Historical Events
1855 - American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor
1877 - American Humane Association organizes in Cleveland
1932 - Soviet leader Joseph Stalin expels Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev from the Communist Party after a power struggle
1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
1999 - The last flight of the US aircraft Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird"
Famous Birthdays
1942 - Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister (2003-2006), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2012)
1954 - James Fearnley, British celtic-punk accordionist (The Pogues - "The Irish Rover"), born in Worsley, Greater Manchester, England
1957 - Don Garber, American sports executive (Commissioner USMLS 1999- ), born in New York City
1974 - Kavika Pittman, American defensive end (Dallas Cowboys), born in Frankfurt, Germany
1981 - Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor (Brad-Home Improvement), born in Aurora, Colorado
Famous Deaths
1963 - Thurlow Lieurance, American composer (By the Waters of Minnetonka; Sad Moon on Falling Leaf), ethnomusicologist (Indigenous peoples), and educator, dies at 85
1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1963-64), dies at 92
1999 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries, dies at 85
2022 - Margie Masters, Australian golfer (Western Open runner-up 1966), dies at 87
2023 - (Charles) "Buck" Trent, American country and bluegrass banjoist, dobro player, and singer (Hee Haw), dies at 85
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