Historical Events
1742 - Battle of Bloody Marsh-Spanish assault on Simons Island, Georgia
1899 - American boxer James J. Jeffries KOs defending champion Bob Fitzsimmons of England in 11th round in Brooklyn, New York to win the lineal World Heavyweight title
1914 - Pittsburgh Pirate baseball shortstop Honus Wagner is 2nd player to get 3,000 hits
1963 - 1st Sunday night game in baseball SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0
1983 - 56th National Spelling Bee: Blake Giddens wins spelling purim
2019 - General strike begins in Khartoum, Sudan, as a protest against ruling military generals by the Sudanese Professionals Association
Famous Birthdays
1791 - John Howard Payne, American actor, playwright (Fair Warning), author and creator of the hit song "Home! Sweet Home!", born in NYC, New York (d. 1852)
1893 - Irish Meusel, American baseball left fielder (World Series 1921, 22; NL RBI leader 1923; Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants), born in Oakland, California (d. 1963)
1921 - Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
1928 - Geraint Gruffydd, Welsh scholar (University of Wales), born in Tal-y-bont, Wales (d. 2015)
1948 - Nathaniel Rosen, American cellist (Tchaikovsky-gold-1978), born in Altadena California
1986 - Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor (Degrassi: The Next Generation), born in Mississauga, Ontario
Famous Deaths
630 - Shahrbaraz, General and King of Sasanian Persian Empire (630), killed after 40 days in power
1717 - Jeanne Guyon, French mystic, dies at 69
1912 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian actor and playwright (O Noapte Furtunoasa), dies at 60
1994 - Lloyd Lindroth, American harpist known as 'The Liberace of the Harp', dies at 63
2014 - Bob Welch, American baseball pitcher (AL Cy Young Award 1990; Oakland A's; World Series 1981, 89, 2001), dies from a broken neck at 57
2017 - Adam West [William West Anderson], American actor (Batman, Last Precinct) dies from leukemia at 88
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