Historical Events
1912 - Hobbs and Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
1920 - Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball
1960 - Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner" premieres
1968 - "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3
1989 - Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak v NZ age 16 years 189 days
1990 - Perrier Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water
Famous Birthdays
1862 - W H "Gobo" Ashley, cricketer (7 wkts in 1 Test for South Africa 1889)
1906 - Henry Phelps Brown, British historian and economist, born in Calne (d. 1994)
1927 - Viscount Cowdray, British financier/multi-millionaire
1951 - Bob [Robert] Iger, American entertainment executive (CEO of The Walt Disney Company), born in NYC, New York
1971 - Louie Spicolli [Louis Mucciolo Jr.], American wrestler, born in San Pedro, California (d. 1998)
1976 - Kev Brown, American rapper and hip hop producer, born in Landover, Maryland
Famous Deaths
1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet, dies at 54
1774 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, Bohemian composer, dies at 44
1822 - Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen and Governor of the Austrian Netherlands, dies at 83
1997 - Milton Cato, 1st Prime Minister of San Vincent and the Grenadines (1979-84), dies at 82
2011 - Trevor Bailey, English cricket all-rounder, writer and broadcaster (61 Tests, top score 134, 132 wickets; BBC), dies in a fire in his retirement flat at 87
2013 - Eugenio Trias, Spanish philosopher, dies at 70
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