| -660 | * | -BC- Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno. | Ref: 2 |
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| 385 | * | Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1531 | * | Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Church of England. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1542 | * | English parliament passes bill-treason for unchaste woman to marry king;Catherine Howard to die. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1543 | | Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1575 | | King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1638 | * | Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1752 | * | Through the efforts of Benjamin Franklin, the Pennsylvania Hospital opened. It was the very first hospital in America. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1766 | * | In Virginia, the Northampton County Court proclaims the Stamp Act unconstitutional. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1768 | * | Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1790 | * | Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1794 | * | First session of US Senate open to the public. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1801 | * | (Burr) The House of Representatives began to ballot as to whether Aaron Burr or Thomas Jefferson should be President. On the thirty-sixth ballot Jefferson chosen President. Burr became Vice-President. Ref | |
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| 1810 | * | Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1811 | * | President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1812 | * | Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a re-districting law favoring his party -- giving rise to the term "gerrymandering." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1814 | * | Norway's independence proclaimed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1826 | * | London University founded. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1837 | * | American Physiological Society organizes in Boston. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1858 | * | In Lourdes, France, 14-year-old French peasant Bernadette Soubirous experienced her first vision of the Virgin Mary. By July 16th of this year, she had experienced 18 such visions. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | * | US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | * | President-elect Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln take the train from Spingfield IL to Washington DC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1878 | * | First weekly Weather report published in UK. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1889 | | Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; first Diet convenes in 1890. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | -17ºF (-27.2ºC) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | Georgetown became part of Washington DC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Owen Smith of North Carolina, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | -15ºF (-26ºC), Washington DC (district record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | -61ºF (-52ºC), Montana (record low temperature). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | | Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Congress passes the Expedition Act, giving antitrust cases priority in the courts. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1904 | * | President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims strict neutrality for the United States in the Russo-Japanese War. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1905 | * | Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | (Shipp) Parden convinces Lewis Shepherd to assist in Johnson's appeal. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1907 | * | De Master's Dutch government resigns. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Heemskerk's government begins in Holland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Alexander announce their wedding date--June 20, 1910. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1916 | * | Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected President of Germany. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Xenia [OH] Women's Music Club is formed. (XDG, p 4B, 9/30/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1926 | | The Mexican government nationalizes all church property. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1926 | | Tokelau (Union) islands in south Pacific transfers to New Zealand. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | The Lateran Treaty was signed, with Italy recognizing the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1929 | * | Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | 73ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | -11ºF (-24ºC), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | First US airplane flight with auto slung beneath the fuselage, New York. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | The German Reich arrests 150 Catholic youth leaders in Berlin. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1936 | * | Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers union following a 44-day sit-down strike in Flint MI. Two months later, company guards beat up UAW leaders at the River Rouge, Michigan plant. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | | The Negrin government returns to Madrid, Spain. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | * | Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Kwame Nkrumah wins first parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | (Rosenberg) President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | A 75,000-watt light bulb is lit at the Rockefeller Center in New York, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Thomas Edison's first light bulb. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1955 | | Nationalist Chinese complete the evacuation of the Tachen Islands. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1958 | * | Ruth Carol Taylor is the first black woman to become a stewardess (flight attendant) by making her initial flight this day on Mohawk Airlines from Ithaca, NY to New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | | Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | | Iran turns down Soviet aid in favor of a U.S. proposal for aid. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1961 | * | Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Robert C Weaver sworn in as Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency with then highest federal post by a black. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London at age 30. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1963 | * | CIA Domestic Operations Division created. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | | Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | The new 20,000 seat Madison Square Garden officially opened in New York. It was the fourth arena to be named Madison Square Garden. The showplace for sports and entertainment opened with a gala show hosted by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington NH (state 24-hour record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 protesting the South African rugby team playing in Scotland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Mrs. Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to lead the British Conservative Party. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1976 | * | Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as first black Secretary of Army. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | 16 Unification church couples wed in New York NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | | EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | An American-led commando squad financed by millionaire industrialist H. Ross Perot, rescues two of his employees from an Iranian prison | Ref: 62 |
