Events (150 years ago today): 1876 - Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.

Births (100 years ago today): 1926 - Joan Lorring, British actress (died 2014)

Births (100 years ago today): 1926 - Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (died 2004)

Births (50 years ago today): 1976 - Maurice Wignall, Jamaican hurdler and long jumper

Deaths (50 years ago today): 1976 - Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1895)