Historical Events
1950 - WM Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba" premieres in NYC
1954 - WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks
1982 - Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die
1995 - Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
2012 - United Kingdom unemployment rate reaches 17 year high of 8.4%
Famous Birthdays
1760 - Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer
1901 - Christmas Humphreys, England, lawyer/writer/Buddhist (Awakening of Zen)
1908 - Sidney Gilliat, producer
1946 - Clare Short, British MP
1955 - Bev Francis, Australia, world women's power-lifting champion
1976 - Brandon Boyd, American musician (Incubus), born in Van Nuys, California
Famous Deaths
1849 - Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve), dies at 44
1943 - William Victor Harris, composer, dies at 73
1973 - Wally Cox, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48
1996 - McLean Stevenson, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry), dies at 66
1999 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1926)
2016 - George Gaynes, actor (Tootsie, Punky Brewster), dies at 98
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