From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@alt119.net.remove-mcc-this

Historical Events

1693 - Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages

1750 - Carlo Goldoni's "Il Teatro Comico" premieres in Venice

1945 - Indonesian army forms

1957 - 11th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum: NY Rangers left wing Dean Prentice scores a goal and has 2 assists as All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens, 5-3

1976 - MLB expansion draft: Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays pick 30 unprotected AL players; Ruppert Jones OF (Seattle) and Bob Bailor OF (Toronto) are first picks

1992 - NY senator Alphonse D'Amato filibusters for 15 hours 20 mins

More Historical Events ¯
Famous Birthdays

1458 - Kazimierz de Saint, Polish ruler/saint

1836 - George Washington Gordon, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army),
born in Pulaski, Tennessee (d. 1911)

1884 - Hendrik W Tilanus, Dutch artillery officer/politcian (CHU 1939-63)

1954 - Duncan Regehr, Alberta Canada, actor (Wizards and Warriors)

1967 - Guy Pearce, Anglo-Australian actor

1967 - Ellie Gibson, golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One-5th), born in Corpus Christi, Texas

More Famous Birthdays ¯
Famous Deaths

1837 - Hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 54

1878 - George B. Vashon, American, lawyer, academic and poet, first African American lawyer, dies of yellow fever at 54

1941 - Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, dies at 84

1997 - Andrew Keir, Scottish character actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt, Catholics), dies at 71

2007 - Walter Kempowski, German writer (German Chronicle), dies at 78

2015 - Chantal Akerman, Belgium film director (Akermania, Je Tu II Elle), dies at 65

More Famous Deaths ¯

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/historyorb/todayinhistory/~3/h74UB5DIWRQ/5

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)