Historical Events
1276 - Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V
1967 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
1971 - "Alias Smith and Jones" premieres on ABC TV
1996 - 53rd Golden Globes: "Sense and Sensibility", Nicolas Cage, and Sharon Stone win
1999 - In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the US Coast Guard intercepts a ship carrying 4,300 kg of cocaine
2013 - 1 person is killed and 15 are injured by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Indonesia
Famous Birthdays
1918 - Richard D. Winters, American war hero
1920 - Donald Cuthbert Coleman, British economic historian (d. 1995)
1969 - Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
1971 - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
1974 - Rove McManus, Australian television host and comedian
1990 - Jacob Smith, American actor
Famous Deaths
1851 - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49
1881 - Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)
1903 - Hermanus J A M Schaepman, Dutch clergyman/politician, dies at 58
1931 - Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer, conductor and pianist, dies at 67
1959 - Lamar Stringfield, composer, dies at 61
2008 - Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)
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