Historical Events
1943 - German pastor and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrested by the Gestapo
1945 - Japanese army evacuates Rangoon, British Burma
1965 - Australian government announces it would send troops to Vietnam
1981 - NFL Draft: South Carolina running back George Rogers first pick by New Orleans Saints
1990 - Wrecking cranes began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate
1992 - William Finn and James Lapine's musical "Falsettos" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 487 performances
Famous Birthdays
1660 - Matthias Henriksen Schacht, Danish scholar and composer, born in Visby, Gotland, Sweden (d. 1700)
1727 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer (ballet d'action), born in Paris (d. 1810)
1771 - Matthäus Stegmayer, Austrian composer, born in Vienna (d. 1820)
1938 - Bernard "Bernie" Madoff, American fraudster and financier who committed the largest fraud in US history, born in Queens, New York (d. 2021)
1944 - Richard Kline, American actor and director, born in New York City
1986 - Renee Alway, American Model and felon, born in Micigan
Famous Deaths
1935 - Leroy Carr, American blues piano player and singer-songwriter ("How Long, How Long Blues"), dies of nephritis of the kidneys at 30
1937 - Wallace Carothers, American chemist and inventor (nylon), commits suicide at 41
1945 - Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austria English philosopher (Philosophical Investigations), dies at 62
2007 - Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor and stand-up comedian (Mot i brøstet, Olsen-banden), dies of heart failure at 85
2008 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (first synthesised LSD), dies at 102
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