Historical Events
1793 – Pres Washington attends opening of Rickett’s, 1st circus in US
1893 – Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo
1898 – Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry
1954 – Achiel van Acker forms Belgian government
1970 – NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19
1974 – Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
Famous Birthdays
1451 – Isabella I, of Castile, Queen of Spain (1479-1504), patron of Columbus
1923 – Peter Bowring, CEO (C T Bowring)
1939 – John Chilcot, civil servant
1957 – Donald Tusk, Polish Prime Minister
1962 – David Wettlaufer, Kitchener Ont, golfer (Ontario Beefeater-1986, 87)
1964 – Chris Makepeace, Toronto, actor (Vamp, My Bodyguard, Meatballs, Oasis)
Famous Deaths
1945 – Kathe Kollwitz, German graphic artist, dies at 77
1990 – Bertil Unger, actor (Devil and Max Devlin), dies
1994 – Denis Pitts, journalist, dies at 64
1996 – David Shipman, film historian, dies at 63
1996 – Erma Bombeck, humorist (Grass is Greener), dies at 69
2003 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (b. 1933)
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