Historical Events
1960 - Australian driver Jack Brabham clinches his second consecutive F1 World Drivers Championship by winning the Portuguese Grand Prix at Boavista
1967 - Radio Scotland and Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
1990 - Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise
2008 - A popular Chinese 1-2 in the 200m butterfly at the Beijing Olympics with Liu Zige swimming world record 2:04.18 to beat teammate Jiao Liuyang
2018 - Italy's Morandi Bridge collapses in Genoa, taking 30 vehicles with it and killing 43
2021 - Calder Fire, near Lake Tahoe, begins in California, goes on to destroy 1000 structures and over 218,000 acres
Famous Birthdays
1552 - Paolo Sarpi, Italian church historian and statesman, born in Venice (d. 1623)
1882 - Gisela Richter, English art historian, born in London (d. 1972)
1937 - Brian Curvis, Welsh boxer and British welterweight champion (1960-1964), born in Swansea, Wales (d. 2012)
1946 - Marga van Praag, Dutch radio hostess, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
1960 - Cecilia Gasdia, Italian soprano, born in Verona, Italy
1983 - Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-British tennis player, born in Kyiv, Ukraine (d. 2014)
Famous Deaths
1928 - Klabund [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Spuk, Rasputin), dies at 37
1961 - Guido Alberto Fano, Italian composer and pianist, dies at 86
1972 - Pierre Brasseur [Espinasse], French actor (Eyes Without a Face, Children of Paradise), dies from a heart attack at 66
1996 - Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (Berlin Philharmonic, 1945-57; Munich Philharmonic, 1979-96), and educator, dies at 84
2008 - Lita Roza, British singer ("How Much is That Doggie in the Window"), dies at 82
2021 - R. Murray Schafer, Canadian composer (Patria), music educator, and environmentalist, dies of complications Alzheimer's disease at 88
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