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| 1979 | * | Followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, nine days after the religious leader returned to his home country following 15 years of exile. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1981 | * | At least 8 workers exposed to radiation at Sequoyah 1, a TVA nuclear power plant | Ref: 62 |
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| 1981 | * | Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm)). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | | Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country, after nine years in captivity as part of an East-West prisoner exchange. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | British Airways begins trading stocks. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | | Philippines constitution goes into effect. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Anthony M Kennedy appointed to the Supreme Court. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Reverend Barbara C. Harris becomes the first woman consecrated as a bishop in the Episcopal Church, in a ceremony held in Boston. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Nelson Mandela is released from in Paarl, South Africa, after being detained for 27 years as a political prisoner fighting against Apartheid. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1991 | | UNPO, Unrepresented Nations & People Organization forms in Hague Netherlands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | President Clinton announced his choice of Miami prosecutor Janet Reno to be the nation's first female attorney general. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1993 | * | Queen Elizabeth II, the world's richest woman, agrees to become first monarch to pay income taxes. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1994 | * | A judge in Ft Worth TX orders Senator Kay Baily acquitted of eithics charges after prosecutors refuse to present their case. (XDG, p 4A, 2/11/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1994 | * | Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | President Clinton and Japanese PM Morihiro Hosokawa, meeting at the White House, fail to resolve key differences on trade. (XDG, p 4A, 2/11/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1998 | * | KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for an interview. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1999 | * | Pluto is once again the farthest planet from the sun in our solar system. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1999 | * | A federal jury in New York finds several gun makers responsible in three area shootings for letting guns fall into the hands of criminals and assesses damages; gun makers were found liable in six other instances but no monetary damages were awarded in those cases. (However, the plaintiffs suffered a setback in 2001 when the New York Court of Appeals invalidated such claims.) (XDG, p 4A, 2/11/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2000 | * | Britain stripped Northern Ireland's Protestant-Catholic government of power in a bid to prevent its collapse over the IRA's refusal to disarm. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2001 | | Elian Gonzales, the 8-year-old Cuban boy who survived a shipwreck en route to the US, was awarded the U.S. Free Spirit Award by the Freedom Forum, according to a page 14A article in the Xenia Daily Gazette. | Ref: 83 |
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| 2002 | * | Argentina fully uncoupled the peso from the U.S. dollar for the first time in more than a decade. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | Addressing a historic rift within NATO, Secretary of State Colin Powell told a congressional hearing the future of the military alliance was at risk if it failed to confront the crisis with Iraq. (XDG, p 4A, 2/11/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1573 | * | First European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1800 | * | The first idea and proposition to introduce the railroad for the transportation of goods and for commercial purposes generally, and to be used as a highway between one city and another, as at the present day, was made before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle, England, by Mr. Thomas, of Denton, England. Ref | |
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| 1804 | * | Richard Trevithick persuades the owner of the Pen-y-darran ironworks in Wales to let him build a steam locomotive to haul iron along a 10-mile tramway. It works, but the project was abandoned because the 5-ton engine kept breaking the brittle iron tracks. | |
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| 1805 | * | Lewis & Clark: Sacagawea gives birth to a baby boy, Jean Baptiste. Lewis assists in speeding the delivery by giving her a potion made by crushing the rings of a rattlesnake's rattle into powder. | Ref: 65 |
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| 1808 | * | Judge Jesse Fell experimented by burning anthracite coal to keep his house warm on this winter day in Wilkes-Barre, PA. He successfully showed how clean the coal burned and how cheaply it could be used as a heating fuel. As a result, that area of northeast Pennsylvania became an important coal mining area for generations. Those who settled in the area to work the coal mines were referred to as ‘coal crackers’. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1809 | * | Robert Fulton patents the steamboat. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1852 | * | First British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1854 | | Major streets lit by coal gas for first time. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath the fuselage, New York. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | First gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey CA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | From the Kagoshima Space Center on the east coast of Japan’s Ohsumi Peninsula, Ohsumi, Japan’s first satellite, is successfully launched into an orbit around the earth. Japan becomes the 4th nation to put a satellite in orbit. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1974 | * | Titan-Centaur test launch fails. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands, after an eight-day mission. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | STS 82 (Discovery 22) launches. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2001 | * | Two space commanders open the door to Destiny, the American-made science laboratory attached the day before to the international space station. (XDG, p 4A, 2/11/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1543 | | Battle at Wayna Daga Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1720 | | Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1793 | | Prussian troops occupy Venlo Netherlands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1798 | * | French take Rome. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1815 | * | News of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812, finally reaches the United States. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1873 | | Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Wilson's delivers his Four Principles speech to a joint session of Congress. | |
