1948 Birthday Norair Nurikian, Bulgari, bantam weight, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics, 76 1945 Birthday Aleksey Vakhonin, U.S.S.R., bantam weight, Gold Medal 1964 Olympics 1926 Event Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java 1890 Event George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantam weight) 1604 Event Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam 1599 Event Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove and muskaat 1598 Event Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java 1597 Event Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java
