Historical Events
1859 - 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake
1958 - USSR launches Sputnik 3 with two dogs aboard
1979 - 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of them children by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland
2002 - 59th Venice Film Festival: "The Magdalene Sisters" directed by Peter Mullan wins Golden Lion
2004 - China's first ever gold in Olympic Games men's track and field; Liu Xiang wins 110m hurdles in Athens, equalling Colin Jackson's 1993 world record time of 12.91 seconds
2012 - First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity
Famous Birthdays
1847 - Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist and bishop of Bridge, born in Rollegem, Belgium (d. 1931)
1930 - John Daly, British trade union leader
1967 - Bob Nastanovich, American percussionist (Pavement, Silver Jews), born in Rochester, New York
1969 - Avril Haines, American lawyer, 1st female Director of National Intelligence (2021-), born in New York City
1970 - Greg Woodcroft, 52 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympics 1996), born in Hamilton, Ontario
1972 - Mike Smith, Canadian actor
Famous Deaths
1830 - Louis Henri, Prince of Condé, commits suicide at 74
1958 - Ernest Lawrence, American nuclear scientist and inventor (Cyclotron - Nobel 1939), dies at 57
1967 - Brian Epstein, English music entrepreneur and manager (Beatles), dies of an accidental barbiturate overdose at 32
1979 - Bolesław Szabelski, Polish organist and composer, dies at 82
2003 - Jinx Falkenburg [Eugenia], American actress and well-known US cover-girl model throughout 1930s-40s, dies at 84
2011 - Nico Minardos, Greek-American actor (The Twilight Zone; Twelve Hours to Kill), dies at 81
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