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| 1922 | * | US intervention army leaves Honduras. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | British forces advance into Italian Somaliland in East Africa. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1942 | * | Sec. of War Stimson met with the President to ask for authorization to remove alien and citizen Japanese. The President gives his approval. | Ref: 37 |
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| 1942 | * | The German battleships Gneisenau, Scharnhorst and Prinz Eugen begin their famed channel dash from the French port of Brest. Their journey takes them through the English Channel on their way back to Germany. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | * | General Dwight David Eisenhower was selected to command the allied armies in Europe. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | German troops re-conquer Aprilia Italy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | U-424 sunk off Ireland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement during World War Two. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | U.N. forces push north across the 38th parallel for the second time in the Korean war. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1964 | * | Cambodian Prince Sihanouk blames the United States for a South Vietnamese air raid on a village in his country. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1964 | | Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | President Lyndon Johnson orders air strikes against targets in North Vietnam, in retaliation for guerrilla attacks on the American military in South Vietnam. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1966 | * | Vice President Hubert Humphrey begins a tour of Vietnam. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1968 | | Israeli-Jordan border fight. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2002 | | Israel attacked Palestinian security headquarters in Gaza City in response to unprecedented Palestinian rocket fire and a shooting attack on Israeli civilians. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | US planes attack a ballistic missile system in southern Iraq. (XDG, p 19, 2/12/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1878 | | First US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | | James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299½-last pin breaks but stands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Johnny Evers declines the Cubs' offer and elects to play for the Boston Braves. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1915 | * | Giant president Hempstead objects to the International League's efforts to put a team in the Bronx. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1927 | | US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | | US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | 2nd Winter Olympics games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | | Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champion. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Willie Pep recaptures the world featherweight boxing title by defeating Sandy Sadler in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | NHL Players Association forms (New York NY), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Braves propose to pay 5¢ from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Willie Mays became the highest-paid baseball player in either league as he signed a two-year contract with the San Francisco Giants for a salary of about $130,000 a year. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | | Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champion. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Diana Crump becomes first US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Montréal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | | First sub 17-minute 1,500 meter female freestyle swim (Shane Gould 16 minutes 56.9 seconds). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | First baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | The Cubs trade Bill Madlock and Rod Sperring to the Giants for Bobby Murcer, Steve Ontiveros and a minor leaguer. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1982 | * | Two months after the trade was announced, the Ozzie Smith deal for Gary Templeton is finalized. An outside arbitrator will determine 'the Wizard of Oz's' Cardinal salary. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1984 | * | Wayne Gretsky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Kent Hrbek became the first player in the history of the Minnesota Twins to sign a contract for $1 million. The first baseman signed a five-year, $6-million pact at the same time that the Twins celebrated their 24th year as an American League franchise. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | After refusing the Mets $800,000 one-year offer, World Series MVP Ray Knight signs with the Orioles for $475,000 plus incentives and an option for an additional year. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1987 | * | North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith got his 600th career coaching win as the Tar Heels defeated Wake Forest 94-85. At the time, Smith had 600 wins and 173 losses in his 26-year coaching career. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | | US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | 40th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 130-113 in Miami. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | | US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | In a stunning upset, Mike Tyson is knocked out by James "Buster" Douglas in the 10th round and loses his world heavyweight title. Douglas went into that bout in Tokyo a 35-1 underdog. | Ref: 98 |
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| 1992 | * | Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400 meter (44.97 seconds). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Irina Privalova runs world record 60 meter indoor (6.92 seconds) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | | Danyon Loader swims world record 400 meter freestyle (3 minutes 40.46 seconds). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | | Mark Foster swims world record 50 meter butterfly (23.55 seconds). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | | Sandra Völker swims European record 50 meter backstroke (27.67 seconds). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | | US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | After losing to and IBM computer labeled "Deep Blue", world chess champion Garry Kasparov rebounds to defeat the machine and even their six game series in Philadelphia at one game apiece. (XDG, p 4A, 2/11/2001) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1996 | * | 46th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | General Mills, the makers of Wheaties, unveil three new Jackie Robinson cereal boxes to be sold in stores nationwide. Robinson will be the first athlete to be honored on all three varieties of Wheaties; Original Wheaties, Honey Frosted Wheaties, and Crispy Wheaties 'n' Raisins. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1997 | * | Bill Parcells becomes head coach of New York Jets. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2001 | * | As thousands cheer, Three Rivers Stadium, 30-year-old home of the Pirates, is imploded. Roberto Clemente's 3,000th hit as well as Mike Schmidt's 500th career home run are part of the historic park's legacy. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | | Ellen MacArthur becomes fastest woman to circumnavigate globe alone in her yacht Kingfisher. | Ref: 10 |
