1495 – French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown
1858 – Dion Boucicault’s “Jessie Brown” premieres in NYC
1892 – Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
1934 – “It Happened One Night” directed by Frank Capra and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert opens at NY’s Radio City Music Hall (Outstanding Production 1935)
1955 – British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sets sail
1996 – STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit
1842 – Carl Rosa, founder (Rosa opera company), born in Hamburg, Germany
1883 – Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (Snow White), born in Avondale, Cincinnati (d. 1940)
1911 – Bill Baker, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1933 – Bobby Smith, English footballer
1968 – Jayson Williams, NBA center (NJ Nets)
1971 – Jason Marshall, Cranbrook, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1071 – Arnulf III, earl of Flanders/Hainault (Arnulf I), dies in battle
1912 – Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree’s Handatlas), dies at 76
1959 – Helen Parrish, actress (Hour Glass), dies of cancer at 36
1977 – Edith Barrett, actress (Molly and Me, Ghost Ship), dies at 64
2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
2016 – Sonny James [James Loden], American country music singer-songwriter (Young Love), dies at 87