Historical Events
1597 - 1st Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East
1913 - 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France)
1944 - French General Charles de Gaulle returns to France
1955 - Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria
1994 - Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
2018 - Pope Francis releases letter to all Catholics condemning sexual abuse atrocities and clerical cover-ups "We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them"
Famous Birthdays
1936 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist (Nobel Prize 2000 - discovery and development of conductive polymers), born in Tokyo
1949 - Alan Hardwick, English TV presenter, born in Staveley, Derbyshire, England
1971 - Oronde Gadsden, American NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys), born in Charleston, South Carolina
1974 - Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End), born in Adelaide, Australia
1977 - Ívar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer, born in Reykjavík, Iceland
1978 - Sanna Lankosaari, Finnish ice hockey right wing (Finland, Olympics 1998), born in Kemi, Finland
Famous Deaths
1648 - Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65
1887 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (Les Complaintas), dies at 27
1993 - Sydney Arnold, British comic actor (The Meaning of Life, Top Secret!, Miss Jones and Son), dies at 93
1995 - William Kennedy, baseball player, dies at 76
2007 - Leona Helmsley, American real estate billionaire and convicted of federal income tax evasion, dies at 87
2012 - Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister (1955-58, 1971-84), dies at 96
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