| 37 | * | The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor. | Ref: 2 |
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| 417 | * | St Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 731 | * | St Gregory III begins his reign as Pope. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1123 | * | The First Lateran Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome. It was the Ninth Ecumenical Council, and the first one to be held in the West. Lateran I settled the right of investiture (i.e., the right to choose replacement clergy) by a treaty between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1229 | * | German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1438 | * | Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1509 | | Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of Netherlands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1532 | * | English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1543 | * | Hernan de Soto observes first recorded flood in America (Mississippi River). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1554 | * | Elizabeth is put into the Tower. | |
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| 1582 | * | Prince Willem of Orange injured in attack at Antwerp. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1583 | | Dutch States General & Anjou sign treaty. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1673 | * | Lord Berkeley of England sold his half of the American colony of New Jersey to the Quakers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1692 | * | William Penn is deprived of his governing powers. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1754 | * | Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1766 | * | British Parliament reinstitutes the Stamp Act. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1818 | * | Congress approves first pensions for government service. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1847 | | First Dutch public telegram. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1850 | * | Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1858 | | Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | * | The Metropolitan Tabernacle first opened in London. It was the church at which famed English Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon pastored. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | First US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland CA). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1871 | * | Communards revolt in Paris France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | Hawaii signs a treaty giving exclusive trading rights with the islands to the United States. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1877 | * | President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1890 | * | First US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1890 | * | Bismarck resigns as premier and foreign minister afer frequent conflicts with the German Emperor William II. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1891 | | Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | 200 blacks leave Savannah GA for Liberia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | (Shipp) Parden boards a train for Chattanooga. Justice Harlan meets with other Supreme Court justices at the home of Chief Justice Fuller. In an unprecedented move, the Court decides to issue an order granting Johnson's appeal and staying his execution. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1911 | * | Theodore Roosevelt opens the Roosevelt Dam in Phoenix, Ariz., the largest dam in the United States to date. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1911 | * | North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | | Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | | 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | | British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K Gandhi to 6 years for civil disobedience. (He was released after serving two years.) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Judith Kaplan, daughter of Reconstructivist Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, has first Bat Mitzvah ceremony. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1931 | * | Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | New York first requires serological blood tests of pregnant women. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | | President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Georgia finally ratifies the Bill of Rights, 150 years after the birth of the federal government. Connecticut and Massachusetts, the only other states to hold out, also ratify the Bill of Rights in this year. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1944 | * | Mount Vesuvius, Italy erupts. | Ref: 81 |
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| 1944 | * | 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago IL department store. Since the beginning of World War II, alarm clocks had become precious commodities. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | | France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ratified. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of Supreme Soviet of USSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Supreme Court's Miranda Decision: defendants must have lawyers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | | General Suharto forms government in Indonesia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | | Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock off the Isles of Scilly Cornwall UK & spills oil. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Torrey Canyon oil tanker disaster disgorges 30,000 tons of crude oil off Cornwall, England. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1968 | * | Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | The first mass work stoppage in the 195-year history of the Post Office Department began with a walkout of letter carriers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, soon involving 210,000 of the nation's 750,000 postal
employees. With mail service virtually paralzyed in New York, Detroit, and Philadelphia, President Nixon declared a state of national emergency and assigned military units to New York City post offices. The
stand-off culminated two weeks later. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1972 | * | People's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | | Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their embargo against the United States. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Vietnam hands over MIA to US. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | | Iranian authorities detained American feminist Kate Millett, a day before deporting her and a companion for what were termed "provocations." | Ref: 6 |
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| 1981 | * | The United States discloses biological weapons tests in Texas in 1966. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1985 | * | IBM announced that it was planning to stop making the PCjr consumer-oriented computer. The machine had been expected to dominate the home computer market but didn’t quite live up to those expectations. In the 16 months that the PCjr was on the market, only 240,000 units were sold. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1986 | * | The U.S. Treasury Department announced that a clear, polyester thread was to be woven into bills in an effort to thwart counterfeiters. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica & Matthew). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | | First free elections in German Democratic Republic, Conservatives beat Communists. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Microsoft Purchases 26% of Publisher Dorling Kindersley. | |