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| 2002 | * | At the XIX Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, UT, Canadian pairs skaters David Pelletier and Jamie Sale earn a silver medal in pairs figure skating. Russian skaters Anton Sikharulidze and Elena Berezhnaya earn the gold medal. There is an immediate uproar from the crowd and other officials indicating the Canadian pair had been robbed. | |
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| 1840 | * | Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment" premieres in Paris. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1843 | * | Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "I Lombardi" premieres in Milan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1896 | | Oscar Wildes "Salomé" premieres in Paris. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presented its first concert. The symphony was the first by a municipal orchestra to be supported by taxes. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1921 | * | Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | "April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | | 4th performance of Sean O'Casey's "Plough and the Stars" at Abbey Theatre Dublin causes riot. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1929 | * | Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo" premieres in New York NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Larry Clinton and his Orchestra recorded Martha on Victor Records. Bea Wain was heard warbling the vocals on the tune. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | NBC radio presented The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street for the first time. The famous Blue network series included several distinguished alumni -- among them, Dinah Shore and Zero Mostel. The chairman, or host, of The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street was Milton Cross. He would say things like, “A Bostonian looks like he’s smelling something. A New Yorker looks like he’s found it.” The show combined satire, blues and jazz and was built around what were called the three Bs of music: Barrelhouse, Boogie Woogie and Blues. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | 1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Archie Andrews comic book character (Archie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | "Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | J Styne/B Hilliard's musical "Hazel Flagg" premieres in New York NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | 6th Emmy Awards I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor & Eve Arden win. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Jack Paar walks off NBC’s Tonight Show. The previous night, Paar had told a joke during his monologue, and although Paar didn’t say “toilets,” but “water closets,” it offended the NBC censors, who cut the joke (a total of four minutes) out of the show. Paar was incensed when he found out, so on this night he complained about the NBC censors, said “good night” and left. (He returned on March 7, following a trip to Hong Kong, and stayed around for another two years as host of Tonight.) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1962 | * | First recording session in England for new band-The Beatles; "Please Please Me" recorded in 1 day. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1963 | * | Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album, including "Please, Please Me" | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Beatles first live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Variety reported this day that Walt Disney had secretly taken its movie, Song of the South, out of circulation back in 1958. Originally released in 1946, the live-action/animated flick featuring Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit, Brer Bear, Uncle Remus and kids, Johnny and Ginny, won an Academy Award in 1947 for the song, Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. James Baskett won an Oscar for his Uncle Remus role. Variety said Song of the South was pulled because of ...racist attitudes reflected in the Negro roles in the film. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1972 | | McGraw-Hill Publishing Company and Life magazine canceled plans to publish what had turned out to be a fake autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1978 | | China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Musical "They're Playing Our Song" premieres at Imperial NYC for 1082 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | ABC-TV’s presentation of The Winds of War concluded on this night. The 18-hour miniseries cost $40 million to produce and was the most-watched television program in history at the time -- topping another ABC presentation, Alex Haley’s Roots. An audience estimated at 140 million people watched one or more nights of the program. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1983 | * | "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" & "Buckingham Blues" debut LP. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997" auctioned for $442,500. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2003 | * | The al-Jazeera Arab satellite station broadcast what was believed to be a new audio statement from Osama bin Laden urging Iraqis to carry out suicide attacks on Americans. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1380 | | Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini Italy, humanist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1465 | * | Elizabeth of York London, Consort of King Henry VII, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1506 | | Juliana van Stolberg engraver of Nassau, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1535 | * | Gregory XIV [Niccolò Sfondrati], Roman Catholic pope (1590-91), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1557 | * | John Wtenbogaert remonstrants theologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1568 | * | Honoré d'Urfé French writer (L'Astrée), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1657 | * | Bernard Fontenelle France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1755 | * | Albert Christoph Dies composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1764 | * | Marie-Joseph de Chénier French poet (Cajus Graechus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1774 | | Hans Jarta, Swedish political activist/administrator/publicist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1776 | | Joannis Capodistrias Greek Governor of Troezen (1827-31), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1780 | * | K v Günderode writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1783 | * | Jarena Lee famous African, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1790 | * | Ignaz Assmayer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1800 | * | William Henry Fox Talbot, photography pioneer, produced the first book with photographic illustrations (The Pencil of Nature), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1802 | * | Lydia Child, American writer/abolitionist: Hobomok, The Rebels, The Frugal Housewife, The Mother’s Book, [w/husband] An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans; newspaper publisher [w/husband]: The National Antislavery Standard; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1810 | * | Loisa Puget composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1812 | * | Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President (Confederacy), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1812 | * | Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1813 | * | Otto Ludwig, German novelist/playwright/critic, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1819 | * | Samuel Parkman Tuckerman composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1821 | * | Auguste Édouard Mariette French Egyptologist, (dug out Sphinx 12/16/42), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1821 | * | Hermann Allmers writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1829 | * | William Anderson Pile Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1830 | * | Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1830 | * | Peter Arnold Heise composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1833 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Melville Weston Fuller, eighth U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1839 | * | Josiah Willard Gibbs theoretical physicist/chemist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1840 | * | Sanuel Dana Greene Lieutenant Commander (Union Navy), died in 1884, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1847 | * | Thomas Alva Edison inventor of more than 1000 patented ideas; is born in Milan, OH. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1855 | * | Josephine Marshall Jewell Dodge, American educator, pioneer in the concept of day nurseries for children, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1860 | * | Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author (Monsieur Venus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1867 | * | August W Messer German philosopher/educator/psychologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1869 | | Helene ELJ Kröller-Müller Dutch founder (Kröller-Müller Museum), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1873 | * | Feodor Chaliapine Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | Elsa Beskow [Maartman], Swedish children's book/fairy tales author, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | Fritz Bennicke Hart composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1875 | * | Sara Wennerberg-Reuter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1879 | * | Jean Gilbert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | Gheorghe Cucu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1883 | * | Paul August von Klenau Danish composer/conductor (Sulamith), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | * | Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstängl German/US pianist/politician (NSDAP), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | * | John van Melle South African writer (Dawid Booysen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1889 | * | John Mills musician: guitar, singer: bass: group: The Mills Brothers [father of the four Mills brothers, took youngest son John, Jr.’s place after his death in 1935]: Paper Doll, You Always Hurt the One You Love, I Love You So Much It Hurts, I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm, Someday [You’ll Want Me To Want You], Be My Life’s Companion, Glow-Worm; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1889 | * | Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1890 | * | John P M L de Vries fairy tale writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Johan C P Alberts Dutch literary (Festival), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Alfonso Leng composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Isaac M Kolthoff chemist (Massenanalyse), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1896 | * | Else Lasker-Schüler writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | Yves de La Casiniere composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist, instrumental in the Manhattan Project, peace activist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1900 | * | Thomas Hitchcock Jr great polo player (Westchester Cup 1924,27,30,39), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Hans-Georg Gadamer German philosopher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect/designer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1903 | * | Hans Redlich composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Rex Lease West Virginia, actor (Fast Bullets, Sunny Skies, Custer's Last Stand), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Henry R LaBouisse headed UNICEF (1965-79), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Sir Keith Holyoake New Zealand PM (1960-72), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk Netherlands/Indonesian writer (Camp diary), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Denis Barnett British air chief marshal, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | William J. Levitt, U.S. businessman and community builder who led the postwar housing revolutions with his Levittowns, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1907 | * | E W Swanton author & sports commentator, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Philip Dunne director: Wild in the Country, Ten North Frederick; playwright: The Agony and the Ecstasy, Ten North Frederick, Pinky, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Forever Amber, How Green was My Valley; founder of the Screen Writers Guild; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1908 | * | Josh White rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Sutan Takdir Alishahbana Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs geologist/explorer (British Antarctic Survey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Joseph Mankiewicz Academy Award-winning playwright, director: A Letter to Three Wives [1949], All About Eve [1950]; The Honey Pot, Cleopatra, Guys and Dolls, The Barefoot Contessa, Julius Caesar, People Will Talk; playwright: The Keys of the Kingdom, I Live My Life, Forsaking All Others, Diplomaniacs; director: Sleuth, Suddenly Last Summer, Five Fingers, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; is born in Wilkes-Barre PA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1909 | * | Max (Maximillian Adalbert) Baer [The Livermore Larruper], Omaha NB, heavyweight boxing champion (1934-35)/actor (The Prizefighter and the Lady), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | Alec Cairncross chancellor (Glasgow U), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Roy Fuller England, poet/novelist (Lost Season), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Rudolf Firkusny Napajedla Czechoslovakia, pianist (Julliard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Lucio Diestro San Pedro composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Matt Dennis Seattle WA, singer (Matt