Historical Events
1597 - Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort
1947 - First telephone conversation between a moving car and a plane
1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
1963 - Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die
1990 - Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon
2013 - Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel win the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on multiscale models for complex chemical systems
Famous Birthdays
1884 - Martin Elmer Johnson, explorer/photographer
1924 - Robert A Rushworth, Madison Maine, test pilot (X-15)
1926 - Daniele Delorme, [Gabrielle Girard], Paris, actress (Pardon My Affair)
1936 - Brian Blessed, Mexborough, Yorkshire, English actor (King Arthur, High Road to China)
1945 - Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
1964 - Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
Famous Deaths
1769 - Marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60
1937 - George AA Alting van Geusau, Dutch min of war (1918-20), dies at 73
1963 - Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer, dies at 85
1990 - Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of heart attack at 83
1995 - John Alfred Scali, journalist/diplomat, dies at 77
1996 - Harvey Vernon, actor (Jasper-Carter Country), dies at 69
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