Historical Events
1948 - 30th PGA Championship Men's Golf, Norwood Hills CC: Ben Hogan scores a convincing 7 and 6 win over Mike Turnesa in the Tuesday final for his 2nd PGA crown
1956 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas
1981 - Daniel Goodwin scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours
1991 - Stanley Cup Final, Metropolitan Sports Center, Bloomington, MN: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minnesota North Stars, 8-0 for a 4-2 series win; Penguins' first Final series appearance
2000 - 53rd Cannes Film Festival: "Dancer in the Dark" directed by Lars von Trier and starring Björk (Best Actress) wins the Palme d'Or
2011 - 46th Academy of Country Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert and Brad Paisley win
Famous Birthdays
1865 - Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxony (1904-18), born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1932)
1883 - Elsa Maxwell, American writer (Jack Paar Show), born in Keokuk, Iowa (d. 1963)
1932 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (Up Close and Personal, True Confessions), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 2003)
1937 - Mark Shields, American political journalist and commentator (PBS NewsHour, 1988-2020; CNN Capitol Gang, 1998-2005), born in Weymouth, Massachusetts (d. 2022)
1937 - (Trevor) Tom Phillips, English visual artist, printmaker and collagist, born in Clapham, England (d. 2022)
1959 - Cathryn Harrison, English actress (Old Woman in Black Moon), born in London, England
Famous Deaths
1914 - Paolo Giorza, Italian-Australian composer, dies at 81
1981 - Roy Brown, American RandB singer, songwriter ("Good Rockin' Tonight"), dies of a heart attack at 55
1981 - Fredric Warburg, British publisher (Animal Farm) and author, dies at 82
1996 - Bernard Sendall, British deputy director general of British Independent Television Authority and author (Independent Television in Britain), dies at 83
2003 - Sloan Wilson, American novelist ("The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit"; "A Summer Place"), dies at 83
2011 - Leonora Carrington, British-Mexican Surrealist artist, dies aged 94
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