1197 – Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah
1964 – Baseball approves a free-agent draft
1971 – McGurk’s Bar bombing: the UVF explode a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing fifteen Catholic civilians and wounding seventeen others; this was the highest death toll from a single incident in Belfast during ‘the Troubles’
1985 – French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski
1991 – Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her
1994 – Marta Figueras-Dottie/Brad Bryant wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1708 – Marianus Konigsperger, composer
1838 – Melesio Morales, composer
1907 – Jo Boer, Dutch author (Catharina and the Magnolias)
1925 – Maurice Binder, photographer/film titler (James Bond), born in NYC, New York
1967 – Klaus Wilmsmeyer, NFL punter (NO Saints)
1986 – Martell Webster, American basketball player
1371 – Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38
1696 – Empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624)
1935 – Hylton Philipson, cricketer (England keeper in 5 Tests 1892-95), dies
1951 – Pedro Salinas, Spanish writer (Generation of 1927), dies at 61
2007 – Chip Reese, American professional poker player (b. 1951)
2012 – Vasily Belov, Russian author, dies at 80