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| 1991 | * | Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Amsterdam stock exchange hits record ƒ12.2 billion. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | | South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2000 | | Taiwan ended more than a half century of Nationalist Party rule, electing an opposition leader, Chen Shui-bian. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1813 | * | David Melville of Newport, Rhode Island patents the gas streetlight. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1834 | * | First railroad tunnel in US completed (between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown PA ,275 meter long). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | | Einar Dessau of Denmark used a shortwave transmitter to converse with a government radio post about six miles away in what's believed to have been the first broadcast by a "ham" operator. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1931 | * | Schick, Inc., the razor company, displays the first electric shaver -- in Stamford, CT. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | First plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | | The first rocket-driven sled that ran at incredible speeds on rails was tested in Alamogordo, NM. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | The first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod Two capsule, secured by a tether. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16 days. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1167 | | Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1793 | | 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1848 | | Italian revolution starts in Milan. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1859 | | Vera Cruz besieged by Miramen (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | Confederate women riot in Salisbury, N.C. to protest the lack of flour and salt in the South. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1865 | * | The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1865 | * | Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma AL. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | | White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Failed British attack in Dardanelles. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Turkey's Canakkale (Trojan) Sea Victory against allied powers (USA, Australia, England, Italy) during First World War. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | On the Eastern Front, the Russians counter the Verdun assault with an attack at Lake Naroch. The Russians lose 100,000 men and the Germans lose 20,000. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | Peronne, Chaulnes, Nesle and Noyon evacuated by Germans, who retire on an 85-mile front. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1917 | * | The Germans sink the U.S. ships, City of Memphis, Vigilante and the Illinois, without any type of warning. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1939 | * | The Soviet Commisar for Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinov, suggests to British Ambassador Sir William Seeds that delegates from the UK, Soviet Union, France, Poland, and Romania should meet to discuss collective action in the event of war with Germany. | |
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| 1939 | * | British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tells the Cabinet that continuing negotiations with Adolf Hitler is impossible. | |
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| 1940 | * | Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agreed to join Germany's war against France and Britain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | The third military draft begins in the United States. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | The War Relocation Authority is established in the U.S. which eventually will round up 120,000 Japanese-Americans and transport them to barb-wired relocation centers. Despite the internment, over 17,000 Japanese-Americans sign up and fight for the U.S. in World War II in Europe, including the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated unit in U.S. history. | Ref: 37 |
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| 1942 | * | Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Adolf Hitler calls off the offensive in the Caucasus. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | * | American forces take Gafsa in Tunisia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | * | James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Netherlands), torpedoed & sinks. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Red Army evacuates Belgorod. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | The Russians reach the Rumanian border. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1944 | * | British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1944 | * | Nazi Germany occupies Hungary. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | | Nationalist troops land on the mainland of China and capture Communist-held Sungmen. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1952 | * | Communist offensive in Korea. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | | Algerian War with France ends after 7 years of fighting (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1969 | * | President Richard M. Nixon authorizes Operation Menue, the 'secret' bombing of Cambodia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1970 | | Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | U.S. helicopters airlift 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers out of Laos. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1975 | * | South Vietnam abandons most of the Central Highlands to North Vietnamese forces. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1975 | * | Kurds end fight against Iraqi army. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | | Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | | First intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | | US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | | US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Manager Jimmy Dykes allows two blacks, Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland, to work out in the White Sox Pasadena training camp, but dismisses both players. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1943 | * | Due to wartime travel restrictions, spring training camps begin opening in northern locations. Some of the locales include Bear Mountain, NY (Dodgers), French Lick Springs, IN (Cubs and White Sox), Ashbury Park, NJ (Yankees), Medford, MA (Red Sox) and Wallingford, CT (Braves). | Ref: 1 |
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| 1945 | * | Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the first NHLer to score 50 goals. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Major-league baseball announced the first team relocation since 1903. The Boston Braves told of their plans to move west to Milwaukee, WI. The Red Sox stayed in Beantown. After almost two more decades, the Braves moved again, this time they went south to Atlanta. The Brewers then took over Milwaukee County Stadium. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | 15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Indian general manager Hank Greenberg turns down the Red Sox million-dollar offer for pitcher Herb Score. The former slugger says the Tribe is building for the future and not into selling its premier players. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1958 | * | In an effort to change their image, the Dodgers announce their resident clown, Emmett Kelley, will not entertain the fans this season. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Bill Sharman of the Boston Celtics began what was to be the longest string of successful consecutive free throws (56 in a row) to set a new National Basketball Association record. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to be a member of a national network broadcasting team when he signs on to announce games with ABC. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1970 | * | NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | AIAW first basketball championship, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for first time in 225 games (Boston University). