Guangzhou was sacked by Arab and Persian pirates in 758. Prince Wilhelm of Denmark became George I, King of the Hellenes, in 1863. Orson Welles's radio broadcast of H.G. Wells's
War of the Worlds created panic in several locations across the United States in 1938, as listeners thought they were hearing a real news broadcast. Jackie Robinson, of the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs, signed a contract to play with the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first black player in American Major League baseball, in 1945.
Born today: John Adams (1735-1826), Richard Sheridan (1751-1816), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), Ezra Pound (1885-1972), Anna Wing (1919), Louis Malle (1932-1995), Grace Slick (1939), Henry Winkler (1945), Diego Maradona (1960) and Gavin Rossdale (1967).
It is the feast day of St. Serapion of Antioch.
