Historical Events
1657 - Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
1934 - Babe Ruth hits 700th career home run against Detroit
1985 - Doctors at Bethesda Naval hospital remove two small benign polyps from US President Ronald Reagan's colon
2003 - Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: Craig Stadler wins his first of two Champions Tour major titles by three strokes over Tom Kite, Jim Thorpe, and Tom Watson
2021 - Violent protests and looting following the jailing of Jacob Zuma leave 337 dead in South Africa, with more than 200 shopping malls set on fire
Famous Birthdays
1770 - Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman, born in Moscow (d. 1837)
1946 - Andrew Pryce Jackman, British progressive rock keyboardist, arranger, and composer (The Syn), born in England (d. 2003)
1949 - Helena Fibingerová, Czech athlete (World C'ship gold shot put 1983; Olympic bronze 1976; 3 x WR), born in VÃceměřice, Czechoslovakia
1953 - Violeta Dinescu, Romanian pianist, composer (Tabar), and music professor, born in Bucharest, Romania
1994 - Ridge Canipe, American actor (Walk the Line; A Single Man; Music Within), born in Laguna Beach, California
Famous Deaths
1842 - Jesse Bennett, American physician who performed 1st successful US Caesarean (1794), dies at 72
1860 - John Ackersdijk, Dutch state house builder, dies at 69
1863 - John S. Bowen, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 32
1955 - Beulah Ecton Woodard, African-American sculptor, dies at 59
1960 - Joy Davidman, American poet, writer and wife of C. S. Lewis, dies at 45
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