Historical Events
1790 - Henry James Pye appointed as British Poet Laureate by King George III
1851 - Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1937 - Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire
1959 - Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
1964 - Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sends back 4308 TV pictures
1973 - Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott and Lousma) launched
Famous Birthdays
1804 - Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man is what he eats)
1927 - John Ashbery, American poet (Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror), born in Rochester, New York (d. 2017)
1930 - David "Junior" Kimbrough, American bluesman, born in Hudsonville, Mississippi (d. 1998)
1943 - Larry Elkins, football player (Houston Oilers)
1960 - Yōichi Takahashi, Japanese mangaka of Captain Tsubasa and Hungry Heart Wild Striker
1985 - Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor, born in Yellowknife, Canada
Famous Deaths
450 - Theodosius II, the Younger, Eastern Roman emperor (408-450), dies after a riding accident at 49
1540 - Thomas Cromwell, English chief minister for King Henry VIII, executed for treason and heresy at 54 or 55
1838 - Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Swedish-Finnish composer, dies at 62
1895 - Edward Beecher, American theologian, dies at 91
1996 - Harold Fox, American fashion designer and musician, dies at 86
2007 - Jim LeRoy, Airshow pilot (b. 1961)
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