Historical Events
1808 - Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna
1879 - Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
1929 - US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1958 - Havana Hilton opens in Cuba, later HQ for Fidel Castro
1980 - Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212
2019 - UK Prime Minister Theresa May promises to stand down if parliament accepts her Brexit plan
Famous Birthdays
1921 - Tom Bevill, American Democratic fifteen-term U.S. congressman, born in Townley, Alabama (d. 2005)
1922 - Margaret Stacey, English sociologist who helped shape the distinctively British genre of empirical sociology, born in London (d. 2004)
1926 - Frank O'Hara, American writer and poet, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1966)
1942 - Michael Jackson, British writer and journalist, born in Wetherby, Yorkshire (d. 2007)
1950 - Tony Banks, British progressive rock keyboardist (Genesis - "Supper's Ready"), and film score and classical composer, born in East Hoathly, Sussex, England
1985 - Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel, born in Sollentuna Municipality, Sweden
Famous Deaths
1714 - Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, queen of Denmark and Norway (1670-99), dies at 63
1983 - Janis Ivanovs, Latvian composer, dies at 76
1991 - Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77
2001 - Anthony Dexter [Walter Fleischmann], Canadian actor (The Phantom Planet, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas), dies at 88
2017 - Chelsea Brown, American comedienne (Laugh-in, Matt Lincoln), dies at 74
2020 - Les Hunter, American basketball center (NCAA C'ship 1963, Loyola Ramblers; NBA: Baltimore Bullets; ABA All Star 1968, 69; Miami Floridians), dies from cancer at 77
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