1727 - Wreck of Dutch ship Zeewijk on the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, with the loss of 72 lives, 82 survivors eventually build a boat and sail to Batavia (Jakarta)
1958 - HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
1970 - Harry Blackmun sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
1985 - NBA Championship, Boston Garden: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 111-100 for a 4 games to 2 series victory; Finals MVP: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
1993 - Tickets for Indians 1st season in Jacobs Field go on sale
1810 - Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, German composer, one of the founders of the Vienna Philharmonic, born in Königsberg, Prussia (d. 1849)
1943 - Charles Saatchi, Iraqi English magnate and art collector (founded advertising company Saatchi and Saatchi), born in Baghdad, Iraq
1956 - Patricia Cornwell, American author (Kay Scarpetta crime novels), born in Miami, Florida
1961 - Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter and playwright (A Few Good Men; The West Wing), born in New York City
1975 - Paul Agostino, Australian soccer forward (18 caps; 1860 Munich 248 games), born in Adelaide, Australia
1901 - Walter Besant, English writer and philanthropist (Rebel Queen), dies at 64
1921 - Luis María Drago, Argentine statesman and author of Drago Doctrine, dies at 62
1967 - Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, Polish composer, dies at 64
1994 - Angela Lakeberg, American siamese twin, dies at 11 months
2002 - Hans Janmaat, Dutch politician and party leader (CP, CD), dies of heart failure at 67
With a victory at the Belmont Stakes, Secretariat becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win America’s coveted Triple Crown: the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes.
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