Dennis Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | | French Duynstee Dutch constitutional lawyer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Menelaos Pallantios composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | | Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder court judge of Amsterdam, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Josh White ‘The Singing Christian’: blues/folk singer, guitarist; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1915 | * | Haakon Stotijn Dutch oboist (VARA Orchestra, Orkestgebouw Orchestra), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Mervyn Levy artist/critic, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Patrick Leigh Fermor author, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Bernice Levin Neugarten social scientist/gerontologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1917 | * | Sidney Sheldon novelist (1947 Academy Award, 1959 Tony, Bloodline), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Richard Jock Kinneir graphic designer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Gretchen Fraser Tacoma WA, slalom skier (Olympics-gold-1948), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Billy Halop New York NY, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Daniel F[rancis] Galouye US, sci-fi author (Dark Universe, Last Leap), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Farouk I Cairo, last King of Egypt (1936-52), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Paul Peter Piech artist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Eva Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (Lisa-Green Acres, Gigi), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1921 | * | Lloyd Bentsen (Senator-D-TX) (1988 Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Tudor Jarda composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Ronald Arculus British diplomat, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Baroness Sharples, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Mary Tregear Oriental art historian, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Dr Virginia E Johnson sexologist (of Masters & Johnson) is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Kim Stanley [Patricia Reid], Tularosa NM, actress (Right Stuff), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Peter Berger British Vice-Admiral, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Leslie Nielsen, actor: Police Squad, Airplane, Airplane II, Naked Gun series, Dead and Loving It, Forbidden Planet, Wrongfully Accused, is born in Regina Saskatchewan. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1926 | * | Paul Bocuse France, great chef (Legion of Honor), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Alexander Gibson British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Conrad Janis New York NY, actor (Mork & Mindy, Quark, Bonino), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | | Archibald Forster CEO (Esso UK), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Raoul Cita rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Leonard Gregory Kastle composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Alevtina Koltschina USSR, cross country relay skier (Olympics-gold-1960), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | C H Dearnley organist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Earl of Rosebery, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Larry Merchant author/boxing commentator (Showtime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Jerome Lowenthal Philadelphia PA, pianist/professor (Jerusalem Academy of Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Dennis Skinner MP, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Actress Tina Louise (Blacker) (Ginger on "Gilligan's Island") is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | Mary Quant designer: renowned for her 1960s creations: ‘rib jumpers’, mini skirts, dresses, tights, ‘hipster’ belts, sleeveless crochet tops, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | Francesco Pennisi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | John Surtees British race car driver, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Patrick Holmes Sellors ophthalmologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Bent Lorentzen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Gene Vincent Craddock) Norfolk VA, rock guitarist/vocalist (Be-Bop-A-Lula), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Burt Reynolds Waycross GA, actor (Evening Shade, Striptease, Cannonball Run, Smokey and the Bandit, Dan August, Deliverance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Lodewijk Boer Dutch violinist/playwright (The Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Marilyn Butler, Rector (Exeter College-Oxford), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Tina Louise (Blacker), New York NY, actress (Ginger-Gilligan's Island, Julie-Dallas), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1938 | * | Boris Majorov USSR, ice hockey (Olympics-gold-1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | General Manuel Antonio Noriega Panamanian General/dictator (1983-1990), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Yevgeniy Majorov USSR, ice hockey (Olympics-gold-1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Willy Correa de Oliveira composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Bryan Gould MP, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Jane [Hyatt] Yolen US, sci-fi author (Spider Jane, Heart's Blood), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Gerry Goffin lyricist: w/Carole King: Will You Love Me Tomorrow, You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman; w/Michael Masser: Tonight I Celebrate My Love, Saving All My Love for You, is born in Queens NY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Bobby 'Boris' Pickett (singer: The Monster Mash) is born. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1940 | * | Calvin Fowler Pittsburgh PA, basketball player (Olympics-gold-1968), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | John Fink Detroit MI, actor (Dr Adam Hudson-Nancy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Manuel Noriega, dictator of Panama 1983-89, is born in Panama City, Panama. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1941 | * | Sergio Mendes jazz/pop musician (Brazil '66/'77/'88), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Glenn Randall Jr stuntman (Species, Mrs Soffel, Return of the Jedi), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Jeremy Mackenzie General, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | James Couchman MP, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Leon Haywood US vocalist/keyboardist (It's Got to be Mellow), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Otis Clay US gospel/R&B-singer (That's how it is), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Tony Colton rock producer (On the Boards), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Iain Cameron British brigadier, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Win Griffiths MP, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Bert Greene golfer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Buddhadev Dasgupta director (Charachar, Grihajuddha), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Michael G Oxley (Representative-R-OH, 1981- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | | M