Historical Events
1863 - Battle of Charleston, South Carolina failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
1959 - Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1968 - Riots continue in over 100 US cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1994 - 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
1996 - Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya hits fastest ODI fifty off 17 balls v Pakistan, Singapore
2018 - Vegas Golden Knights suffer a 7-1 end of regular season defeat at Calgary but finish with an NHL expansion team record 51 victories; previous record 33 by Anaheim Ducks and Florida Panthers 1993-94
Famous Birthdays
1930 - Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (Manuel in Fawlty Towers), born in Berlin (d. 2016)
1952 - Bruce Gary, American rock drummer (The Knack - "My Sharona"), born in Burbank, California (d. 2006)
1954 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong martial arts actor (Rumble in the Bronx), born in Hong Kong
1957 - Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor
1958 - Tony Aire, rocker (Adventures - "Sea of Love")
1977 - Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress
Famous Deaths
1925 - Saint Tikhon of Moscow [Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin], 11th Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia, dies at 60
1994 - Golo Mann, German-American historian (Antisemitism), dies at 85
1997 - Georgy Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 6), dies of a heart attack at 61
2002 - John Agar, American actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, Fort Apache), dies at 81
2013 - Andy Johns, British sound engineer and record producer (Humble Pie; Free; Joe Satriani), dies at 62
2020 - Harv Schmidt, American college basketball coach (University of Illinois 1967-74), dies at 83
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