Historical Events
1804 - The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony's only significant convict uprising.
1868 - 30th Grand National: George Ede victorious aboard Irish 9/1 shot The Lamb; horse wins second GN in 1871
1881 - California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1970 - Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1977 - 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico
2020 - "Once in a century" winter in Moscow the hottest in 140 years, with 7.5° C (13.5° F) above average temperatures and virtually no snow
Famous Birthdays
1754 - Benjamin Waterhouse, American physician co-founder of Harvard Medical School, and smallpox vaccine pioneer, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1846)
1765 - Charles Dibdin, British composer, author (Sea Songs), and actor, baptized in Hampshire, England (d. 1814)
1877 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (gas mask and traffic signal), born in Claysville, Kentucky (d. 1963)
1917 - Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1932 - Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American custom hot rod car designer, born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 2001)
1947 - Jan Garbarek, Norwegian jazz saxophonist, born in Mysen, Norway
Famous Deaths
1733 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander, dies at 76
1858 - Matthew C. Perry, Commodore of the United States Navy who opened Japan to Western influence and trade, dies of rheumatism at 63
1866 - Alexander Campbell, Irish-American clergyman and Founder of Disciples of Christ, dies at 77
1989 - James A. Parsons, American metallurgist and inventor (stainless steel), dies at 88
2007 - Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian, assassinated by Communist rebels at 41
2012 - Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer, dies in a traffic collision at 33
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