Historical Events
1841 - Dion Boucicault's stage comedy "London Assurance" opens at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London
1845 - James K. Polk inaugurated as 11th US President
1970 - Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1995 - Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
2023 - Andrew Tate's legal team states he has a dark spot on his lung, sparking rumors about lung cancer
Famous Birthdays
1889 - Oren E. Long, American politician and 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (1951-3), born in Altoona, Kansas (d. 1965)
1907 - Maria Branyas, 2nd oldest American-Catalan supercentenarian (117 years, 168 days), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2024)
1909 - Harry B. Helmsley, American billionaire real estate developer (purchased Empire State Building, 1961), born in New York City (d. 199)
1938 - Alpha Condé, Guinean politician (President of Guinea, 2010-21), born in Boke, Lower Guinea
1973 - Jasper Somsen, Dutch jazz double bassist, composer and producer, born in was born Bennekom, Netherlands
Famous Deaths
1193 - Saladin, 1st Sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, dies of fever at about 55
1868 - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
1927 - Ira Remsen American chemist, Johns Hopkins first Chemistry professor, dies at 81
1945 - Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
2007 - Natalie Bodanya [Bodanskaya], American soprano, dies at 98
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