Historical Events
1835 - HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin aboard arrives in New Zealand
1917 - 1st NHL game played on artificial ice in Toronto
1926 - National Football League Championship: Frankford Yellow Jackets (14-1-2) win first past the post title
1976 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev receives his 5th Order of Lenin
1980 - Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts
2016 - At least 48 people die after drinking bath lotion in Irkutsk, Siberia, thinking it contained alcohol
Famous Birthdays
1819 - James Clifford Veatch, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Elizabeth, Indiana (d. 1895)
1837 - John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
1861 - Italo Svevo, Italian writer (La Coscienza di Zeno), born in Trieste Austria (d. 1928)
1916 - Hal Hastings, American orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), born in NYC, New York (d. 1973)
1925 - Robert Sherman, songwriter (Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book), born in NYC, New York (d. 2012)
1957 - Doug Johnson, Canadian rock keyboardist (Loverboy - "Working For The Weekend"), born in Surrey, British Columbia
Famous Deaths
1815 - Robert Hudson, British tenor, organist, and composer, dies at 83
1933 - George Jackson Churchward, British mechanical engineer (Chief of Great Western Railway Chief, 1902-22), truck and killed by a Paddington to Fishguard express train at 76
1951 - Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at 51
1998 - Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932)
2002 - Will Hoy, English auto racer (British Touring Car C'ship 1991), dies from a brain tumour at 50
2017 - Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, American professional baseball player at 1st female pitcher to play in the Negro Leagues, dies from heart complications at 82
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