Historical Events
1862 - American poet Emily Dickinson first corresponds with author and future literary mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a relationship that lasts the rest of her life
1971 - John Kander and Fred Ebbs' musical "70, Girls, 70", starring Hans Conried and Mildred Natwick, opens at Broadhurst Theater, NYC; runs for 35 performances
1991 - East-Europe Bank forms in London
1992 - Lincoln Hospital in Bronx. New York loses its accreditation
2023 - Indian Atiq Ahmed, former lawmaker and convicted criminal, assassinated live on TV along with his brother Ashraf in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, while under police guard
Famous Birthdays
1874 - Johannes Stark, German physicist (Stark Effect; Nobel Prize in Physics -1919), and Nazi sympathizer, born in Schickenhof, German Empire (d. 1957)
1892 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author (The Hiding Place) and Holocaust survivor, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1983)
1940 - Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, English novelist, born in Finsbury, London
1947 - Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician, born in Uddevalla, Sweden
1970 - Flex Alexander, American actor and comedian (Mark 'Flex' Washington in "One to One"), born in New York City, New York
Famous Deaths
1854 - Arthur Aikin, English scientist and writer (b. 1773)
1943 - Raffaele Casimiri, Italian composer, and musicologist dies at 62
1997 - Sam Moskowitz, American writer and historian of science fiction, dies at 76
1999 - Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer, dies at 55
2008 - Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop, dies at 86
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