| 356 | * | Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples. | Ref: 5 |
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| 607 | * | Boniface III is consecrated as Pope. | Ref: 69 |
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| 842 | * | The Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ended, when a Council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of images (icons) in the churches. (This debate over icons is often considered the last event which led to the Great Schism between the Eastern and Western Churches.). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1537 | * | Weavers of Leiden Netherlands strike. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1539 | * | Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czechoslovakia), expelled. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1582 | * | Francis of Valois becomes duke of Brabant. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1619 | | Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1674 | * | Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1700 | * | Last day of the Julian calendar in Denmark. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1701 | | Philip V of Spain makes his ceremonial entry into Madrid. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1797 | * | 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1803 | * | Congress voted to accept Ohio's borders and constitution. (However, Congress did not get around to formally ratifying Ohio statehood until 1953.) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1807 | * | Aaron Burr is arrested by Major Perkins near the Tombigbee River in Alabama. He is taken to Fort Stoddart, where he is imprisoned for two weeks. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1812 | * | Congregational missionaries Adoniram Judson, 23, and his wife Ann, 22, first sailed from New England to Calcutta, India. (Judson eventually concentrated his labors in Burma.). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1831 | * | In York PA, Phineas Davis test the first coal-burning locomotive, named "York". (XDG, p 4A, 2/19/2001) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1846 | * | The Texas state government was formally installed in Austin. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1847 | * | Donner Party: The first rescue party sights Truckee Lake. They can only take out about 24 people. Eleven emigrants have died, and the others are in bad shape physically and emotionally. Most have been without meat for some time, and they have been eating boiled rawhide, leather, bones, dogs, mice. Weak with hunger, they have great difficulty getting firewood and have been unable to hunt or fish.
Some of the rescuers go to the Alder Creek camp. The Donners inform them that they will start eating the dead soon if they can’t find the cattle lost under the snow. | Ref: 27 |
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| 1859 | * | Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity first time this defense is successfully used. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | * | Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1864 | * | The Fraternal Order of Knights of Pythias was founded in Washington, DC on this day. A dozen members formed what became Lodge No. 1. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1866 | * | The New York State Senate and Assembly passes a bill to create a Board of Health. It will be signed into law within a week. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1869 | * | US Assay Office in Boise ID authorized. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | Kansas becomes the first state to ban all alcoholic beverages | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Smallpox vaccination becomes obligatory in France. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1903 | | The Austria-Hungary government decrees a mandatory two year military service. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1906 | * | W K Kellogg & Charles D Bolin incorporate Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, Battle Creek MI. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | At a New York dinner party, Diamond Jim Brady amazed (not to mention, grossed out) his guests by eating five helpings of roast beef, gallons of stewed fruit, 84 oysters -- and three gallons of orange juice to wash it all down! | Ref: 4 |
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| 1913 | * | First prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Mexican General V Huerta takes power with US support. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | The First Pan African Congress (organized by W E B Du Bois) meets in Paris, France. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1920 | * | Netherlands joins League of Nations. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | President Calvin Coolidge proposes the phasing out of inheritance tax. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1927 | * | General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Medical diathermy machine first used, Schenectady NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Prussian minister Göring bans all Catholic newspapers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Manuel Azaña becomes Spanish premier. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Nazis raid Koco Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | | Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | In Canada, a surplus Landing Ship loaded with $2 million worth of liquid mustard gas is intentionally sunk in the Atlantic Ocean, off Nova Scotia. The gas had been acquired from the United States in 1942. | |
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| 1949 | | Mass arrests of communists in India. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | The State of Georgia approved the first literature censorship board in the U.S. Newspapers were excluded from the new legislation. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | | South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | | Gabon adopts its constitution. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Protest strike in Poznan Poland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | | Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | The Soviet Union informed President John F. Kennedy it would withdraw "several thousand" of an estimated 17,000 Soviet troops in Cuba. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1964 | | Zanzibar severs ties with US and England | Ref: 62 |
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| 1968 | * | First US Teachers strike (Florida). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | An avalanche occurs in Lima, Peru. | Ref: 81 |
