Today in History for 6th August 2017:
Historical Events
1774 – Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY
1861 – The British annex Lagos, Nigeria
1944 – Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
1961 – Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
1964 – Prometheus, the world’s oldest tree, is cut down in Nevada US
1979 – Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel
Famous Birthdays
1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
1881 – Leo Carrillo, actor (American Empire, Cisco Kid), born in Los Angeles, California
1926 – Clem Labine, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1939 – William “Sonny” Sanders, US singer (Rayber Voices)
1953 – Iqbal Qasim, cricketer (Pakistani slow lefty in the 80’s)
1965 – Mark Speight, British television presenter (d. 2008)
Famous Deaths
1799 – Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74
1959 – Preston Sturges, [Edmund Biden], US director/screenwriter, dies at 60
1964 – Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71
1986 – Emilio Fernandez, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82
1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris
1996 – Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist, dies at 83