Historical Events
1789 - Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
1910 - Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila
1950 - South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
1970 - "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hits #1 in UK
1978 - Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
2000 - Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
Famous Birthdays
1888 - Fernando A Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet
1903 - Philipp Kutev, composer
1938 - Peter Michael, English electronic manufacturer (UEI, Paintbox)
1966 - Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
1968 - Deniece Peterson, rocker (5 Star-Silk and Steel)
1975 - Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
Famous Deaths
1898 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
1920 - Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at peace confer
1943 - Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
1952 - Max Pulver, writer, dies
1965 - Martin Buber, German/Israel philosopher/zionist/theologist, dies at 87
2012 - William S. Knowles, American chemist and Nobel laureate, dies from complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 95
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