Historical Events
1529 - Conquistador Hernán Cortés granted lands and title of Marquisate of the Oaxaca Valley by Spanish King Charles V
1947 - The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union
1964 - The Beatles' film "A Hard Day's Night" premieres at The Pavilion in London, England
1984 - New Zealand sisters Liz and Rose Signal become the first twins to play in the same cricket Test match, v England at Headingley
1992 - Fay Vincent institutes plans to realign NL
1999 - U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams
Famous Birthdays
1903 - (Axel) Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist (Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology, 1955, for discovery of oxidoreductase enzymes), born in Linköping, Sweden (d. 1982)
1930 - Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (Signs and Wonders), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 2016)
1944 - Byron Berline, American world champion bluegrass fiddle player, born in Caldwell, Kansas (d. 2021)
1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor (Shakespeare in Love, The King's Speech), born in Toowoomba, Queensland
1965 - Glenn Scarpelli, American actor (Alex-One Day At a Time, Fantasy), born in Staten Island, New York
1980 - Eva Green, French actress and model (Kingdom of Heaven, Casino Royale), born in Paris, France
Famous Deaths
1795 - Georg Gottfried Petri, German composer, dies at 79
1871 - Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34
1893 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (Boule de Suif), dies four days after trying to commit suicide by cutting his throat at 42
1973 - Joe E. Brown, American comedian (Buck Circus Hour), dies after long illness at 80
1989 - Janos Kádár, 46th Prime Minister of Hungary 5th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary (1956-58), dies at 77
2015 - Masabumi Kikuchi, Japanese jazz pianist, synthesizer player, and composer, dies of a subdural hematoma at 75
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