| 280 | * | Birth of Constantine the Great, the first Roman emperor to be converted (ca. 312) to the Christian faith. | Ref: 68 |
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| 425 | * | Theodosius effectively founds a university in Constantinople. | Ref: 2 |
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| 837 | * | 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1526 | | Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1531 | | German Protestants form the League of Schmalkalden to resist the power of the emperor. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1557 | * | First Russian Embassy opens in London. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1563 | * | William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1594 | * | Henri IV crowned king of France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1670 | * | Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1678 | * | Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1696 | * | English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1801 | * | The District of Columbia is placed under the jurisdiction of Congress. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1803 | * | Great fire in Bombay, India. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1813 | * | First federal vaccination legislation enacted. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1813 | * | Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1816 | | Dutch regain Suriname. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1827 | * | The first Mardi-Gras celebration is held in New Orleans. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1844 | * | Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1849 | * | William Jewell College was chartered in Liberty, Missouri, under Baptist sponsorship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1854 | * | Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | * | US Congress authorizes first stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1867 | * | The Xenia (Ohio) Torchlight comments on the need for a public hall (which will later become Xenia City Hall or The Opera House). (XDG, 10/2/1981) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1869 | * | John Menard is first black to make a speech in Congress. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1871 | * | Meeting of Alabama claims commission. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1872 | * | Charlotte Ray, first Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1873 | * | Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1877 | * | US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner Presidential election. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1879 | * | Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Conference in London calls for creation of a British labor party with Ramsay MacDonald as secretary. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Star #46 was added to the U.S. flag -- for Oklahoma, which had entered the union on November 16, 1907. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1912 | * | Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | American Association for the Hard of Hearing formed (New York NY). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | The United States rejects a Soviet peace offer as propaganda. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1922 | * | Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes first National Radio Conference. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1924 | * | Belgium's Theunis government falls. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Glacier Bay National Monument is dedicated in Alaska. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1929 | | Turkey signs Litvinov-pact. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | | Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | The Reichstag is destroyed by fire effectively giving Hitler complete control over Germany. The Nazis, blaming the Communists, used the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties.The fire was almost certainly planned by the Nazis, Goebbels and Goering in particular. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1936 | * | The French chamber ratifies the Franco-Soviet pact. | |
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| 1938 | | Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | The Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Belgian government of Pierlot falls. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | First transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Jews working in Berlin armaments industry are sent to Auschwitz. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1949 | * | Chaim Weizmann becomes first Israeli President. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, is ratified. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1956 | * | Female suffrage in Egypt. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | | Mao's speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | | Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | The Soviet Union says that 10,000 troops will remain in Cuba. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1965 | * | Dutch Marijnen government resigns. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Dominica gains independence from England. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | | Rio de la Plata Treaty. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | President Nixon visits West-Berlin. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Thousands of students protest President Richard Nixon's arrival in Rome. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1970 | * | New York Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issue the Shanghai Communique at the conclusion of Nixon's historic visit to China. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1973 | * | Members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), together with a number of local and traditional Native Americans began a 72-day occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. The AIM goal was to protest injustices against their tribes, violations of the many treaties, and abuses and repression of their people. The U.S. responded with a military-style assault against the protesters. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Virginia pool club can't bar residents because of color. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1974 | * | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | | CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Wayne B. Williams was found guilty of murdering two of the 28 young blacks whose bodies were found in the Atlanta area over a 22-month period. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1984 | | Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | | Mauritania's new constitutional charter published. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | US dollar is worth ƒ3.9355 (Netherlands). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36 08 34. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | German war criminals Austria der Fünten/Fischer, freed in Holland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | The Exxon Corporation and Exxon Shipping were indicted on five criminal counts relating to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill which had gooed up Alaska pretty good. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1996 | * | Bob Dole won the North Dakota and South Dakota primaries, while Steve Forbes captured Arizona's winner-take-all primary. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1997 | | Divorce becomes legal in Ireland. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1997 | * | Legislation banning most handguns in Britain went into effect. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1998 | * | Apple discontinues developing Newton computer. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | With the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's House of Lords agreed to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | TX Governor George W. Bush's campaign released a letter to NY Cardinal John O'Connor in which the Republican presidential candidate said he "deeply" regretted "causing needless offense" by making a campaign appearance at Bob Jones University, a South Carolina school whose leaders had espoused anti-Catholic views. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2002 | * | US officials announce a $5M reward for information in the kidnap-murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. (XDG, p 4A, 2/27/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic was sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1700 | * | The Pacific Island of New Britain is discovered. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1867 | * | Dr. William G. Bonwill of Philadelphia, PA invents the dental mallet. He got the idea while watching a telegraph key sounder operate in a Philadelphia hotel. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1883 | * | Oscar Hammerstein I of New York City (father of Oscar Hammerstein II, the lyricist w/Richard Rogers) patents the first practical cigar-rolling machine. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | J S Hey discovers radio emissions from the Sun. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1665 | | Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1667 | | Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1713 | * | French troops bomb Willemstad Curaçao. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1814 | * | Napoleon's Marshal Nicholas Oudinot is pushed back at Barsur-Aube by the Emperor's allied enemies shortly before his abdication. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1861 | * | Warsaw Massacre Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russian rule of Poland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1864 | * | Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumter"; first Union prisoners arrive. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1864 | * | 6th & last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1865 | * | Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon MO. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1865 | * | Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers attack Hickman, Kentucky, shooting women and children. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1881 | * | George Colley British governor of Natal/General, dies in battle at 46. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | Battle at Amajuba, South Africa Boers defeat the British army under General Colley. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Battle at Pietershoogte; Boer General Cronjé surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | | The Japanese push Russians back in Manchuria, and cross the Sha River. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | The start of the 4-day Battle of the Java Sea sees a Japanese naval victory as the largest U.S. warship in the Far East, the HOUSTON, is sunk. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Karel WFM Doorman Dutch Rear Admiral (Java Sea), KIA at 52. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | British Commandos raid a German radar station at Bruneval on the French coast. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1945 | * | Battle of US 94 Infantry. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | F-84 Thunderjets raid North Korean base on Yalu River. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1962 | * | South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem is unharmed as two planes bomb the presidential palace in Saigon. The first US citizens are killed. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1991 | * | At 9 p.m. (EST), U.S. President George Bush said, “Kuwait is liberated. Iraq’s army is defeated. I am pleased to announce that at midnight tonight, exactly 100 hours since ground operations began and six weeks since the start of Operation Desert Storm, all United States and coalition forces will suspend offensive combat operations.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1874 | * | Baseball first played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1890 | * | D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is draw. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Jack Johnson out-points Sam McVey in a 20 round bout in Los Angeles. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1908 | * | Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | The Yankees announce they will begin wearing pinstripes on their uniforms. It will take a few seasons (April 22, 1915) before it becomes a reality. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1921 | | US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | | US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | | Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 meter free style (1:04.6). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | This was the day Notre Dame football coach Frank Leahy announced his intention to concentrate on the T formation instead of the famous Knute Rockne ‘Notre Dame shift’ in South Bend, Indiana. Go, Fighting Irish! Rah! | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Pie Traynor and Herb Pennock are elected to the Hall of Fame. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1955 | * | Betty Jameson wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers, winning 179-139. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | The US Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets, three goals to two, at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, CA. (The US team went on to win the gold medal.) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees signs a baseball contract worth $100,000. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | | Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford Great Britain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | | Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova & Protopopov of USSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer Austria. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Baseball star Dick ‘Don’t Call Me Richie’ Allen signs a three-year pact with the Chicago White Sox for a reported $675,000 after leaving the Philadelphia Phillies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | * | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | | Earl Anthony becomes first pro bowler to win more than $1 million. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Eamonn Coghlan sets indoor mile record of 3 49.78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Giants trade pitcher Fred Breining and Max Venable to the Expos for first baseman Al Oliver. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1984 | * | Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 meters). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Infielder Toby Harrah, an original Ranger, is traded by the Yankees to Texas for outfielder Billy Sample and a player to be named later. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1985 | * | Dale Berra started his first day as a New York Yankee. It marked the first significant father-son combination in major-league baseball. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76 meters). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympics 500 meter speed skating in record 39.1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympics figure skating. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Debi Thomas becomes the first African American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1989 | * | John Olerud, a Blue Jay selection in the draft, undergoes brain surgery for the removal of an aneurysm. The Washington State University left-handed first baseman had collapsed on January 11 after a workout. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1991 | * | Noureddine Morcelli set 1500 meter mark at 3 34 16. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | | PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | 17th Olympics Winter games close in Lillehammer, Norway. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | Al Lang Stadium is renamed Florida Power Park, Home of Al Lang Field. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays lose, 2-1, to the Florida Marlins in their first Major League Spring Training game. Bubba Trammell's home run completed the scoring for the home team. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1998 | * | New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | In the Arizona Diamondbacks' first Cactus League exhibition game, Edwin Diaz hits a ninth-inning sacrifice fly that scores Kelly Stinnett with the winning run in a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox at Tucson Electric Park. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2003 | * | The new Veterans Hall of Fame selection committee, made up of mostly Hall of Famers, fail to select any of the 41 players, executives and umpires being considered. Gil Hodges is 11 votes shy of 75 percent needed for induction receiving 50 votes of 81 votes cast (61.7%). | Ref: 1 |
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| 1814 | * | Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | | First public performance of Holst's "The Planets". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II" premieres in New York NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | | Reader's Digest begins publication on a $5,000 investment. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1933 | | Jean Genet's "Intermezzo" premieres in Paris. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | The 7th Academy Awards ceremony is held at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel (for the films of 1934). It Happened One Night sweeps the awards, capturing Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Frank Capra), Best Actor (Clark Gable) and Best Actress (Claudette Colbert). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Searchlights in the sky guided Hollywood’s finest to the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, and the 13th Academy Awards show. The Best Picture (of 1940) "Rebecca", Best Actor was James Stewart for The Philadelphia Story and Best Actress was Ginger Rogers for her performance in Kitty Foyle. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | | The fourth of the “Road” films, Road to Utopia, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour and Robert Benchley, opens in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | Billboard announced that seven-inch, 45-rpm, singles were outselling 78-rpm singles for the first time in the U.S. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X" "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Family Circle comic strip debuted in newspapers. When Family Circle magazine complained, Keane renamed it, The Family Circus. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | "What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 540 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Pink Floyd recorded Arnold Layne, their first single (released Mar 11, 1967). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | Simon and Garfunkel received a gold record for the single, Bridge Over Troubled Water. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | | A new magazine was issued by Time-Life (now Time-Warner). The magazine was People. It had an initial run of one million copies and became the most successful celebrity weekly ’zine ever published. Weekly circulation of People grew to 3,424,858 by 1994. When you include the people that People is passed around to by other people, that figure is way higher. “People. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | * | Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | 22nd Grammy Awards What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet (You Don't Bring Me Flowers). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro was seen in a TV commercial this day. She was seen in an ad for a diet soft drink. Her constituents were not ‘bubbling over’ with enthusiasm about the crass commercialism. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | The U.S. Senate approved telecasts of its debates on a trial basis. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1987 | * | The longest-running program on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), Washington Week In Review, celebrated its 20th anniversary. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1991 | * | Singer James Brown is released from prison. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | | Ben Elton's "Silly Cow" premieres in London. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a cop. