Historical Events
1872 - Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam
1963 - 20 black students enter public schools in Alabama
1980 - Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick
1988 - Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minnesota), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989
2004 - "Crash" directed by Paul Haggis and starring Don Cheadle and Sandra Bullock premieres at the Toronto Film Festival (Best Picture 2006)
2016 - US Open Women's Tennis: Angelique Kerber beats Karolína Plíšková 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 to become first German player to win the event since Steffi Graf in 1996
Famous Birthdays
1866 - Tor Aulin, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1914)
1897 - David L. Snell, American pianist and composer for films (MGM Studio), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1967)
1908 - Raymond Scott [Harry Warnow], American composer ('The Toy Trumpet'), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1994)
1935 - Mary Oliver, American poet (1984 Pulitzer Prize), born in Maple Heights, Ohio (d. 2019)
1968 - Guy Ritchie, British film director (Sherlock Holmes), born in Hartfield, England
1986 - Hiroki Uchi, Japanese Idol singer, model and actor, born in Habikino, Japan
Famous Deaths
918 - Baldwin II, Count of Flanders, dies at about 53
1308 - Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (1404-19), assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France at 48
1954 - Peter Anders, German opera singer, dies at 46
1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist who demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937), dies at 83
1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer and film director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at 70
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