Historical Events
1915 - Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
1978 - David Hare's play "Plenty" premieres in London
2021 - Former Minnesota police officer who shot Daunte Wright with a gun instead of a taser is arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter,
2021 - Chicago White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodón no-hits the Cleveland Indians, 8-0 at Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago
2021 - Coinbase becomes the first major cryptocurrency company to trade shares on the New York Stock Exchange
2021 - Human cells grown in monkey cells for 20 days reported by US-Chinese team at the Salk Institute in "Cell"
Famous Birthdays
1721 - William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English army leader, born in London (d. 1765)
1827 - Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist, born in Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Wetherby, Yorkshire (d. 1900)
1931 - John Clarke, American actor (Days of Our Lives -"Mickey"), born in South Bend, Indiana (d. 2019)
1933 - Morton Subotnick, American electronic music composer (Silver Apples of the Moon; A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur), born in Los Angeles, California
1946 - Tom Monteleone, American writer (Dark Star and Illumination)
1966 - David Justice, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
Famous Deaths
1685 - Thomas Otway, English playwright and poet (Venice Preserv'd), dies at 33
1813 - Joachim Nicolas Eggert, Swedish violinist and composer, dies of tuberculosis at 34
1924 - Roland Napoléon Bonaparte, French prince and president of the Société de Géographie, dies at 65
1964 - Rachel Carson, American marine biologist, conservationist and author (Silent Spring), dies of a heart attack at 56
1978 - Joe Gordon, American Baseball HOF 2nd baseman (World Series 1938, 39, 41, 43 NY Yankees; 1948 Cleveland Indians; AL MVP 1942; 9 x MLB All Star), dies of a heart attack at 63
2007 - Don Ho, Hawaiian-American pop and Hawaiian music singer ("Tiny Bubbles"; "Ain't No Big Thing!"), dies of heart failure at 76
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