Events: In 1540 the marriage of King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves was annulled after six months; in 1877 the first lawn tennis championship was held at Wimbledon; in 1951, Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon, was sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of court, having refused to give testimony that would help to trace communists accused of conspiring against the US.
Births: Ann Radcliffe, Gothic novelist, born in London, 1764; Matthew Gregory Lewis, Gothic novelist who wrote The Monk (1796), born in London, 1775; Ottorino Respighi, composer, born in Bologna, Italy, 1879; Samuel Eliot Morison, Pulitzer prize-winning historian and writer, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1887; Gladys Ripley, contralto, born in Forest Gate, Essex, 1908.
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Deaths: Jan van Eyck, painter of the Flemish school, died in Bruges, 1441; Washington Allston, painter, author and lifelong friend of Coleridge, died in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, 1843; Alexander Keith Johnston, geographer and cartographer, died in Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire, 1871; King Camp Gillette, inventor of the disposable safety razor, died in Los Angeles, California, 1932; Barbara Woodhouse, animal trainer, died in Buckinghamshire, 1988.