Historical Events
1665 - 1st edition of "London Gazette" published as "The Oxford Gazette"
1921 - Hungary passes a law invalidating the Habsburg line of succession to the throne
1963 - Carole Joan Crawford, 20, wins Miss World
1979 - Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award
1985 - Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
2012 - 48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala
Famous Birthdays
1839 - Henry Holmes, composer
1933 - George Tibbits, composer
1944 - Jim Watkins, actor (Jerry-Magician), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1965 - Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
1968 - Russ Springer, Alexandria VA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1969 - Michelle Clunie, American actress
Famous Deaths
1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist, dies at 76
1983 - David Alexandrovich Toradze, composer, dies at 61
1991 - Tom of Finland [Touko Laaksonen], Finnish fetish artist, dies at 71
1995 - John Patrick, American screenwriter and playwright (Pulitzer Prize 1954), commits suicide at 90
2015 - Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-born American actor (Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), dies of cancer at 68
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