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1539 | * | Franciscus Raphelengius Dutch book publisher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1622 | * | Rembrandt Carel Fabritius Dutch painter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1649 | * | Johann Philipp Krieger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1702 | * | Johann Valentin Gorner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1745 | * | Silverius Muller composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1746 | * | Gian Francesco Fortunati composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1759 | * | Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1784 | * | Elias Annes Borger Dutch theologist/poet (To the Rhine), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1784 | * | Job Plimpton composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1792 | * | Don Joaquin B F Espartero Spanish adventurer/field marshal, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1802 | * | William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck Lord George Bentinck, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1807 | * | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet: The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere’s Ride, The Wreck of the Hesperus; is born in Portland ME. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1811 | * | [Catherine] Mildred Lee sister of US General Robert E Lee, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1822 | * | Eugene Gautier composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1823 | * | Ferdinand Van Derveer Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1823 | * | William Buel Franklin Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1827 | * | Richard W Johnson Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1832 | * | Alfred Pollard Edward Civil War journalist, died in 1872, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1835 | | Charles Cartuyvels Belgian pulpit orator, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1835 | * | Richard Garnett English author (Ananda the Miracle Worker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1838 | * | Birth of William J. Kirkpatrick, American Methodist sacred composer. He edited his first collection of hymns at age 21, and is still remembered today for composing the melodies to such hymns as: "He Hideth My Soul," "'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus," "Redeemed, How I Love to Proclaim It" and "Lord, I'm Coming Home." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1841 | * | [Eleanor] Agnes Lee daughter of US General Robert E Lee, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1846 | * | Joaquin Valverde composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1848 | * | Charles Hubert H Parry England, musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1850 | * | Henry Edwards Huntington US, railroad exec, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | | Rudolph Steiner Kraljevic Austria, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy movement), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1867 | * | Irving Fisher US economist (compensating dollar), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1867 | * | Wilhelm Peterson-Berger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1869 | * | Alice Hamilton physician/writer (workmen's compensation laws), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | Louis Coerne composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | Max Ettinger composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1879 | * | Jose Sancho Marraco composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers Dutch mathematician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | Sveinn Björnsson first President of Iceland (1944-52)/poet (Figur ild), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1886 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Hugo L Black, Alabama, (Senator-D-AL)/78th US Supreme Court justice (1937-71), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | * | James D Innes English painter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1888 | * | Lotte Lehmann Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1891 | * | David Sarnoff US, radio/TV pioneer/CEO (RCA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1891 | * | Georges E Migot French composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | William Demarest St Paul MN, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Joseph Messner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Ralph Linton US cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Robert-Lucien Siohan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | Edward Brophy actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | Marian Anderson opera diva; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1897 | * | Bernard F Lyot French astronomer (Lyot filter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | | G Paul H Schuitema graphic designer/photographer (System-O-Color), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Allison Danzig sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Rutkowski Bronislaw composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | Charles H Best Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer of diabetes treatment (Insulin), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | Ian Keith Boston MA, actor (Rochefort-3 Musketeers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | Sulo Nikolai Salonen composer | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Gene Sarazen Harrison NY, PGA golfer (Masters 1935, US Open 1922, 32), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | John Steinbeck, Salinas CA, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Marian Anderson singer, banned by D A R, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Ethelda Bleibtrey 100 meter/300 meter US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Reginald Gardiner Wimbledon England, actor (Great Dictator), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | James Thomas Farrell US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Renaat Verheijen Flemish actor/director (Innocent Heart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Franchot Tone (Stanislas Pascal), Niagara Falls NY, actor (Dr Freeland-Ben Casey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Charles de Keukeleire Belgian director (Evil Eye), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold English diplomat (South Africa/Tibet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | | Franchot Tone is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1907 | * | Gerhard Alexander [Veldheer], Dutch actor (Prince Willem of Orange), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Elisabeth Welch singer (Song of Freedom, Over the Moon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Ted Horn auto racer: shares record for most consecutive national titles [three, 1946-1948]; never finished worse than fourth during a 9-race stretch [1936-1948]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1910 | * | Joan (Geraldine) Bennett Palisades NJ, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows, Little Women, Disraeli), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Peter De Vries Chicago IL, author (Reuben Reuben, The Prick of Noon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Hugues Panassié French jazz saxophonist/author (Hot Club of France), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Lawrence Durrell Darjeeling India, writer (Alexandria Quartet), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Frank Allaun British MP (L), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Irwin Shaw US, novelist (Rich Man