Historical Events
1569 - King Philip II forms Inquisition in South America
1812 - Poet Lord Byron (6th Baron Byron) makes his maiden speech in House of Lords
1884 - Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
1943 - Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)
1969 - Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah)
1976 - World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)
Famous Birthdays
1814 - Gardner Quincy Colton, Georgia, Vermont, USA, American lecturer who was the first to use nitrous oxide as an anesthetic in dentistry
1875 - Erkki Gustav Melartin, composer
1891 - Ann Little, American actress (d. 1984)
1896 - Harold Hoffman, South Amboy NJ, (Gov-NJ)
1923 - Keefe Brasselle, actor (Be Our Guest), born in Elyria, Ohio
1972 - Aftab Habib, cricketer (Leicestershire righty batsman 1996)
Famous Deaths
999 - Boleslaus II of Bohemia
1317 - Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)
1749 - Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer, dies at 76
1915 - Wladyslaw Gorski, composer, dies at 68
1974 - Arline Judge, actress (Age of Consent), dies at 61
2015 - Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, English publisher/multi-millionaire, dies of a heart attack at 84
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