Historical Events
1796 - Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleveland
1942 - 4th Russian army forms with 80 tanks
1981 - Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome, Italy court to life
1992 - Soyuz TM-15 launches
2012 - At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China
2012 - 141st British Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 273 at Royal Lytham and St Annes Golf Club
Famous Birthdays
1873 - Ettore Pozzoli, composer
1909 - Licia Albanese, American operatic soprano (NY Met Opera), born in Bari, Italy (d. 2014)
1940 - Yuriy Klimov, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)
1940 - Alex Trebek, Canadian-American TV game host (High Rollers, Jeopardy), born in Sudbury, Ontario
1962 - Steve Albini, American writer, recording engineer and musician (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac)
1992 - Selena Gomez, American actress and singer, born in Grand Prairie, Texas
Famous Deaths
1525 - Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
1864 - William Henry Talbot Walker, Confederate gen-mjr, dies in battle at 47
1922 - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
1990 - Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (Mordskab), dies of cancer at 70
2001 - Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
2009 - Richard M. Givan Supreme court chief justice (b. 1921)
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