Poor Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | | Arthur Gilson Belgian attorney/minister of Defense (1958- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | John Bowden Connally Jr, Floresville TX, (Governor/Senator-D/R-TX), Wounded in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Roman Haubenstock-Ramati composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Jose Melis Havana Cuba, orchestra leader (Jack Paar Program), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | | David Vere Bendall former diplomat, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Andras Szollosy composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Michael Fox US, actor (Saul-Bold & Beautiful, Young Frankenstein), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Mervyn Jones author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Dexter Gordon US, tenor saxophonist/actor (Connection), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Viktor Kalabis composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | M M Shearer former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Guy Mitchell Detroit MI, singer/actor (Guy Mitchell Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Hugh Leggatt art dealer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Michael Kaye director (City of London Festival), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Richard AFM Auwerda Dutch journalist/writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Sir Peter Emery British MP, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | James (Leo) Herlihy actor: Four Friends; writer: Midnight Cowboy, All Fall Down, Season of the Witch; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | Guy Mitchell [Al Cernick], Detroit MI, rocker/actor (Red Garters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Michael Butler Pro-Provost/chairman (Royal College of Art), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Lord Belhaven & Stenton, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Lieux Dressler actress (Alice Grant-General Hospital), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Joanne Woodward, Academy Award-winning actress: The Three Faces of Eve [1957], Sybil, Philadelphia; Mrs. Paul Newman, is born in Thomasville GA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1931 | * | Andrew Sloan Chief Constable (Strathcourt), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Lord Young of Graffham CEO (Cables & Wireless), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Dolf Zwerver Dutch painter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Elizabeth Taylor, actress (Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), is born in London England. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1933 | * | Ray Berry Pro Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts defensive end; New England Patriots head coach [1984-1989], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Edward Lucie-Smith poetry critic, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Raymond Berry Texas, NFL hall of famer (Baltimore Colts), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | 6th marquess of Bute Scottish large landowner/bibliophile, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Geoffrey Maitland Smith CEO (Sears), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Malcolm Wallop (Senator-R-WY, 1977- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Van Williams Fort Worth TX, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | [Navarre] Scott Momaday US author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Ralph Nader, Winsted CT, consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Mirella Freni Modena Italy, lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Alberto Remedios opera/concert singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Roger M Mahoney Hollywood CA, archbishop of Los Angeles (1985- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Chuck Glaser Spalding NB, singer (Glaser Brothers-Getting to Me Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Timothy Spall actor (1871, Life is Sweet, Crusoe, Remembrance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Virginia Maskell actress (Suspect, Doctor in Love, Man Upstairs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | L Jay Silvester US, discus thrower (Olympics-silver-1972), first to throw over 60m [60.56: 1961], is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Barbara Babcock Pasadena CA, actress (Dr Quinn, Dallas, Hill St Blues), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | | Donald MacKay CEO (Scottish Enterprise), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Viscount Head, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Pascale Petit Paris, actor (Code Name Jaguar, End of Desire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Peter Revson auto racer (1971 Indpls pole winner), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Antoinette Sibley ballerina (Turning Point), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Kenzo Takada Japanese director (Dream After Dream), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Howard Hesseman Salem OR, actor (Dr Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | | Barbara Kelly CEO (Scottish Consumer Council), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Paddy Ashdown New Delhi India, first leader of Britain's Social/Liberal Democrat Party, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Ian McGarry General Secretary (British Actors' Equity Association), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Sandy Wilson director (Harmony Cats, American Boyfriends), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Charlayne Hunter-Gault Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Mary Frann (Mary Frances Luecke), St Louis MO, actress (Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our Lives), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Alan Fudge Wichita KS, actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Roger Scruton philosopher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Daniel Olbrychski Poland, actor (La Truite), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Wil (Wilbur) Jones basketball: Louisiana Buccaneers, Memphis Pros, Memphis Tams; Univ. of District of Columbia coach, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Gidon Kremer Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Marian G Klaren Dutch mime/actress (Red Cabbage), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Eddie Gray rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | | Stephen Curtis CEO (DVLA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Franco Moschino, fashion designer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Julia Neuberger British Rabbi, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Lee Atwater Republican National Committee Chairman (1989-91), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Steve Harley (Nice) singer: group: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel: Judy Teen, Mr. Soft, Make Me Smile [Come Up and See Me]; solo LPs: Hobo with a Grin, The Candidate, is born in London England. