Historical Events
1893 - Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
1912 - Captain Robert Scott's expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen
1915 - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens
1962 - Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres in SF
1970 - 357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft
1993 - 14th ACE Cable Awards: Bravo! wins the Golden CableACE for its dedication to films, cultural arts and performing arts programming
Famous Birthdays
1657 - Pieter van Bloemen, [Standaart], Flemish painter, baptized
1733 - Thomas Linley the elder, English composer and tenor, born in Badminton, Gloucestershire (d. 1795)
1924 - Jewel Plummer Cobb, educator/pres (California State U at Fullerton)
1934 - Sydney Phillip Hodkinson, composer
1975 - Rami Yacoub, Swedish songwriter/producer
1980 - Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian ballroom dancer
Famous Deaths
1977 - Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, 1st US execution since 1967
1983 - Doodles Weaver, actor/comedian (Ring of Fire), shoots himself at 71
1995 - Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54
1996 - Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986)
2004 - Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915)
2010 - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)
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