Historical Events
1563 - Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
1961 - Smallest NY Knick, 49th St Madison Square Garden crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)
1971 - The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
1989 - NBC's premiere of "Howard Beach: Making A Case for Murder", based on December 1986 murders of black youths by white youths in New York City
1997 - "Diary of Anne Frank" opens at Music Box Theater NYC
2012 - 29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria
Famous Birthdays
1800 - Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen)
1803 - Augustus Zerega diZerega, Martinique, ship owner (Red Z Lane)
1914 - Rudolf Hausner, Austrian artist (d. 1995)
1958 - Bill Roy, Versailles Ill, skeet (Olympics-1996)
1959 - Susan W Krebs, American politician
1971 - Shannon Briggs, American boxer
Famous Deaths
1915 - Gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60
1953 - Daniel Gregory Mason, composer, dies at 80
1973 - Michael O'Shea, actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at 67
2006 - James Kim, American television personality (b. 1971)
2011 - Hubert Sumlin, American blues guitarist (b. 1931)
2012 - Besse Cooper, American supercentenarian and world
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