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Dwight Elmo Jones Houston TX, basketball player (Olympics-silver-1972), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Henk Westbroek Dutch singer (Good Cause), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Kevin Raleigh rock vocalist/keyboardist (Michael Stanley Band), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Neal Schon rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Sally Spencer actress (M J McKinnon-Another World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Garry Christian singer: group: The Christians, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Adrian Smith, musician: guitar: group: Iron Maiden: Run to the Hills, Running Free, LPs: Killers, Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Somewhere in Time, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | Paul Humphreys rock keyboardist/synthesizer player (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Stoney Jackson Richmond VA, actor (White Shadow, Insiders), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Andres Gomez Ecuador, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Bolik Dahan Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | John van Grinsven soccer player (MVV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | James Worthy NBA forward (Los Angeles Lakers, 1988 Playoff MVP), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Grant Shaud actor (Miles Silverburg-Murphy Brown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Kory Tarpenning Portland OR, pole vaulter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Veronica Ribot-Canales Buenos Aires Argentina, US diver (Olympics-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Adam Baldwin actor: Trade Off, Sawbones, Wyatt Earp, Radio Flyer, Predator 2, Full Metal Jacket, D.C. Cab, Ordinary People, My Bodyguard, is born in Chicago IL. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1962 | * | Grant Show actor: Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210, True Blue, Ryan’s Hope, Texas, A Woman, Her Men and Her Futon, Treacherous Crossing, is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Francesco Cancellotti Italy, tennis star, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | April Heinrichs Littleton CO, US women's soccer coach (Olympics-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Ewen Vernal British pop bassist (Deacon Blue-Your Town), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Richard de Vries soccer player (De Graafschap), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Sandra Cecchini Bologna Italy, tennis star (1995 Warsaw doubles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Gregg Rainwater actor (Buck Cross-The Young Riders), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Chris Howard US baseball catcher (Seattle Mariners), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Pete Smith US baseball player (Atlanta Braves, New York Mets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Dallas Eakins Dade City, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Frantisek Kaberle Brno Czechoslovakia, hockey forward (Team Czechoslovakian Republic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Robert Kron Brno Czechoslovakia, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Loy Vaught NBA forward (Los Angeles Clippers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Mike Sullivan Marshfield, NHL center (Calgary Flames), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Ron Cox NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Victoria Fair Jackson MI, Miss Michigan-America (1990), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Greg Stevenson Sherbrooke Québec Canada, rower (Olympics-11-92, 96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Robert Massey NFL cornerback (New York Giants), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Robert Molenaar Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Willie Banks US baseball pitcher (Chicago Cubs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | David White NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Ivan Robinson Philadelphia PA, US boxer (Olympics-92), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Jaroslav Modry Ceske-budejovice C, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Rich Tylski guard/center (Jacksonville Jaguars), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | "Pooh" Clark rocker (High-5), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Terence Davis WLAF wide receiver (London Monarchs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Chris Dishman guard (Arizona Cardinals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Christina Nigra actress (Out of This World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Dana Marie Lane Cheyenne WY, Miss Wyoming-America (1995), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Duce Staley running back (Philadelphia Eagles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Marcus Robinson wide receiver (Chicago Bears), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Tony Gonzalez tight end (Kansas City Chiefs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Chelsea Victoria Clinton, daughter of 42nd U.S. President William Clinton and first Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1167 | * | Robert of Melun English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1656 | | Johan van Heemskerk Dutch lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1706 | * | John Evelyn diarist, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1731 | * | Angelo Predieri composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1733 | * | Johann Adam Birkenstock composer, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1735 | * | John Arbuthnot physician/mathematician, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1779 | * | Jan Nepveu Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1789 | | The racehorse Eclipse dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1797 | * | Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1805 | * | Stefan Paluselli composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1830 | * | Elias Hicks, American Quaker minister; advocated the abolition of slavery, dies at age 81. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1844 | * | Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1852 | * | Joseph Drechsler composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1859 | * | In a fit of jealous rage, Dan Sickles murders Philip Barton Key (United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, son of Francis Scott Key) in broad daylight near the White House for having an affair with his wife Teresa. (Ref: "Great American Trials", ISBN 0-8103-9134-1, 1994) | |
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| 1861 | * | Russian troops fired on a crowd in Warsaw that was protesting Russian rule over Poland. Five marchers were killed. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1862 | * | Gabriele dell' Addolorata patron of Italian Catholic youth, dies at 23. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1866 | * | Edward Green is executed for the murder of a bank clerk during the first bank robbery which occurred on December 15, 1863. | Ref: 52 |
