Historical Events
1855 - Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
1861 - Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time; Jefferson Davis elected President of Confederacy (US Civil War)
1939 - Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort
1974 - Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months
1991 - Baseball's Hall of Fame board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose, due to his betting on games while a player and manager
2004 - Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room
Famous Birthdays
1842 - Georg Brandes, [Morris Cohen], Danish literary historian and critic
1904 - Predrag Milosevic, composer
1906 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (champ-1933)
1937 - Collin Wilcox, Highlands NC, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird)
1972 - Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1972 - Kelvin Anderson, CFL running back (Calgary Stampeders)
Famous Deaths
1816 - Meingosus Gaelle, composer, dies at 63
1895 - Faustina Hasse Hodges, composer, dies at 71
1968 - Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
2006 - Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)
2007 - Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
2016 - Leslie Bassett, American classical composer (Variations for Orchestra - Pulitzer Prize 1966), dies at 93
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