Historical Events
1973 - Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 v WI Georgetown
1990 - BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
1994 - 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
1996 - Pakistan beats Sri Lanka to win Cricket's Singer Cup in Singapore
2017 - Smurfs: The Lost Village is released in the United States
2021 - UK COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 (Alpha) now the dominant variant in the US according to the CDC, as 108 American have received at least one vaccine dose
Famous Birthdays
1908 - Le Duan, Vietnamese politician
1932 - Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues singer
1933 - Wayne Rogers, American actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls), born in Birmingham Alabama (d. 2015)
1936 - Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician and close adviser to Saddam Hussein, born in Tel Keppe, Iraq (d. 2015)
1938 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane - "White Rabbit"; New Riders of the Purple Sage), born in NYC, New York (d. 2005)
1973 - Brett Tomko, American baseball player
Famous Deaths
1766 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch classicist, dies at 81
1768 - Michel Mathieu, composer, dies at 78
1900 - Frederick Edwin Church, American romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School), dies at 73
1958 - Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, Ukrainian composer, dies at 58
1991 - Ruth Page, American ballet dancer and choreographer (Diaghilev, Pygmalion), dies at 92
1992 - Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72
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