Historical Events
1953 - Typhoon destroys one third of Nagoya, Japan
1959 - Braves and Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68)
1982 - Cards clinching NL East title
1987 - Ryder Cup Golf, Muirfield Village GC: Europe beats US, 15-13; after 13-0 unbeaten record spanning 60 years, US loses for first time on home soil
1996 - Baltimore Oriole Roberto Alomar spits in face of umpire John Hirschbeck
2001 - At its two-day meeting in Vienna, OPEC decides to keep its production quotas unchanged at 23.2 million barrels per day, despite crude oil being at its lowest price levels since 1999
Famous Birthdays
1911 - Peter Doig, British Labour Party politician, born in Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland (d. 1996)
1919 - Jayne Meadows, American actress (Dark Delusion, David and Bathsheba) and wife of Steve Allen, born in Wuchang, Hubei, China (d. 2015)
1940 - Josephine Barstow, British opera soprano singer, born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
1953 - Benjamin Gene Brown, 4X400 runner (Olympic gold 1976), born in San Francisco, California
1957 - Richard Vagg, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics 1996)
1991 - Simona Halep, Romanian tennis player (French Open 2018, Wimbledon 2019), born in Constanța, Romania
Famous Deaths
1831 - Joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen, murdered at 55
1944 - Aristide Maillol, French painter and sculptor (Seated Woman), dies in car crash at 82
1948 - Frank Cellier, British actor (Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade), dies from ill health at 64
1972 - S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
1977 - Jock Hutchison, Scottish golfer (PGA C'ship 1920, British Open 1921), dies at 93
1993 - Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38
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