Historical Events
1933 - Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling, the national-socialist party of Norway
1948 - Soviet Union recognizes Israel
1959 - Sanctuary of Christ the King inaugurated, a 28 meter (92 ft) high monument and shrine overlooking Lisbon, Portugal by sculptor Francisco Franco de Sousa
1973 - Five British Army soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby-trap bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone
1992 - LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Bethesda CC: Betsy King wins her 5th major title, 11 strokes ahead of runners-up JoAnne Carner, Liselotte Neumann and Karen Noble
1996 - Venezuelan Alicia Machado, aged 18, crowned 45th Miss Universe
Famous Birthdays
1803 - Robert Smith Surtees, British novelist (Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities), born in The Riding, England (d. 1864)
1889 - Alfonso Reyes, Mexican writer (SimpatÃas y diferencias) and diplomat (Higenia Cruel), born in Monterrey, Mexico (d. 1959)
1943 - Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (d. 2005)
1945 - Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer (brilliant Indian leggie 1964-79), born in Mysore, Karnataka
1966 - Mark Schmocker, US team handball goalie (Olympics 1996)
1971 - Bill Lindsay, Big Fork, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
Famous Deaths
1809 - Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (invented percussion as a diagnostic technique), dies at 86
1838 - René Caillé, French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu, dies at 38
1947 - George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
2000 - Donald Coggan, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (1974-80), dies at 90
2007 - Lloyd Alexander, author (b. 1924)
2014 - Gerald Edelman, American biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies from natural causes at 84
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