Today in History for 26th September 2017:
Historical Events
1733 – France, Spain and Sardinia sign anti-German covenant
1908 – Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader
1948 – Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
1978 – NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms
1991 – 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins
1992 – Tsuruhiko Kiuchi discovers comet Swift-Tuttle
Famous Birthdays
1875 – Edmund Gwenn, Wales, actor (Miracle on 34th Street)
1897 – Wilhelmina J “Willy” Haak, Dutch actress/act teacher (Goethe/Brecht)
1932 – Richard Herd, American actor
1942 – Kent McCord, actor (Officer Jim Reed- “Adam 12”), born in Los Angeles, California
1947 – Graham Faulkner, actor (Brother Sun Sister Moon), born in London, England
1988 – Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
Famous Deaths
1023 – Godfried I, duke of Neth-Lutherans, dies
1468 – Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)
1800 – William Billings, American hymn composer (Rose of Sharon), dies at 53
1951 – Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)
1978 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1993 – James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82