Historical Events
1899 - Battle of Ladysmith, Natal: Boers defeat the British, leading to the Siege of Ladysmith
1944 - Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau
1947 - 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva
1978 - Uganda troops attack Tanzania
1988 - Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1994 - Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel's Pentium-processor on Internet
Famous Birthdays
1848 - Zinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian vice-admiral
1912 - Preston Lockwood, English actor (Jeeves and Wooster), born in West Ham, Essex
1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney, founder (Children's Television Workshop)
1936 - Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
1946 - Andrea Mitchell, newscaster (NBC-TV, Summer Sunday USA), born in NYC, New York
1975 - Stephanie Camp, Rapid City SD, Miss America-SD (1997)
Famous Deaths
1915 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada, dies of heart failure at 94
1953 - Emmerich Kálmán, Hungarian composer of operettas, dies at 71
1984 - Mario Gallo, actor (Delvecchio), dies at 61
1996 - Leon Lewis, US radio talk show host (WMCA, 1970-80), dies at 81
2006 - Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
2009 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist (b.1908)
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