Today in History for 22nd August 2017:
Historical Events
565 – St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness
1454 – Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1914 – Canada’s Finance Act, 1914, receives assent
1945 – Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
1950 – Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competitor in a US national tennis competition
1986 – “Stand By Me” film based on the novella by Stephen King, directed by Rob Reiner starring Wil Wheaten, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O’Connell is released
Famous Birthdays
1681 – Pierre Danican Philidor, composer
1867 – Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
1896 – Laurence McKinley Gould, Lacota Michigan, American Geologist and Polar Explorer who was chief scientist and second-in-command on the first expedition to the interior of Antarctica in 1929
1943 – Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
1956 – Paul Molitor, infielder (Mn Twins, 1993 World Series MVP), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota
1981 – Alex Holmes, American football player
Famous Deaths
1680 – Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80), dies at 67
1818 – Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85
1831 – John White, English organist and violinist, dies at 52
1901 – Gunnar Wennerberg, composer, dies at 83
1914 – Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian religious figure
2016 – Toots [Jean-Baptiste] Thielemans, Belgian-American jazz musician and composer, dies at 94