Historical Events
1672 - William III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland and Zealand
1864 - Battle of Monocacy, Maryland, confederate forces led by Lieutenant General Jubal Early
1917 - British battleship HMS Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow (the result of an internal explosion of faulty cordite), killing 804
1934 - SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps
1982 - Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner La, killing 153
2017 - English international footballer Wayne Rooney announces he will leave Manchester United after 13 years to rejoin his original club, Everton
Famous Birthdays
1848 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma, born in Florence, Tuscany (d. 1907)
1900 - Robert Oboussier, Swiss composer, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1957)
1925 - Peter Ludwig, German businessman and art collector, born in Koblenz, Germany (d. 1996)
1950 - Gwen Guthrie, American Rand*B, soul, and dance singer-songwriter ("Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent"), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1999)
1975 - Jack White [Gillis], American musician (The White Stripes; Racontuers), born in Detroit, Michigan
1991 - Spencer Elden, Baby and model on Nirvana (band)'s Nevermind album
Famous Deaths
1228 - Stephen Langton, English Cardinal and scholar, Archbishop of Canterbury (1207-1228), negotiated the Magna Carta, thought to have divided Bible into chapters (b. c. 1150)
1855 - FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, British Army officer (commander of the British forces during the Crimean War), dies of dysentery in Crimea at 66
1856 - James Strang, American Mormon splinter group leader, dies of his wounds three weeks after being attacked by disaffected members at 43
1875 - Francis Preston Blair Jr, famed St Louis lawyer, dies at 54
1957 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer, dies at 80
1977 - Loren C Eiseley, US anthropologist/writer (Animal Secrets), dies at 69
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