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| 1976 | * | Britain slashes welfare spending. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1976 | | Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | | The U.S. State Department calls El Salvador a "textbook case" of a Communist plot. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1982 | * | The Boeing 757-200 makes its inaugural flight. | |
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| 1982 | | Hanneke Jelgersma (Jagersma?) installed as Netherlands' first Communist mayor. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola in New York. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | The US Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide, 37 years after the pact had first been submitted for ratification. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | | Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | New York Governor Mario Cuomo declares that he will not run for president in the next election. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1987 | * | A controversial anti-smoking ad aired for the first time on television. It featured actor Yul Brynner in a public service announcement that was recorded shortly before his October 1985 death from lung cancer. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1856 | * | The tintype photographic process is patented by Professor Hamilton L. Smith of Gambier, OH. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1878 | * | Thomas Alva Edison, famed inventor, patented a music player at his laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ. (This music device is the one we know as the phonograph.) Here’s the real skinny on the story: Edison paid his assistant $18 to make the device from a sketch Edison had drawn. Originally, Edison had set out to invent a telegraph repeater, but came up with the phonograph or, as he called it, the speaking machine. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1926 | * | Dr. Lane of Princeton estimates the earth's age at one billion years. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1959 | | USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), New Mexico. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | First Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | William Schroeder became the first artificial-heart patient to leave the confines of the hospital (where the historic operation was performed). He spent 15 minutes outside the Humana Hospital in Louisville, KY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Soyuz TM-9 lands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | Soyuz TM-26 lands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 197 | | D Clodius Septimus Albinus Roman bequest in England, dies in battle. | Ref: 5 |
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| 197 | | Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1408 | * | The revolt of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, against King Henry IV, ends with his defeat and death at Bramham Moor. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1512 | * | French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1574 | | Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer & Jisp Netherlands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1634 | | Battle at Smolensk Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1807 | * | British squadron under Admiral Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelles. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | British and French warships begin their attacks on the Turkish forts at the mouth of the Dardenelles, in an abortive expedition to force the straits of Gallipoli. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1916 | * | Kamerun, German colony in Africa, conquered by British forces. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1917 | * | American troops are recalled from the Mexican border. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Japanese troop land on Timor. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Presidential Executive Order 9066 began placing 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry (of which over 2/3 were American-born citizens) into ten "relocation centers" for the duration of WWII. During confinement within the armed, barbed-wire surroundings, however, prayer meetings, Bible studies and worship services were held. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | The U.S. Eighth Air Force and Royal Air Force begin "Big Week," a series of heavy bomber attacks against German aircraft production facilities. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1944 | * | 823 British bombers attack Berlin. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | U-264 sinks off Ireland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | The US 5th Fleet including 30,000 US Marines launch an invasion of Iwo Jima, a Japanese observation post for the B-29 raids. Over the next two months 6,281 marines are killed, and 21,865 are wounded in capturing the island from 20,000 defenders. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1945 | * | 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | French offensive at Hanoi. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | After being hit by enemy fire during a Korean combat mission, Ted Williams safely crash lands his Pather jet. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1965 | * | Fourteen Vietnam War protesters are arrested for blocking the United Nations' doors in New York. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1966 | * | Robert F. Kennedy suggests the United States offer the Vietcong a role in governing South Vietnam. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1928 | * | Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | 2nd Winter Olympics games close at St Moritz, Switzerland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | The University of Southern California (USC) and Notre Dame were cited as examples of commercialism in intercollegiate sports. They each signed a three-year contract for football, while other schools were “feeling the depression.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | Lou Gehrig signs a contract with the Yankees for $30,000. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1942 | * | Unable to find relief from migraine headaches, Indian first baseman Hal Trosky retires from baseball. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1942 | * | The New York Yankees announces that they would admit 5,000 uniformed servicemen free to each of their home ball games during the coming season. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | | Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champion. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is first major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | | Henk van der Grift (Netherlands) becomes world champion all-around skater. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | NFL adds 6th official. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | | Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Effective April 1st, Tiger pitcher Denny McLain is suspended for three months by Commissioner Kuhn for his alleged connection with bookmakers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Walt Wesley becomes the first Cleveland Cavalier to score 50 points in a game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 meter indoor (2:34.8). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 1000 meter in 1 15.18. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | | Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | | Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 meter freestyle swimming record. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | The XIV Winter Olympic Games ended at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The Soviet Union led all countries with 25 medals, the United States captured nine medals to tie for fifth place. Within the shadow of what was the Olympic Stadium, hundreds, maybe thousands, of Bosnians are now buried; the result of the civil war that began in the early 1990s. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | * | First brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at the Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | After signing a contract as a free agent with the A's less than a month ago, Vida Blue unexpectedly retires from baseball. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1988 | * | Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200 meter (1:32.55). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Marta Figueras-Dotti wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200 meter (22.10 seconds). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Linford Christie runs European record 60 meter indoor (6.47 seconds). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Linford Christie runs world record 200 meter indoor (20.25 seconds). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympics village in Japan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2002 | * | The 37-year-old Jose Canseco (.258, 16, 49) signs a minor league contract with the lame duck Expos. The 17-year veteran, who was the 1985 American League Rookie of the Year in 1985 and its 1986 MVP, is 38 homers shy of the coveted 500 mark. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1736 | | Georg F Händel's "Alexander's Feast" premieres. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1825 | | Franz Grillparzer's "König Ottokars Glück" premieres in Vienna. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | | English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini" premieres in Turin. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Ed Wynn became the first big-name vaudeville talent to sign on as a radio talent. Previously, top talent had not considered radio a respectable medium. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1923 | * | Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Philip Barry's "You & I" premieres in New York NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | | William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Bob & Dolores Hope marry. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing" premieres in New York NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | If there was ever such a thing as a jam session, surely, this one was it: Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded "I’ll Take Tallulah" (Victor Records). Some other musical heavyweights were in the studio too, including Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers, Ziggy Elman and drummer extraordinaire, Buddy Rich. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | | CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | | The first Bollingen Prize in poetry ($5,000) was awarded to Ezra Pound. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | William Inge's "Picnic" premieres in New York NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Dot Records launched Two Hearts, Two Kisses, One Love, the first single by Pat Boone. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Motown released first Miracles single, Got a Job b/w My Mama Done Told Me. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | | Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | UK flies ½ ton of Beatle wigs to US. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Rod Stewart and his group The Soul Agents played their first major gig at a club in the London Borough of Harrow. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | "Mister Roger's Neighborhood" premiers on PBS | Ref: 62 |
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| 1971 | * | Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" banned in Britain | Ref: 62 |
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| 1974 | * | First American Music Award. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | 19th Grammy Awards This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | "On the 20th Century" opens at St James Theater NYC for 460 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Coleman, Comden & Green's musical premieres in New York NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | George Harrison was ordered to pay ABKCO Music the sum of $587,000 for “subconscious plagiarism” between his song, "My Sweet Lord" and the Chiffons early 1960s hit, "He’s So Fine". | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | * | "Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 104 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Mickey Mouse was welcomed to China as part of the 30th anniversary of Disneyland. The touring mouse played 30 cities in 30 days. Tough schedule even for a mouse! | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | * | BBC Television launches landmark soap opera Eastenders. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1987 | * | "Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Broadway's biggest flop (lost $5.3 million) "Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | | Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Ken Ludwig's musical "Crazy for You" premieres at the Shubert Theater in New York NY for 1622 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | First broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | | Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | | Michael Tippett's "Rose Lake" premieres. | Ref: 5 |
