Events: In 1936 the Italian press reported that Italy would enter the German-Japanese pact against communism; in 1967, at a press conference in Paris, President Charles de Gaulle said he was not prepared to begin negotiations for Britain’s entry to the Common Market.
Births: Anders Celsius, astronomer who invented the Celsius thermometer scale, born in Uppsala, Sweden, 1701; John Murray, publisher, born in London, 1778; Fanny Kemble, actress, born in London, 1809; Sir Charles Sherrington, physiologist who shared a Nobel Prize in 1932 for discoveries regarding the functions of neurons, born in London, 1857; Juho Paasikivi, President of Finland 1946-56, born in Tampere, 1870; Chaim Weizmann, chemist and first President of Israel 1949-52, born in Motol, in the Russian Empire, 1874; Jimi Hendrix, rock musician, born in Seattle, Washington, 1942.
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Deaths: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Augustan poet and satirist, died in Rome, 8BC; Alexandre Dumas the Younger, dramatist and poet, died in Marly-le-Roi, France, 1895; Tom Walls, actor and theatre manager, died in Ewell, Surrey, 1949; Eugene O’Neill, dramatist and Nobel laureate 1936, died in Boston, 1953; Arthur Honegger, composer associated with the anti-romantic group Les Six, died in Paris, 1955.