Historical Events
1909 - 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes)
1949 - Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
1950 - Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death
1972 - Twelve years after the banning of the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress, a new political movement, the Black People Convention is formed after a three day long conference in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
1973 - A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
1992 - Betsy King wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
Famous Birthdays
1895 - R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome)
1902 - Gunther Anders, writer
1930 - Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1945 - Dimitar Penev, Bulgaria soccer player/union coach (Lokomotiv/CSKA)
1962 - Stein Jorgesen, sprint kayak (Olympics-96), born in Los Angeles, California
1978 - Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
Famous Deaths
1712 - Richard Cromwell, English Lord Protector (1658-59), dies at 85
1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
1966 - D T Suzuki, Zen Buddhism scholar, dies in Tokyo Japan at 96
1990 - João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (b. 1917)
1996 - Gottfried von Einem, composer, dies at 78
2010 - Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (b. 1939)
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