Historical Events
1897 - Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia
1948 - Hungary's Olga Gyarmati wins the first ever Olympic women's long jump competition at the London Games
1983 - Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Thurston House” is published
1984 - Americans Al Joyner and Mike Conley take the gold and silver medals in the men's triple jump at the Los Angeles Olympics
1985 - Tom Seaver of Chicago White Sox becomes 17th pitcher to win 300 MLB career games, beating New York, 4-1; 54,032 at Yankee Stadium
2002 - Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire.
Famous Birthdays
1825 - Arthur Haygarth, English cricket batsman (Middlesex and Surrey, cricket historian), born in Hastings, Sussex, England (d. 1903)
1921 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Canadian NHL star (Montreal Canadiens, MVP-1947), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2000)
1960 - Tim Winton, Australian author
1960 - Bernard Rose, English director
1992 - Cole Sprouse, American actor (Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Riverdale), born in Arezzo, Italy
1992 - Dylan Sprouse, American actor (Suite Life of Zack and Cody), born in Arezzo, Italy
Famous Deaths
1666 - Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle
1741 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
1927 - John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75
1991 - Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
1999 - Victor Mature, American actor (I Wake Up Screaming, Samson and Delilah), dies from leukaemia at 86
2015 - Gerd Natschinski, German composer, dies at 86
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