Historical Events 421 - Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded 1961 - 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah‚ 127-120 in quadruple overtime 1968 - Members of the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) disrupt a meeting of Londonderry Corporation to protest at the lack of housing provision in the city‚ Northern Ireland 1979 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova retains her WTA Tour Championship with a 6–3‚ 3–6‚ 6–2 win over American teenager Tracey Austin in NYC 1985 - Edwin Meese III takes office as US Attorney General 2019 - Further power blackouts in Caracas‚ Venezuela‚ prompt government to tell workers and students to stay at home More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1532 - Pietro Pontio‚ Italian composer (Ragionamento di Musica)‚ born in Parma‚ Duchy of Milan (d. 1596) 1762 - Francesco Giuseppe Pollini‚ Italian composer‚ singer‚ and pupil of Mozart‚ born in Ljubljana ‚ Habsburg Empire (d. 1846) 1903 - Gertrude "Binnie" Barnes‚ actress (Last of the Mohicans‚ 3 Musketeers)‚ born in London‚ England (d. 1998) 1930 - David Burge‚ American pianist‚ composer and conductor‚ born in Evanston‚ Illinois (d. 2013) 1960 - Idy Chan Yuk-Lin‚ Hong Kong actress 1982 - Álvaro Saborío‚ Costa Rican footballer More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1223 - Afonso II‚ 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23)‚ dies at 36 1692 - Gerardus Blasius‚ Flemish anatomist‚ dies at about 66 1712 - Nehemiah Grew‚ English naturalist (b. 1641) 1983 - Martha Sleeper‚ actress (Spitfire)‚ dies of a heart attack at 72 1991 - Marcel Lefebvre‚ French Catholic prelate (b. 1905) 2020 - Mark Blum‚ American actor (Desperately Seeking Susan‚ Blind Date‚ Presidio)‚ dies of COVID-19 complications at 69 More Famous Deaths »