Historical Events
1922 - Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage
1939 - First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber prototype
1965 - Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You"
1966 - Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Mass)
1988 - Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
1997 - Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
Famous Birthdays
1678 - Gotthard Wagner, German composer, born in Erding (d. 1738)
1880 - Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer
1881 - Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968)
1949 - Syed Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer)
1967 - Tony Tolbert, NFL defensive end (Dallas Cowboys)
1979 - Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed-martial arts fighter
Famous Deaths
1975 - Euell Gibbons, American outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets (b. 1911).
1986 - Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54
1995 - Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine, dies at 86
2004 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
2007 - Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
2009 - Akmal Shaikh, British drug trafficker, executed by lethal injection in the People's Republic of China (b. 1956)
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