Historical Events
1869 - Canada's Hamilton Football Club plays its 1st game
1962 - Ballon d'Or: Dukler Prague midfielder Josef Masopust wins award for best European football player; beats Benfica striker Eusébio and FC Köln defender Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
1969 - House of Lords votes to abolish the death penalty in England, Wales and Scotland (Northern Ireland 25 July 1973)
1989 - "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years
1996 - The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect.
2020 - US Vice President Mike Pence receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine live on TV
Famous Birthdays
1837 - Adolf Daens, Flemish priest, politician and founder of the Daensist movement, born in Aalst, Belgium (d. 1907)
1907 - Bill Holland, American auto racer (d. 1984)
1946 - Steven Spielberg, American director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1966 - Mille Petrozza, German singer (Kreator)
1983 - Ady Barkan, American lawyer and activist (Medicare for all)
1995 - Barbora Krejčíková, Czech tennis player (French Open singles 2021; French Open doubles 2018, 21; Wimbledon 2018, 22; US Open and Australian Open 2022; 3 x Australian Open mixed doubles), born in Brno, Czech Republic
Famous Deaths
1577 - Anna, Duchess of Saxony, German born 2nd wife of Prince William of Orange (divorced and imprisoned for adultery), dies at 32
1894 - Erastus Flaval Beadle, American publisher (Beadle's Dime Novels), dies at 73
1911 - Alberto Randegger, Italian composer, dies at 79
1980 - Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM (1964-80), suffers heart attack at 76
1994 - Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64
2020 - Tim Severin, British author and explorer who replicated historic voyages, dies at 80
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