Historical Events
1774 - American Continental Congress orders discouragement of entertainment
1921 - Germany and Allies comes to an agreements over reparation payments in a meeting at Wiensbaden
1973 - OPEC oil embargo begins
1975 - Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning
1977 - Plane chartered by rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd runs out of fuel and crashes in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi. Six people are killed, including band members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gains, and Cassie Gaines, and road manager Dean Kilpatrick
1990 - Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
Famous Birthdays
1751 - Hendrik van Stralen, Dutch politician
1882 - Bela Lugosi [Blaskó], Austrian actor (Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space), born in Lugos, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1956)
1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (A Cop), born in Paris, France
1925 - Art Buchwald, American columnist and author (Have I Ever Lied to You), born in Mt Vernon, New York (d. 2017)
1943 - Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano, born in Zagreb, Croatia
1968 - Raymond Biggs, Canadian CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders), born in Toronto, Ontario
Famous Deaths
1896 - Félix Tisserand, French Astronomer, dies at 51
1929 - Rudolf Kittel, German theologist (Psalms), dies at 76
1967 - Yoshida Shigeru, Japanese politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Japan (1946-54), dies at 89
1970 - Patrick Wymark [Cheeseman], British actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies of a heart attack at 44
1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist (quantum electrodynamics, Nobel 1933), dies at 82
1986 - Samora Machel, President of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53
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