C Walker CEO (Iceland Frozen Foods), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Timothy Chambers pediatrician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Sue Bernard Los Angeles CA, playmate (December 1966), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Charlie Hargrett rock guitarist (Blackfoot), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Clarence Ellis football: Notre Dame, Atlanta Falcons, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Earnest Jim Istook (Representative-R-OK), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Johanna E "Joke" Beerens actress (Schipper Next to God), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Rochelle Fleming US soul vocalist (First Choice, Smarty Pants), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Philip Anglim San Francisco CA, actor (Dane-Thorn Birds), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Stephen D Thorne Frankfurt-on-Main, German, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Alan Rubin music figure (Blues Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Presidential son and brother, Jeb Bush (Gov-R-FL) is born in Houston TX. (TWA, 1994) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1954 | * | Catherine Hickland Ft Lauderdale, actress (Capitol, Star Trek IV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Kathleen Beller Queens NY, actress (Ft Apache the Bronx, Touched), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Michael Jackson controller (BBC2), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Regina Marsikova Czechoslovakia, tennis star, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Corinne Shigemoto US judo coach (Olympics-96) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Richard A Mastracchio Waterbury CT, astronaut, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Mary Docter US, 3000 meter speed skater (Olympics-1980, 84, 88, 92), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Becky LeBeau Los Angeles CA, vocalist (Mischief), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Carey Lowell New York NY, actress (Me & Him, Guardian, Dangerously Close), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Scott Kolden Torrance CA, actor (Scott-Me & the Chimp), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Sheryl Crow Kennett MO, singer/songwriter (All I Wanna Do, If It Makes You Happy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Todd Benzinger US baseball player (San Francisco Giants), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Angie Ridgeway Wabash IN, LPGA golfer (1992 Sara Lee-8th), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Stephen Gregory New York NY, actor (Chase-Young & Restless), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Alexander Semak Ufa Russia, NHL center (New York Islanders), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Anthony Parker NFL cornerback (Minnesota Vikings, St Louis Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Patrick Kuhnen West Germany, tennis star, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Stephen Gregory New York NY, actor (Chase-Young & Restless), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Barbara Byrne Princeton NJ, rower (Olympics-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Chris Reohr Ridley Park PA, fencer (Olympics-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Derek King Hamilton, NHL left wing (New York Islanders), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | John Patterson US baseball infielder (San Francisco Giants), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | P.J. Sparxx (Laura Brown) actress: X-rated films, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Shannon Long Gladstone Australia, playmate (October 1988), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Bryan Eversgerd US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Jennifer Aniston Sherman Oaks CA, actress (Rachel-Friends), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Joe Valerio NFL outside corner/tackle (Kansas City Chiefs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Kevin King US baseball pitcher (Seattle Mariners), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Mary Stoker Miss Wisconsin-USA (1996), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Jason Allyn Scott Iowa City IA, rower (Olympics-1996), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Jennifer Lynne Faucette Burlington VT, Miss Vermont-America (1995), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | John Bock NFL center (New York Jets, Miami Dolphins), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Linda Wild Arlington Heights IL, tennis star (1993 Melbourne Open), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Dennis Iliohan Dutch soccer player (FC Lisse, ADO Den Haag), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Tom Tumulty linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Brian Newman guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
|---|
| 1974 | * | Ronnie Ward linebacker (Miami Dolphins), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Wally Richardson quarterback (Baltimore Ravens), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Chuck Watanabe kayak (alternate-Olympics-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Jacque Vaughn NBA guard (Utah Jazz), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Kim Weir Miss Nebraska-USA (1997), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Brice Beckham Long Beach CA, actor (Wesley-Mr Belvedere), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Tony Battie NBA forward (Denver Nuggets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Jessica Carlson Kalamazoo MI, archer (alternate-Olympics-1996), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Stephanie Richardson Toronto Ontario, 200 meter/800 meter swimmer (Olympics-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Veronica Marie Duka Campbellsville KY, Miss Kentucky-America (1996-Top 10), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Brandy Norwood, Grammy Award-winning singer: The Boy Is Mine [w/Monica: 1999]; I Wanna Be Down, Baby, Best Friend, Brokenhearted, Sittin’ Up in My Room, Never S-A-Y Never, Top of the World, Have You Ever?, Almost Doesn’t Count, U Don’t Know Me (Like U Used To), What About Us? is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1980 | * | Matthew Lawrence Montgomery PA, actor (Matthew-Gimme a Break), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Natasha Bobo, Watsonville CA, actress (Sally-Together We Stand), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | Michael Jackson Jr son of Michael Jackson | Ref: 5 |
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| 641 | * | Heraclius emperor of Byzantium (610-641), dies at about 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 731 | * | Pope St. Gregory II is buried in St. Peter's; Gregory (later Pope St. Gregory III) is elected (not consecrated) Pope. | Ref: 52 |
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| 821 | * | Benedict of Aniane saint, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 824 | * | Paschal I Italian Pope (817-24), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 867 | * | Theodora the Saint, beauty queen/empress of Byzantine, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1141 | * | Hugo of St-Victor philosopher/theologist/mystic, dies. | Ref: 5 |
|---|
