Historical Events
1943 – Meat (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI’s), butter and cheese rationed in US during WW II
1961 – After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted of treason in Pretoria
1971 – 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
1975 – Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
1992 – Ice Pairs Championship in Oakland, California won by Mishuktienok and Dmitriev (CIS)
1996 – 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men win
Famous Birthdays
1869 – Aleš Hrdlička, Austro-Hungarian anthropologist and curator (US National Museum), born in Humpolec, Austria-Hungary (d. 1943)
1927 – Arthur Ravenel Jr, American businessman and politician (Rep-R-South Carolina), born in Charleston, South Carolina
1927 – John R. Vane, English pharmacologist (Nobel 1982), born in Tardebigg, Worcestershire (d. 2004)
1938 – Bert de Vries, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (CDA), born in Groningen, Netherlands
1946 – Billy Thorpe, British-Australian musician (Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs – “I Told The Brook”, “Mashed Potato”; solo – “Children of the Sun”), born in Manchester, England (d. 2007)
1974 – Marc Gené, Spanish auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 2009), born in Sabadell, Spain
Famous Deaths
1058 – Stephen IX [Frederik van Lotharingen], 1st Belgium Pope (1057-58), dies
1578 – Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
1953 – Arthur Fields [Abraham Finkelstein], American singer-songwriter (Aba Daba Honeymoon), dies in a fire at his nursing home residence at 68
1970 – Lev Kuleshov, Russian filmmaker and film theorist (Po Zakonu, founder of Moscow film school), dies at 71
1980 – Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 74
2001 – Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)