Historical Events
1453 - Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion
1594 - Groningen surrenders to Count Mauritius/Willem Louis
1922 - 16th Tour de France won by Firmin Lambot of Belgium
1956 - Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
1980 - Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
1987 - Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record)
Famous Birthdays
1773 - Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
1906 - Vladimir Prelog, Sarajevo, Croatian-Swiss Chemist and Nobel Laureate
1931 - Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter
1937 - Dave Webster, Led his football team to a National Championship in 1958
1942 - Madeline Bell, US singer (Black Nativity)
1972 - Trisha Fallon, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-bronze-96)
Famous Deaths
1227 - Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (b. 1148)
1403 - Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (b. 1343)
1944 - Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp
1951 - Robert Flaherty, American documentary filmmaker (Nanook of North), dies at 67
1968 - Henry Hallett Dale, physiologist, dies
2010 - Daniel Schorr, American journalist (b. 1916)
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