| 1503 | * | Elizabeth of York Consort of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1543 | * | Ahmed Gran sultan of Adal, dies in battle. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1622 | * | Alfonso Fontanelli composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1650 | * | ‘Father of modern philosophy’ Rene Descartes dies in Stockholm, Sweden at age 53.. ("I think therefore I am.") | Ref: 68 |
|---|
| 1685 | * | David Teniers III Flemish painter, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1755 | * | Francesco Maffei, Italian dramatist, archaeologist and scholar, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1762 | * | Johann Tobias Krebs composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1789 | * | Organizer of the Green Mountain Boys, Ethan Allen dies at age 51. | Ref: 68 |
|---|
| 1797 | * | Antoine Dauvergne composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
|---|
| 1806 | * | Vicente Martin y Soler composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1828 | * | DeWitt Clinton, Governor/Senator-NY, presided over construction of the Erie Canal, dies at age 58. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1841 | * | J H Ferdinand Olivier German painter, dies at 55. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1848 | * | Thomas Cole US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School), dies at age 47. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1868 | * | Jean-Bernard Foucault, French physicist and inventor of the "Foucault pendulum", proved Earth rotates, dies at age 48. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | | Jacob M de Kempenaer Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-49), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | Leopold Eugen Mechura composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1879 | * | Honore Daumier, French caricaturist/painter/sculptor, dies at age 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1879 | * | Willem J van Zeggelen Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | Gustav Schmidt composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | George Morgan first English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | Milan I king of Serbia, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Henryk Szulc composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Peter J Savelberg Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | | Albert von Rothschild baron/Austrian banker, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Gerardus J P Bolland Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Charles Algernon Parsons British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | The dirigible USS Macon crashes into the sea when a gust of wind rips off a tailfin. 81 of 83 survive. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1939 | * | Franz Schmidt Austrian composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | John Buchan first Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada (1935-40), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Rudolf Hilferding German economist/Minister of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Ivan Sollertinski friend of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Al Dubin Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | | J S H Lokerman Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Sergei Eisenstein Russia, film maker (Battleship Potemkin), dies at age 50. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1958 | * | Ernest Jones British psychoanalyst (Life & Work of Sigmund Freud), dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1961 | * | Eduard R Verkade Dutch actor/director (Pygmalion), dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Sylvia Plath poet/novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Howard Lindsay US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | James Lanphier actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Emil Abranyi composer, dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Whitney Young Jr National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Jan Wils architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Hans D Jensen German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Communist-led rebels shower artillery fire into a crowded area of Phnom Pehn, killing 139 and injuring 46 others. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1974 | * | Anna Q Nilsson actress (Toll Gate, Sorrell & Son), dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Lee J Cobb (Leo Jacoby) actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Alice Allen actress (Call of the Hills), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Charlie Naughton actor (Frozen Limits), dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Louis J M Beel Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | James B Conant headmaster (Harvard University), dies at age 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Eleanor Powell tap dancer/wife of Glenn Ford, dies of cancer at 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Takashi Shimura Japan, actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Heinz Eric Roemheld composer, dies of pneumonia at 83. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Henry Hathaway actor/director (Nob Hill), dies of heart attack at 86. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Ulysses Sipmson Kay composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Frank [Patrick] Herbert sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | George O'Hanlon actor/director (Bop Girl, Zamba), dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Oscar Nitzchke German architect (Alcoa building), dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Ray Danton US actor/director (Psychic Killer), dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | George A Stephen inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Joy Garrett actress (Days of Our Lives), dies of liver failure. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Oksana Kostina Russian gymnast, dies in an auto accident. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Antonio Martin Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Sorrell Brooke actor (Mayor Hogg-Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | William Conrad (Cann) actor: Cannon, Jake and the Fatman; radio: Marshall Dillon in Gunsmoke; dies of a heart attack at 73. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1994 | * | Sir Vincent Wigglesworth, English entomologist, dies at age 95. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1996 | * | Amelia Rosselli poet, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Bob Shaw science fiction writer, dies of cancer at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Kebby Musokotwane prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Phil Regan actor (Las Vegas Night, Dames, Housewife), dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | Don Porter, actor, Our Miss Brooks, The Candidate, Bachelor in Paradise, dies at age 84. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | * | Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov) director: Barbarella, Pretty Maids All in a Row, And God Created Woman; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2002 | * | Frankie (Frank Peter Joseph) Crosetti ‘Crow’: baseball: NY Yankees [World Series: 1932, 1936-1939, 1942, 1943/all-star: 1936, 1939]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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