Today’s birthdays

inside the Sacramento offices of a lobbying group for the wood products industry, killing chief lobbyist Gilbert B. Murray. (Theodore Kaczynski was later sentenced to four lifetimes in prison for a series of bombings that killed three

men and injured 29 others.)

In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI formally began his stewardship of the Roman Catholic Church; the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in his installation homily that as pontiff he would listen to the will of God in governing the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics.

In 2013, in Bangladesh, a shoddily constructed eightstory commercial building housing garment factories collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people.

In 2019, avowed racist John William King was executed in Texas for the 1998 slaying of James Byrd Jr., who was chained to the back of a truck and dragged along a road outside Jasper, Texas; prosecutors said Byrd was targeted because he was Black.

In 2020, the Food and Drug Administration issued an alert

about the dangers of using a malaria drug that President Donald Trump had repeatedly promoted for coronavirus patients. The parent company of Lysol and another disinfectant warned that its products should not be used as an internal treatment for the coronavirus, a day after Trump wondered aloud about that prospect during a briefing.

Shirley Maclaine is 88. Barbra Streisand is 80. Musician Doug Clifford (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 77. Actor Eric Bogosian is 69. Actor Michael O’keefe is 67. Actorcomedian Cedric the Entertainer is 58. Actor Djimon Hounsou is 58. Actor Stacy Haiduk is 54. Actor Melinda Clarke is 53. Actor Eric Balfour is 45. Singer-tv host Kelly Clarkson is 40.