Historical Events
1502 - Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut, India for the second time.
1944 - Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau
1947 - Darius Milhaud's 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus," premieres in Paris
1963 - Morocco and Algeria sign cease fire
1969 - WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, NH (IND) 1st broadcast
2004 - Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Lone Star Park; winners: Ghostzapper, Wilko, Ashado, Better Talk Now, Oujja Board, Sweet Catomine, Singletary, Speightstown
Famous Birthdays
1895 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist (Nobel Prize 1939 in Physiology or Medicine - first commercially available antibiotic and marketed under the brand name Prontosil), born in Lagow, Brandenburg (d. 1964)
1945 - Glenn Poshard, American politician (Rep-D-Illinois), born in Herald, Illinois
1953 - Kathleen Cody, American actress (Charley and the Angel), born in The Bronx, New York
1970 - James Pedro, American lightweight judoka (Olympic bronze 1992, 96), born in Danvers, Massachusetts
1970 - Patrice Tardif, Canadian NHL center (LA Kings), born in Thetford Mines, Quebec
1983 - Trent Edwards, American football player (Buffalo Bills), born in Los Gatos, California
Famous Deaths
1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
1944 - Paul Ladmirault, French composer, dies at 66
1956 - PÃo Baroja y Nessi, Spanish Basque writer, author of over 100 novels (The Struggle for Life, Zalacain the Adventurer), dies at 83
1996 - John Young, Scottish actor and TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 80
2008 - Pedro Pompilio Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
2018 - Hardy Fox, American member of avant-garde band The Residents, dies at 73
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