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| 3 | * | Sadiq Hidajat Persian writer (Blind Person Owl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1473 | * | Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernick), heliocentric theory, is born in Torún, Poland. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1532 | * | Jean-Antoine de Baïf French poet (Les amours de Méline), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1588 | | Pieter de Carpentier Flemish Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1611 | | Andries de Graeff mayor of Amsterdam (1657-71), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1616 | * | Jacques de Saint-Luc composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1671 | * | Charles-Hubert Gervais composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1683 | * | King Philip V France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1687 | * | Johann Adam Birkenstock composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1717 | * | David Garrick actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1743 | * | [Ridolfo] Luigi Boccherini Italian composer, cellist (Minuet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1751 | | Cornelis de Gijselaar Dutch politician/patriot, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1754 | * | Vincenzo Monti Italian poet/translator (Al Signor di Montgolfier), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1755 | | Pieter G van Overstraten Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1762 | * | Friedrich Franz Hurka composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1763 | * | -Adalbert Gyrowetz composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1780 | | Friedrich H von der Hagen German germanist (Nibelungenlied), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1812 | * | Lauro Rossi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1817 | * | Willem III last male King of Netherlands (1849-90), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1819 | * | Mark Prager Lindo English/Dutch author/novelist/writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1821 | * | Francis Preston Blair Jr Lexington KY, (Representative-Missouri), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1824 | * | Constantine D Uschinsky Russian educator, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1827 | * | Charles Robert Woods Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1855, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1828 | | Johannes von Miquel German politician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1833 | * | Élie Ducommun Switzerland, writer/pacifist (Nobel 1902), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1841 | * | Felipe Pedrell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1843 | * | Adelina Patti Madrid Spain, operatic coloratura (Lucia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1856 | * | Rudolf Stammler, German jurist and teacher, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1859 | * | Svante August Arhenius Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo President of Perú (1908, 1919), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | Emanuel Moor composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1864 | | Aritius S Talma Dutch minister of Agriculture (Work Law of 1911), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1865 | * | Sven Anders Hedin explorer, geographer: Tibetan region; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1865 | * | Adrian van Oordt Dutch writer (neo-romantic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1877 | * | Else Berg German/Dutch painter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1877 | * | Louis François-Marie Aubert French composer (Habanera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1880 | * | Arthur Shepherd composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | Armin Knab German composer (Eichendorff-cycle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | Evert Gorter founder of Dutch medical child care, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | Paul Zech writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1886 | * | George Luther Foote composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1889 | * | José Eustasio Rivera Colombia, poet/novelist (Vortex), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Cedric Hardwicke Stourbridge England, actor (Peter Pan, Richard III), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Pietro Pancrazi Italian critic (Scrittori d'Oggi), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Herb Pennock hall of fame pitcher (Yankees, 243 career win), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | Louis Calhern New York NY, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Lauwrens Voorthuyzen [Lou de Palingboer], Dutch sect leader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Giorgos Seferis writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | | Cor[nelis RJ] Kieboom Dutch resistance fighter/chairman (Feyenoord), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Kay Boyle, short story writer ("The White Horses of Vienna"), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1902 | * | John Bubbles (John William Sublett) actor: Porgy and Bess [1935 Broadway version], films: Cabin in the Sky, Variety Show, A Song is Born, No Maps on My Taps; dancer: credited with creating ‘rhythm tap’; is born in Louisville KY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | * | Nydia Westman actress: Strange Justice, The Velvet Touch, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Reluctant Astronaut; is born in New York NY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | * | Hugo Haas Brno Czechoslovakia, actor/director (2 Smart People), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Kay Boyle St Paul MN, novelist (Plagued by Nightingales), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Havank [HF vqan der Kallen], Dutch thriller writer (St Eustache), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Grace Mary Williams composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Hendrik W C Spruit Dutch conductor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Susan Fleming actress: Range Feud, Gold Diggers of 1937; widow of Harpo Marx; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1911 | * | Merle Oberon (Thompson) actress: Wuthering Heights, Stage Door Canteen, Deep in My Heart, Hotel, The Oscar, Interval; is born in Calcutta India. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1911 | * | Nikola Hercigonja composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Dick (Richard Walther) Siebert baseball: Brooklyn Dodgers, SL Cardinals, Philadelphia Athletics [all-star: 1943]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1912 | * | Adolf Rudnicki Polish writer (Niekochana), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Peter Francis de Sautoy publisher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Stan Kenton [Newcomb], Wichita KS, jazz musician/orchestra leader (Music 55), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Alvin Derold Etler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | John Freeman British politician (Labour)/ambassador/TV host, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Eddie (George) Arcaro jockey (1958 Racing Hall of Fame, 2 triple crowns), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Carson McCullers (Smith) author: The Member of the Wedding, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1920 | * | George Rose Bicester England, actor (Beacon Hill, Holocaust), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Frances K Bairstow educator/labor relations consultant, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | | Andries Treurnicht [Dr No], founder (South Africa Conservative Party), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Claude Rene Georges Pascal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | | Beant Singh politician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Josef Matej composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Donald Lybbert composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Lee Marvin Academy Award-winning Best Actor: Cat Ballou [1965]; The Caine Mutiny, The Dirty Dozen, Delta Force, Ship of Fools; is born in New York NY. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1924 | * | Bruce Norris NHL owner (Detroit Red Wings), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Jindrich Feld composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Leslie Laing Linstead Jamaica, 4X400 meter relayer (Olympics-gold-1952), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Gyorgy Kurtag composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Rene Firino-Martell cognac manufacturer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | John Frankenheimer director: Days of Wine and Roses, Birdman of Alcatraz, The French Connection, The Manchurian Candidate, is born in New York NY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Jean-Pierre Ponnele Paris France, opera director (Carmina Burana), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Joseph P Kerwin Oak Park IL, Captain Med Corps USN/astronaut (Skylab 2), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | David Hugh Jones Poole Dorset England, director (Betrayal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | | Julian Belfrage theatre Agent, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Russ (Russell Eugene) Nixon baseball: catcher: Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Minnesota Twins, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | Bob Engemann singer: group: The Lettermen: When I Fall In Love, Goin’ Out of My Head, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | Ione Mylonas Shear archeologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Penny Zavichas LPGA golfer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Gwen Taylor British actress (Life of Brian, Sob Sisters, Screaming), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Smokey (William) Robinson Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Famer: group: The Miracles: Shop Around, I Second That Emotion, Tears of a Clown; songwriter: My Guy, My Girl; solo: Cruisin’, Bein’ with You; Motown VP, is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Bobby Rogers US vocalist (Miracles-You Really Got a Hold on Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Carlin Glynn US actress (Continental Divide), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Carlos Roque Alsina composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Stephen Dobyns US author/poet (Cold Dog Soup), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Paul Krause Pro Football Hall of Famer: NFL Individual Career Record for interceptions [81] for Washington Redskins & Minnesota Vikings [1964-1979], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Bob Menne golf: champ: Kemper Open [1974] | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Kenneth R Kramer (Representative-R-CO, 1979- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | "Mama" Cass Elliot actress (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Lou Christie [Lugee Sacco], Pennsylvania, rock vocalist (Lightning Striking Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | | Jan Bart Klaster mythologist (Slogan), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Jon Whiteley actor (Moonfleet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Michael Nader actor (Dynasty, All My Children), is born.;je | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Thomas Brasch writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Karen Silkwood, plutonium plant worker, was born | Ref: 62 |
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| 1946 | * | Paul Dean rock guitarist/vocalist (Loverboy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Pierre van der Linden Dutch drummer (Brainbox), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Bruce Fairbairn actor: Vampire Hookers, Cyclone, Nightstick, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Peter Bird ocean rower, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Byron K Lichtenburg Stroudsburg PA, astronaut (STS 9, STS 45), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Tony Iommi rock guitarist (Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Mark Andes Philadelphia PA, rock bassist (Spirit, Heart, Fireball), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Edward Hardin New York NY, rocker (Spencer Davis Group), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Ewa Aulin Stockholm, actress (Candy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Andy Powell rocker (Wishbone Ash), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Stephen Nichols Cincinnati OH, actor (Witchboard, Days of our Lives), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Amy Tan, novelist (The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife). | Ref: 2 |
