Historical Events
1968 – Yale University announces it is going co-educational
1981 – Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins
1981 – 2nd NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 2 returns to Earth
2008 – Eurozone officially slips into recession for the first time since its creation in 1999, pushed down by recessions in Germany and Italy
2014 – American harness racing trainer/driver Dave Palone sets the world record for wins when he drive Missy Tap Tina to the winner’s circle for his 16,754th career victory
2018 – Attempt to move 720,000 Rohingya back to Myanmar from Bangladesh refugee camps amid international criticism. They refuse to go.
Famous Birthdays
1875 – Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general known as the ‘boy general’ during the Philippine-American War, born in Bulakan, Philippines (d. 1899)
1907 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children book author (Pippi Longstocking), born in Vimmerby, Sweden (d. 2002)
1924 – Leonid Kogan, Soviet Russian violinist (Lenin Prize, 1952), born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine) (d. 1982)
1927 – Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (Orquesta Nacionale 1947), born in Lorca, Spain (d. 1997)
1948 – Jacob Kohnstamm, Dutch lawyer and politician (Senator, 1999-2004; Undersecretary of the Interior (1994-98; House of Representatives, 1981-82. 1986-94), born in Wassenaar, Netherlands
1972 – Josh Duhamel, American actor (Transformers, Life as We Know It), born in Minot, North Dakota
Famous Deaths
1692 – Christoph Bernhard, German baroque composer, dies at 64
1977 – A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian guru, founder of International Society for Krishna Consciousness, dies at 81
1981 – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1941)
1992 – Joop Van Nellen, Dutch soccer forward (27 caps; DHC Delft), dies at 82
1994 – Jake Dengel, American actor (Ragtime, Ironweed), dies at 61
1996 – Joseph Bernardin, cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, dies at 68
