Historical Events
1829 - French government of Polignac forms
1911 - Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435 and comes into effect in 1913
1913 - Richard Corfield's "Camel Corps" opens against the "Mad Mullah" in Burao, Somalia
2013 - Retired Washington Post journalist and editor Ben Bradlee is named as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama
2018 - US State Department imposes new sanctions on Russia for nerve agent attack in Britain
Famous Birthdays
1852 - Barend Barendse, Dutch actor and director (Heilig recht), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1935)
1950 - Willie Hall, American drummer (Blues Brothers Band), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1960 - Cheyne Horan, Australian surfer (World C'ship runner-up 1978, 79, 81, 82), born in Sydney, Australia
1987 - Katie Leung, Scottish actress (Harry Potter love interest), born in Dundee, Scotland
1988 - Danilo Gallinari, Italian NBA basketball player (NY Knicks, Denver Nuggets), born in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Italy
Famous Deaths
1824 - Friedrich August Wolf, German philologist (Prolegomena), dies at 65
1911 - William P. Frye, American congressman and senator (1881-1911), dies at 80
1987 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician, dies at 83
1993 - Lou van Rees, Dutch jazz and pop music impresario, dies at 77
1996 - Nevill Francis Mott, British physicist (1977 Nobel Prize for Physics for work on amorphous semiconductors), dies at 90
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