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| 1887 | * | Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Anne J. Clough, English educator/feminist, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1906 | * | Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1913 | * | Adam Sedgwick English zoologist (Peripatus), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Franklin Sanborn, American journalist and biographer, dies at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1920 | * | Alexandru D Xenopol Romanian historian, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Charles Francis Abdy Williams composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Mabel Cratty, American social worker and head of the Y.W.C.A., dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1929 | * | Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Ivan Pavlov (physiologist: 1904 Nobel Laureate in Medicine; developer of Pavlov’s Theory; dies at age 86. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Nadezjda K Krupskaya Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Peter Behrens German architect, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Kostís Palamis Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basília), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | HJ Lochtman Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Ivan Goll writer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Theodorus Pangalos Greek General/dictator 1926, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Tom Howard comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Frank Dailey orchestra leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Günther Ramin German organist/composer/choir conductor, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Harry Cohn CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack at age 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Adriano Olivetti Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Platt Adams high jumper (Olympics-gold-1912), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Willie Best actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Minerva Urecal actress (Apache Rose, Ghost Crazy), dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Johannes Tralow writer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Ludvik Podest composer, dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Frankie Lymon singer, songwriter: group: Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers: Why Do Fools Fall in Love; dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | John Boles actor (Stella Dallas, Curly Top), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Robert Bruce Lockhart diplomat/writer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Lucijan Marija Skerjanc Yugoslav composer/conductor, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Pat Brady Toledo OH, actor (Roy Rogers Show), dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Allison Hayes actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov composer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | George Tobias actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Malika A Sabirova Russian dancer, dies at 39. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | J Pat O'Malley actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | David Huffman actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. American diplomat: US Ambassador: U.N., Viet Nam; U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1937-44, 1947-52), dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1986 | * | Jacques Plante Hockey Hall of Fame goalie: NHL: Montreal Canadiens Vezina Trophy [1956-1960, 1962/Hart Trophy (NHL’s MVP): 1962]; first goalie to wear mask during games; NY Rangers, SL Blues, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | Joan Greenwood English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Azerbaijani massacre of 32 Armenians in Sumgait suburb of Baku | Ref: 89 |
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| 1989 | * | Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1989 | * | Joe Silver actor (Rage, Rapid, Deathtrap, Shivers), dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Artie Mitchell porn producer (Behind the Green Door), shot at 45. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | H J of Royen manager Dutch (Concertgebouw Orchestra), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | | Robert-Jan Akkerman Dutch diplomat (to Tunis), murdered. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | | Marinus Ruppert Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | S.I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa, Canadian-born American scholar, (Senator-R-CA, 1977-83), dies of a stroke at age 85 in Greenbrae CA. (also TWA, 1993) | Ref: 70 |
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| 1993 | * | José Duval actor (Juan Valdez), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Lillian Gish US actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 96. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1993 | * | Ruby Keeler actress (42nd Street), dies of cancer at 83. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Harold Acton English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Karl I Pelgrom Dutch sculptor, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Laurence "Bill" Craigie jet pioneer, dies at 92. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Leopold "Hans" Kohr Austria social philosopher/economist, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | | Bernard Cornfield financier, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | | Philip Sherrington opus Dei Priest, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | François Chaumette actor (They Never Slept, Christine), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | George Ian Murray 10th Duke of Atholl, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Pat Smythe show jumper, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | | Sylvia Williams museum director/curator, dies at 60 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | Kingsley Davis, American sociologist and demographer, dies at age 88. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1998 | * | George H. Hitchings, American Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (1988), dies at age 93. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1998 | * | J.T. Walsh (James Patrick Walsh), actor (Good Morning Vietnam, Sling Blade), dies from a heart attack at 54. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2002 | * | British comedian Spike Milligan dies in Rye, England at age 83. (XDG, p 4A, 2/27/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2002 | * | A mob of Muslims set fire to a train carrying hundreds of Hindu nationalists in Godhra, India; some 60 people died. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | Fred[erick McFeely] Rogers [Mr. Rogers] children's television host, dies from stomach cancer at 74 | Ref: 5 |
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