1894 – 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
1894 – French captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki, West Africa
1922 – Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite
1945 – Founding of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
1960 – NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP
1978 – Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft
1829 – Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer [OS]
1902 – Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist
1904 – Nnamdi Benjamin “Zik” Azikiwe, politician
1945 – Teenie Hodges [Mabon], American rhythm and blues guitarist (Take me to the River), born in Germantown, TN, (d. 2014)
1968 – Suzi Simpson, Athens Greece, playmate (Jan, 1992)
1983 – Britta Steffen, German swimmer
1806 – Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754)
1964 – Albert Hay Malotte, composer, dies at 69
1972 – Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer, dies at 87
1978 – Claude Dauphin, French actor (Les Miserables, Mado), dies at 75
1985 – John J Sparkmann, (Sen-D-Ala), dies at 85
1993 – Evelyn Venable, model (Columbia Pictures logo), dies of cancer at 80