Historical Events
1848 - Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent v England)
1888 - Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall
1924 - Muslim-Hindu rebellion in Delhi, India
1946 - Kingman Douglass ends term as deputy director of CIA
1960 - "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is first published by J. B. Lippincott and Co.
1995 - All star MVP: Jeff Conine (Florida Marlins)
Famous Birthdays
1801 - John Hill Hewitt, American songwriter (A Minstrel's Return from the War), born in NYC, New York (d. 1890)
1886 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1930 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic, born in the Bronx, New York (d. 2019)
1942 - Tomasz Stańko, Polish trumpeter (Astigmatic), born in Rzeszów, Poland (d. 2018)
1951 - Lawrence J Delucas, PhD/astronaut (STS 50), born in Syracuse, New York
1975 - Lil' Kim [Kimberly Denise Jones], American rapper, born in Brooklyn, New York
Famous Deaths
1593 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1st surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn)
1874 - Xavier de Mérode, Belgium minister to the Pope in Rome, dies at 54
1948 - Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semite theologist (Die Oden Salomons), dies at 59
1993 - Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WWII), dies at about 83
2006 - Barnard Hughes, American stage and screen actor (Doc; Tron; Best Friends; Where's Poppa?), dies at 90
2010 - Bob Sheppard, American public address announcer (MLB: NY Yankees 1951–2007; NFL: NY Giants 1956–2006), dies at 99
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