Historical Events
1057 - Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium Pope Stephen IX [X]
1798 - Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson further decimates the French fleet
1907 - Legendary pitcher Walter Johnson at 19 begins his 21 year Baseball Hall of Fame playing career with Washington with 3-2 loss v Detroit
1940 - KL-House of saxon and commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia
1952 - 17 year-old future world champion Floyd Patterson wins the gold medal in the middleweight division at the Helsinki Olympic Games with a 1st round KO of Romanian Vasile Tita
2014 - Super Rugby Final, ANZ Stadium, Sydney: NSW Waratahs win their first SR title in a nail-biting 33-32 home effort against New Zealand's Canterbury Crusaders
Famous Birthdays
1818 - Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, born in Soestdijk, Netherlands (d. 1848)
1929 - John Gale, British theatrical producer (Chichester Festival), born in Chigwell, Essex, England
1936 - Christopher Hogg, British industrialist and CEO (Courtaulds and Reuters)
1942 - Isabel Allende, Chilean-American author (The House of the Spirits, City of the Beasts), born in Lima, Peru
1951 - Andrew Gold, American rocker (Lonely Boy), born in Burbank, California (d. 2011)
1969 - Erik Meijer, Dutch soccer player (PSV, Uerdingen), born in Curaçao
Famous Deaths
1895 - Joseph Thomson, Scottish geologist and early African explorer (Thomson's Gazelle), dies of pneumonia at 37
1972 - Paul Goodman, US social critic/writer, dies at 60
1976 - Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American director (M, Metropolis, Fury, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse), dies from a stroke at 85
1979 - Thurman Munson, American baseball catcher (MLB All-Star 1971, 73–78; World Series 1977, 78; AL MVP 1976; NY Yankees), dies in a plane crash at 32
1986 - Roy Marcus Cohn, American lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies of AIDS at 59
2011 - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American immunologist (Nobel 1980 - discovery of genes that regulate immune responses and of the role that some of these genes play in autoimmune diseases), dies at 90
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