Historical Events1876 - Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia1945 - Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese1983 - Lee Chin Yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul1998 - Viktor Orbn elected Prime Minister of Hungary after his Fidesz party forms a centre-right coalition the Independent Smallholders Party and Hungarian Democratic Forum2017 - Apple becomes the first company to be worth more than $800 billionMore Historical Events Famous Birthdays1697 - Jean-Marie Leclair l'an (the elder), French violinist and Baroque composer, born in Lyon, France (d. 1764)1838 - John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, born in Bel Air, Maryland (d. 1865)1918 - Dr. T Berry Brazelton, American child development paediatrician, author, TV host (What Every Baby Knows), who developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), born in Waco, Texas (d. 2018)1959 - Cindy Hyde-Smith, American politician (Senator-R-Mississippi 2018-), born in Brookhaven, Mississippi1970 - Perry Blake, Irish singer-songwriter (The Hunchback of San Francisco), born in Sligo, IrelandMore Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths1034 - Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies1641 - Johan Banr, Swedish Field Marshal, led Swedish armies during Thirty Years' War, dies at 441696 - Jean de La Bruyre, French writer (The Characters, or the Manners of the Age, with The Characters of Theophrastus), dies at 501770 - Charles Avison, English composer, dies at 611820 - Matthus Stegmayer, Austrian composer, dies at 49More Famous Deaths