1988 Event Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs vs. Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes 1987 Event Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England 1976 Event TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run 1973 Birthday Shane Lee, cricket all-rounder, NSW and Somerset, Australian ODI 1995- 1972 Birthday Adrian Van Troost, fast cricket bowler, Somerset and Holland 1970 Event Soap opera "Somerset" premieres 1968 Event WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting 1967 Birthday Pam[ela] Bustin, born in Somerset, Massachusetts, field hockey defender 1996 Olympics 1966 Event 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex vs. Somerset 1965 Death William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91 1965 Death W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright 1959 Birthday Tammie Green, Somerset, Ohio, LPGA golfer, 1989 du Maurier Ltd Classic 1959 Birthday Heidi Bohay, Somerset, New Jersey, actress, Megan-Hotel 1956 Birthday Peter Roebuck, cricketer, Somerset opening batsman and SMH writer 1944 Birthday Patti Boyd, born in Somerset, England, Mrs. George Harrison and Mrs. Eric Clapton 1938 Event Bradman scores 202 Australia vs. Somerset, 225 minutes, 32 fours 1935 Event Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs vs. Somerset 1935 Event Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 minutes on debut for Somerset 1928 Birthday David Somerset, born in England, David Robert Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, criticized for accepting public funds on riverbed land granted to his dukedom 400 years ago 1927 Event 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record) 1926 Event W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife," premieres in New York City 1923 Event Hobbs scores his 100th 100, 116* vs. Somerset at Bath 1920 Event W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London 1919 Birthday Geoffrey Luttrell, Lord-Lt of Somerset 1917 Birthday Arthur C. Clarke, born in Somerset, England, science fiction author, inventor, wrote '2001: A Space Odyssey' 1915 Event "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published 1914 Birthday Harold Gimblett, cricketer, legendary Somerset and England batsman 1907 Event Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Mddx vs. Somerset 1902 Birthday Arthur Wellard, cricketer, big hitting Somerset and England batsman 1895 Event Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs vs. Somerset at Taunton 1895 Event W G Grace completes his 100th 100 vs. Somerset at Bristol 1891 Birthday J C "Farmer" White, cricketer, Somerset slow lefty 1909-37 1874 Birthday [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, novelist/poet, Of Human Bondage 1874 Birthday William Somerset Maugham, British Playwright 1874 Birthday W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright 1873 Birthday Chard Somerset, 1st woman Cabinet minister, 1929-31 1871 Birthday Archie MacLaren, cricketer, 424 Lancashire vs. Somerset 1895 1866 Birthday Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor 1851 Birthday Isabella Caroline Somerset, temperance leader 1645 Event Battle at Langport Somerset: Cromwell's New Model-army beats Royalists 1552 Death Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason 1551 Event English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset re-arrested 1550 Event English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed 1549 Event Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector and imprisoned
