Historical Events
1668 - Fire in the Hofburg in Vienna, Emperor Leopold I rescued
1861 - Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns
1883 - Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
1958 - Last Municipal arc light at Mission and 25th removed in San Francisco (installed 1913)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - US President George H. W. Bush gives Iraq a 24-hour deadline to withdraw from Kuwait or face a ground war
Famous Birthdays
1915 - Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth)
1916 - William Walsh, academic
1958 - Ria Brieffies, Dutch pop vocalist (Dolly Dots), born in Lutjebroek, Netherlands (d. 2009)
1964 - John Norum, Swedish rocker (Europe), born in Vardø, Norway
1970 - Niecy Nash [Carol Denise Ensley], American actress and comedian, born in Compton, California
1984 - Andre Ward, American professional boxer, unified light heavyweight champion and world’s top pound-for-pound boxer, born in San Francisco, California
Famous Deaths
1607 - Herman Herbertsz, vicar, dies at about 60
1679 - Anne Conway, English philosopher, dies at 47
1855 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician considered one of the greatest of all time (Gaussian distribution, fundamental theorem of algebra), dies at 77
1915 - Robert Smalls, African-American congressman (1875-87), dies at 75
1997 - Oscar Lewenstein, British impresario, dies at 80
2008 - Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and motorsport journalist (b. 1917)
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