Historical Events
456 - Saint Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
1804 - High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil
1972 - The regular MLB season fails to open due to a player strike for the first time in history; 86 games are lost before the labor dispute settled
1987 - Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
1992 - Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea
2012 - International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to censorship
Famous Birthdays
1622 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (Viviani's theorem), born in Florence, Italy (d. 1703)
1761 - Sybil Ludington, American revolutionary heroine (rode to alert militia), born in Kent, New York (d. 1839)
1923 - Stanley Orme, British Labour Party politician, born in Sale, Cheshire
1928 - Peter Moore, British academic (Professor of Statistics at London Business School) (d. 2010)
1942 - Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director, born in Newport, Wales
1984 - Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress
Famous Deaths
1896 - John Rogers Thomas, Welsh-American baritone and composer of popular, classical, and sacred music, dies at 66
1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist, dies at 78
1976 - Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (b. 1891)
1994 - Kurt Cobain, American grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide at 27 by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun
2002 - Layne Staley, American rock singer and guitarist (Alice in Chains - Dirt), dies at 34
2012 - Jim Marshall, British business man and electric guitar amplifier pioneer known as "The Father of Loud", dies at 88
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