2011 - Yosef Merimovich, Israeli football player and manager (b. 1924)
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