1922 – Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage
1939 – First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber prototype
1965 – Supremes release “My World is Empty Without You”
1966 – Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Mass)
1988 – Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
1997 – Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
1678 – Gotthard Wagner, German composer, born in Erding (d. 1738)
1880 – Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer
1881 – Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968)
1949 – Syed Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer)
1967 – Tony Tolbert, NFL defensive end (Dallas Cowboys)
1979 – Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed-martial arts fighter
1975 – Euell Gibbons, American outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets (b. 1911).
1986 – Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54
1995 – Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine, dies at 86
2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
2007 – Phil O’Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
2009 – Akmal Shaikh, British drug trafficker, executed by lethal injection in the People’s Republic of China (b. 1956)