Today in History for 18th September 2017:
Historical Events
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th and last voyage
1848 – Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner
1914 – Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1914 – General Paul von Hindenburg named commander of German armies on the Eastern Front
1922 – Browns George Sisler’s 41-game hit streak is stopped by NY’s Joe Bush
2012 – The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike.
Famous Birthdays
1344 – Marie Valois, Princess of France (d. 1404)
1752 – Johann Anton Sulzer, composer
1923 – Queen Anne of Romania [Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma], born in Paris (d. 2016)
1941 – Clive Burton, neuropathologist
1941 – Mariangela Melato, actress (Flash Gordon, Summer Night), born in Milan, Italy
1942 – Alex Stepney, English football goalkeeper
Famous Deaths
1939 – Stanis?aw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
1964 – Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881)
1995 – Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73
1995 – Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (b. 1969)
1997 – Harry Brian Boyne, journalist, dies at 87
2013 – Richard C Sarafian, American actor/director, dies from complications from pneumonia at 83