Historical Events
1908 - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
1908 - 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
1933 - Indianapolis 500: Louis Meyer wins accompanied by riding mechanic Lawson Harris; Mark Billman killed in a crash on lap 79; Lester Spangler and riding mechanic "Monk" Jordan die in a crash on lap 132
1962 - 69 killed in bus crash in Ahmedabad, India
2022 - Frontier becomes the world's fastest supercomputer and first exascale computer, able to perform a quintillion calculations per second, at US's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Famous Birthdays
1757 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, British Prime Minister (Tory: 1801-04), born in London (d. 1844)
1830 - Edward Winslow Hinks, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bucksport, Maine (d. 1894)
1844 - Louis Varney, French composer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1908)
1871 - Amos Rusie, American Baseball HOF pitcher (Triple Crown and NL wins leader 1894; 5 × NL strikeout leader; pitched no-hitter 1891; NY Giants), born in Mooresville, Indiana (d. 1942)
1926 - Edouard Van Remoortel, Belgian conductor (St Louis Symphony, 1958-62), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1977)
Famous Deaths
1469 - Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and US Secretary of Agriculture, dies at 94
2008 - Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (b. 1978)
2019 - Frank Lucas, American drug kingpin (fictionalised in 2007 film "American Gangster"), dies at 88
2021 - Frank Navarro, American college football coach (Williams College, Columbia University, Princeton University), dies at 91
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