Historical Events
1799 - USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I
1885 - 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1895 - Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
1934 - -51°F (-46°C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record)
1935 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1982 - 34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington
Famous Birthdays
1741 - Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer
1871 - Howard T Ricketts, US pathologist (studied typhus fever)
1876 - Martin Stixrud, Norway, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1920)
1933 - Jo Ann Prentice, LPGA golfer
1950 - Andrew N Meltzoff, developmental psychologist
1968 - Paul Claxton, Vidalia GA, Nike golfer (NIKE Central Georgia Open-38th)
Famous Deaths
1777 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
1936 - Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57
1993 - Kate Wilkinson, actress (Clara-Another World), dies of cancer at 76
1994 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1934)
1996 - Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83
2002 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
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