Historical Events
1730 - Voltaire's tragedy "Brutus" premieres in Paris
1958 - Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) gains autonomy from France
1968 - Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill sacks Home Affairs Minister, William Craig
1990 - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
2007 - Two car bombs go off at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings.
2017 - Attempted suicide terrorist bomb attack in New York wounds 3, bomb fails to fully detonate
Famous Birthdays
1843 - Robert Koch, German pioneering bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel Prize 1905), born in Clausthal, Hanover (d. 1910)
1912 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (Marriage Italian Style, Doctor Zhivago), born in Magenta, Lombardy (d. 2007)
1948 - Chester Thompson, American session and touring drummer and percussionist (Frank Zappa; Genesis; Chester Thompson Trio), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1954 - Vicki Randle, American singer-songwriter, born in San Francisco, California
1964 - Cosy Sheridan, American singer (The Pomegranate Seed), born in Concord, New Hampshire
1989 - Kellie Harrington, Irish boxer (lightweight Gold Medal 2021 Tokyo Olympics), born in Dublin, Ireland
Famous Deaths
1610 - False Dmitry 2, Tsar of Russia, murdered
1756 - Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress as the spouse of Emperor Charles VII, dies at 55
1918 - Ivan Cankar, Slovene author, poet, novelist and playwright (Erotika, The Bailiff Yerney and His Rights), dies of pneumonia at 42, a complication of the Spanish flu
2004 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach, dies at 87
2007 - Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian child actress (Now and Then), dies of a drug overdose at 26
2014 - Hans Wallat, German opera conductor, dies at 85
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