Historical Events
1888 - Baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" 1st published by the San Francisco Examiner
1896 - British naval officer David Beatty is seconded to the Egyptian government and appointed second in command of the river flotilla
1941 - German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports
1966 - Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford and Cernan)
1968 - Poor Peoples March on Washington, D.C.
1992 - Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support
Famous Birthdays
1746 - James Hook, English composer, born in Norwich (d. 1827)
1773 - Michael Gottard Fischer, German composer and organist, born in Alach (d. 1829)
1866 - George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
1936 - David Nicholls, English Anglican priest, theologian and political theorist, born in Woking, England (d. 1996)
1966 - Bill Janovitz, American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist (Buffalo Tom), music writer, and real estate agent, born in Queens, New York City
1987 - Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
Famous Deaths
1928 - Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
1967 - Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal (WWII), dies at 76
1970 - Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker and politician (co-founder German Democratic Party), dies at 93
2009 - Koko Taylor [Cora Walton], American blues singer known as the "Queen of the Blues", dies of complications from surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding at 80
2011 - Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist and right-to-die activist, dies of a thrombosis at 83
2017 - Jimmy Piersall, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1954, 56; his bipolar disorder subject book and film, "Fear Strikes Out"), dies at 87
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