Historical Events
1241 - Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241)
1812 - US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
1955 - Tappan sells 1st microwave oven
1971 - A man dies two days after being shot during an Irish Republican Army attack on the British Army in Belfast
1988 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
2000 - A team led by Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford discover Orrorin tugenensis, one of the earliest species on the human family tree that lived about 6 million years ago, in the Tugen Hills, Kenya
Famous Birthdays
1802 - Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strong man (d. 1864)
1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (3 Dancers, Guernica), born in Malaga, Andalusia, Spain (d. 1973)
1932 - Lev Nikolayevich Smirenny, cosmonaut
1943 - Roy Lynes, England, rock organist (Status Quo)
1957 - Robbie Macintosh, rock guitarist/vocalist (Pretenders)
1971 - Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
Famous Deaths
1510 - Il Giorgione, [Giorgio del Castelfranco], Italian painter, dies at 32
1902 - Frank Norris, American journalist and writer (McTeague), dies at 32
1957 - Maria "Mary" Beekman, actress (Modern Landhaaien), dies at 73
1959 - Bob Murphy, TV host (RFD America), dies at 42
2012 - John Connelly, English footballer, dies from cancer at 74
2013 - Bill Sharman, American basketball player, dies from complications from a stroke at 87
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