Historical Events
1954 - Phila Eagle Adrian Burk passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash (49-21)
1956 - England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens
1957 - "Copper and Brass" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances
1991 - News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby
1993 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
2003 - The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise.
Famous Birthdays
1626 - Simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt)
1848 - William "Candy" Cummings, created curve ball
1928 - Zacharias J de Beer, South African physician/MP (DP)
1946 - Drusilla Modjeska, Australian writer and editor
1970 - John Mabry, Wilmington DE, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1974 - Ariel Levy, American feminist writer
Famous Deaths
1638 - Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63
1702 - Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies
1763 - Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76
1977 - Robert C "Cal" Hubbard, US baseball player/umpire, dies at 77
1981 - Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895)
1994 - Joan Barbara Grigor, artist, dies at 50
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