Historical Events
1864 - -18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia
1901 - The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT
1915 - The League to Enforce Peace is organised at Independence Hall in Philadelphia with William Howard Taft as president; its program anticipates the League of Nations
1954 - CIA exile army lands in Guatemala. Organised by John Foster Dulles and United Fruit Co.
1988 - Soyuz TM-5 launches
1991 - South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws
Famous Birthdays
1823 - John Henry Hobart Ward, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in NYC, New York (d. 1903)
1832 - William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (Crookes-pipe, thallium), born in London (d. 1919)
1895 - Slavko Osterc, Slovenian composer, born in Veržej, Slovenia (d. 1941)
1909 - Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor, born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2004)
1914 - John Hersey, American author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall), born in Tientsin, China (d. 1993)
1981 - Amrita Rao, Indian Bollywood actress (Vivah)
Famous Deaths
1898 - Edward Burne-Jones, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer, dies at 64
1906 - Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player, dies at 33
1973 - Luis Van Rooten, Mexican-born, American actor, author and translator (One Man's Family), dies at 66
1974 - Yadavendra Singh, cricketer (Yuvraj of Patiala, Test for India), dies
2010 - Andy Ripley, English rugby union #8 (24 caps; British Lions 1974), dies from prostate cancer at 62
2020 - György Kárpáti, Hungarian water polo player (Olympic gold 1952, 56, 64), dies at 84
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