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| 1952 | * | Eddie Brown football: University of Miami, Cincinnati Bengals, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Rudolfo Neri-Vela Chilpancing Mexico, PhD/astronaut (STS 23), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Stephen Nichols Cincinnati OH, actor (Days of our Lives), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Bill Kirchenbauer actor/comedian (Coach-Just the 10 of Us), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Frances Bucholz rocker (Scorpions-Wind of Change), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Jamie West-Oram rock guitarist (Fixx), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Margaux Hemingway Portland OR, actress (Lipstick, They Call Me Bruce), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Jeff Daniels actor: Speed, Dumb and Dumber, Radio Days, Something Wild, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Terms of Endearment, Ragtime, is born in Chelsea MI. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | George David Low Cleveland OH, astronaut (STS 32, STS 43), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Dave Wakeling rock singer/guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Peter Holsapple rocker (Continental Drifters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Falco (Johann Hölzel) singer, songwriter: Rock Me Amadeus, The Sound of Musik, All Vienna, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Dave "Smoke" Stewart Oakland CA, pitcher (Oakland Athletic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Paul Dean guitarist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Holly Johnson England, rock vocalist (Frankie Goes To Hollywood), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Keith Musa[kawukhathi] Zondi South Africa head (Inkatha Youth Brigade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Vicki Lynn Lasseter Iola KS, playmate (February 1981), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, of Britain/Duke of York, , second son of Elizabeth II, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Alvaro Espinoza Venezuela, baseball shortstop (New York Yankees, New York Mets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Hana Mandlikova Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis player (1985 US Open), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Jessica Tuck New York NY, actress (Megan-One Life to Live), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Seal, English vocalist/songwriter (Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Doug Aldrich rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Andrew Jameson British swimmer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Justine Bateman Rye NY, actress (Mallory-Family Ties, Satisfaction), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Prince Markie D [Mark Morale], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Matthew Ryan Port Jefferson NY, team handball circle (Olympics-1996), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Paul Haarhuis Eindhoven Netherlands, tennis star (1994 US/Australian doubles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Peter Douris Toronto, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | William White NFL safety (Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Falcons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Benicio Del Toro Puerto Rico, actor (Licence to Kill, Usual Suspects), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Roel Liefden soccer player (Dordrecht '90, FC Groningen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Frank Watkins US heavy metal bassist (Obituary, Cause of Death), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Rob Dimaio Calgary, NHL right wing (Philadelphia Flyers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Garland Hawkins NFL defensive end (Chicago Bears), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Becca Lee Tennessee, Miss Tennessee-USA (1996-3rd), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Becky Dyroen-Lancer San Jose CA, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Glyn Milburn NFL running back/kick returner (Den Broncos, Detroit Lions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Richard Green Australasia golfer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Wally Williams NFL center/guard (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | William Henderson NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Andrey Pchelyakov hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Masafumi Kawaguchi WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Terrence Rencher NBA guard (Phoenix Suns), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Tommy Bennett safety (Arizona Cardinals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Yevgeny Kafelnikov Sochi Russia, tennis star (1995 doubles-Hamburg), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Paul Frey Boston MA, dance skater (& Ponte-1995 Eastern Jr champion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Raymond Graanoogst Suriname/Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | L A Baby orangutan at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle WA | Ref: 5 |
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| 1260 | * | Boniface of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1401 | * | William Sawtree first English religious martyr, burned in London. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1414 | * | Thomas Arundel archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1545 | * | Pierre Brully [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1553 | * | Erasmus Reinhold German mathematician, dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1568 | * | -Death of Miles Coverdale, 80, translator and publisher of the first complete Bible to be printed in English (1535). Coverdale was also editor of the Great Bible of 1539. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1605 | * | Orazio Tiberio Vecchi composer, dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1620 | * | Roemer P Visscher poet, buried in Amsterdam. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1653 | * | Luigi Rossi composer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1785 | * | Johann Christoph Richter composer, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1790 | * | Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1815 | * | Leonhard von Call composer, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1822 | * | Jeronymo Francisco de Lima composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1837 | * | Georg Büchner German playwright (Leonce und Lena), dies at 23. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1858 | * | Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1864 | * | William Edwin Baldwin US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1869 | * | Death of Elizabeth Clephane, 39, an orphaned Scottish poet who left the Church with two hauntingly beautiful hymns: "Beneath the Cross of Jesus" and "The Ninety and Nine." (All of Clephane's poetry was published posthumously.). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1875 | * | Jean B Vuillaume French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1878 | * | Charles F Daubigny French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | * | Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky & Indiana kill 800 people. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | * | Eduard Douwes Dekker Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Joseph Keppler, Austria bn. American caricaturist and magazine founder, dies at age 56. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1894 | * | Ernesto Camillo Sivori composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | Karl T Weierstrass German mathematician, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet) acrobat, aerialist: first to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope, dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1915 | | Gopal Krishna Gokhale India's social reformer/politician, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Ernst Mach Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Georg Brandes [Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Robert Fuchs composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | William Mitchell, U.S. Army officer and early advocate of a separate air force, dies at age 56. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1941 | * | Hamilton Hamilton Harty composer/conductor, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Wim Speelman Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 26. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Edyth Walker US singer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | André[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide French writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Knut Hamsun writer, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Lawrence Grant actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Martinez Gonzalez, Mexican poet, physician and diplomat, dies at age 81. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1962 | * | Albert Israel Elkus composer, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Forrest Taylor actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej Romanian President , dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Cal Farley ‘America’s greatest foster father’: founded Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch [1939]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | Wilmer King first casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge New York, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Ralph Dunn actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Ralph Edward Flanders (Senator-VT), dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Luigi Dallapiccola Italian 12-tone composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Bon Scott Australian rock vocalist (AC/DC-Whole Lotta Rosie), dies at 33. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Frank Merrik composer, dies at 94. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Alice White actress (Employees' Entrance), dies of a stroke at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Ina Ray Hutton orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1985 | * | Elizabeth Julesberg author (Dick & Jane), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | George Holmes actor (Man in the Trunk), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Paul Stewart actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Adolfo Celi actor (Thunderball), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | James O Eastland (Senator-D-MS), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Jaap van de Merwe Dutch journalist/cabareter (Hadjememaar), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Merwe journalist/cabaret performer (Hadjememaar), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Michael Powell English director (Life & Death of Colonel Blimp), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Peggy Mondo actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Chet Leaming dies after brief illness at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Gerhard Gesell judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Michael Morrison actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Derek Jarman actor/director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Georges Watin Algerian/French officer (OAS), dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Renske Vellinga Dutch speed-skater, dies in auto-accident at 19. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Calder Willingham novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Ian Ball photographer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Shlomo Averbach Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Brenda Bruce actress (December Bride, Nightmare), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Grant Sawyer US politician, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Madhaviah Krishnan naturalist, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Charles O. (Oscar) Finley baseball owner: KC Athletics, Oakland Athletics: last team to win three consecutive World Series [1972-1974]; “He pinched pennies and built winners.”; dies at age 76. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | Deng Xiaoping, the last of China’s major Communist revolutionaries, died at age 93. He had ruled China from 1978 until he retired in 1990, but his influence remained strong until his death. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | Bethel, AK. The principal and one student are killed, two others wounded by Evan Ramsey, aged 16. Two other students are wounded. Authorities later accuse two other students of knowing the shootings would take place. Evan Ramsey was sentenced to two 99-year terms. | Ref: 88 |
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| 1997 | * | Leo Rosten writer/humorist (Joys of Yiddish), dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | Stanley Pearson footballer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | Country Music Hall of Famer, Grandpa (Louis Marshall) Jones dies at age 84. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2001 | * | Movie producer-director Stanley Kramer died in Woodland Hills, Calif., at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2001 | * | Guy Rodgers basketball: Milwaukee Bucks, Cincinnati Royals, Chicago Bulls, Philadelphia Warriors; dies. (TWA, 2003) | Ref: 95 |
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| 2002 | * | Freising, Germany. Two killed in Eching by a man at the factory from which he had been fired; he then traveled to Freising and killed the headmaster of the technical school from which he had been expelled. He also wounded another teacher before killing himself. | Ref: 88 |
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