Today in History for 8th October 2022:
Historical Events
1813 – Treaty of Ried between Bavaria and Austria
1982 – Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions
1984 – NBC’s premiere of TV made “The Burning Bed”, based on Francine Hughes
1988 – Fire in Seattle’s Space Needle causes evacuation, $ 2,000 damage
1992 – Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
2018 – Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) by 2040 with dire results
Famous Birthdays
1838 – John Milton Hay, American politician (Union), born in Salem, Indiana (d. 1905)
1919 – Mac Anderson, New Zealand cricketer (played in 1st NZ-Aust Test 1946), born in Westport, West Coast, New Zealand (d. 1979)
1924 – Alphons Egli, Swiss politcian and member of the Swiss Federal Council, born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 2016)
1931 – Bill Brown, Scottish soccer goalkeeper (28 caps; Dundee, Tottenham Hotspur), born in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland (d. 2004)
1971 – Monty Williams, American basketball head coach and executive (Phoenix Suns 2019; New Orleans Hornets / Pelicans 2010-15) and NBA forward/guard (San Antonio Spurs), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia
1981 – Ruby [Rania Hussein Muhammad Tawfiq], Egyptian singer (“Do You Know Why”) and actress (The Baby Doll Night), born in Cairo, Egypt
Famous Deaths
976 – Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen
1094 – St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos ministry in Venice
1974 – Harry Carney, American tenor and baritone jazz saxophonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1927-74), dies at 64
2008 – George E. Palade, Romanian-American cell biologist (ribosomen, Nobel 1974), dies at 95
2008 – Eileen Herlie [Herlihy], Scottish-American actress (All My Children; The Angel with the Trumpet), dies of complications from pneumonia at 90
2011 – Antonio Iglesias Álvares, Spanish pianist, composer, educator and critic, dies at 93