Historical Events
1721 – Robert Walpole becomes England‘s 1st Lord of the Treasury
1962 – Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
1966 – Luna 10 orbits Moon
1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to “Vietnamize” the war effort.
1983 – 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1985 – Players’ Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games
Famous Birthdays
1715 – William Watson, English physician and scientist (d. 1787)
1812 – Louisa Maria, Queen of the Belgians (1832-50/wife of Leopold I)
1874 – Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer
1903 – Peter Huchel, writer
1937 – William Gaunt, Leeds England, actor (Champions)
1942 – Billy Joe Royal, Valdosta Ga, country singer (Down in the Boondocks)
Famous Deaths
1691 – Jean Petitot, Swiss enamel painter (b. 1608)
1882 – Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St Joseph Mo by Robert Ford
1950 – Kurt Julian Weill, German composer (Dreigroschenoper), dies at 50
1966 – Russel Crouse, US stagewriter (Life with Father), dies at 73
1987 – Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
1993 – Eduardo Cabellero Calderon, Colombian writer/diplomat, dies at 83
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at HistoryOrb.Com – This Day in History