Historical Events
1761 - Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten
1958 - USSR reduces army to 300,000
1971 - -40°F (-40°C), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record)
1974 - Gasoline rationed in Netherlands
2011 - "The King's Speech", starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, and Helena Bonham Carter, is released in United Kingdom
2012 - Hot air balloon crashes in Carterton, New Zealand, killing 11
Famous Birthdays
1796 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)
1813 - Ann Rutledge, said to be Abraham Lincoln's true love, born in Henderson, Kentucky (d. 1835)
1845 - Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18)
1950 - Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
1966 - Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer
1985 - Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver
Famous Deaths
1936 - Howard Francis, cricketer (2 Tests S Af v Eng 1898-99, 39 runs), dies
1944 - Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (b. 1874)
1957 - Al White, choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies
1967 - Sid Emery, cricket leg-spinner (NSW and Aus, 5 wkt in 1912 series), dies
2004 - Oswald Garrison Villard Jr., American Engineer (over-the-horizon radar), dies of pneumonia at 87
2015 - Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer (Bohin Manor) and film director, dies at 88
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