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 points in a game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period (vs Toronto). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | WBA light-heavyweight boxing champion Michael Spinks outpoints the WBC light-heavyweight boxing champion, Muhammad Qawi in Atlantic City to become the undisputed light-heavyweight boxing champion. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1984 | * | Chris Johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Commissioner Ueberroth reinstates Hall of Famers Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays; they had been banned from associating with MLB due to their employment with Atlantic City casinos. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | An investor group led by George W. Bush and Edward W. (Rusty) Rose purchases controlling interest in the Texas Rangers from Eddie Chiles. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1989 | * | Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington Capital record of 7 points in a game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson LPGA Golf Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Loyola Marymount beats Michigan Wolverines 149-115, highest NCAA score. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Philadelphia '76ers retire Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | | 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2000 | * | After acquiring Jesse Orosco from the Orioles in a December trade, the Mets send the veteran left-hander to the Cardinals for utility player Joe McEwing. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1773 | | Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer" premieres in London. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1810 | * | "Converse", first US opera, premieres in New York. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | [PT] Barnum & [James A] Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (Madison Square Garden, NY). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Enrico Caruso records 10 arias for the Gramophone Company. The recording session took place in Milan, Italy and Caruso walked away with $500 for his effort. He is the first well-known performer to make a record. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | | Schönberg's "Verklärte Nacht" premieres in Vienna. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | | First performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Hold on to your hats! The opera, Pipe of Desire, was first performed this day at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Frederick Sheperd Converse wrote the work that turned out to be the first opera by an American composer to be performed at the Met. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1928 | | Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll left WGN radio in Chicago to head across town to NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago radio. They weren’t able to take their previously popular radio show names with them due to contract limitations. So Sam and Henry were no more. However, Gosden and Correll came up with a new name for the show that became even more popular than the first. A year later it was the national hit: Amos and Andy. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1929 | | Dmitri Shostakovich's "The New Babylon" premieres in Leningrad. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | | Radio Clube de Mocambique's, first radio transmission. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | | Light of the World was first heard on NBC radio. The soap opera was unique in that it featured the Bible as the center of the story line. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | "Touch & Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | The Caine Mutiny, a novel by Herman Wouk, was published for the first time. Wouk won a Pulitzer for the novel. He followed it with several more successes: Marjorie Morningstar, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | | RKO Pictures was sold to become the first motion picture studio to be owned by an individual (Howard Hughes) for $23,489,478. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Viewers saw the first televised prize fight shown in living color as Joey Giardello knocked out Willie Troy in round seven of a scheduled 10-round bout at Madison Square Garden in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | "Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 264 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Houston Astrodome starts construction-world's first enclosed sports arena. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1965 | * | "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 220 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 3 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Beatles' "Penny Lane" single goes #1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Dean Martin received a gold record for the album, Houston. Martin charted 17 hits on the pop music charts in the 1950s and 1960s. Houston was his 12th. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | "Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 7 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Brook Benton received a gold record for the hit single, Rainy Night in Georgia. It was Benton's first hit since 1963's Hotel Happiness. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | "Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 296 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | The staff of WJM-TV had a going-away party, as the last episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show was broadcast. Everyone was fired except the inept Ted Baxter. The show had been a popular hit for seven years. Syndication continues to keep Mary, Lou, Murray, Ted, Rhoda and the rest of the crew going with what was called “the best television of the 1970s.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | * | Clash releases their first recording "White Riot". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario CA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | "On the 20th Century" closes at St James Theater NYC after 460 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | | California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 38 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | "Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 556 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1380 | * | Liduina van Schiedam Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1483 | * | Raphael painter (Sistine Madonna), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1548 | * | Cornelis Ketel Dutch portrait painter/poet, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1556 | * | Francois-Hercule de Valois French duke of Anjou/Brabant, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1578 | * | Adam Elsheimer German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1609 | * | Frederick III king of Denmark & Norway (1648-70), absolutist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1644 | * | Gottfried Wegner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1657 | * | Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni Italian composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1690 | * | Christian Goldbach German mathematician (Goldbach position), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1733 | | Friedrich Nicolai, German writer; a leader of the German Enlightenment, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1734 | * | Joseph Schmitt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1756 | * | Johann Christoph Vogel composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1765 | * | David H Chass, Dutch baron/General (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1781 | * | Gustave Vogt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1782 | * | John Caldwell Calhoun is born in Abbeville SC. He was the U.S. Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson [1825-1832] and the first VP to resign office. He became a U.S. Senator. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1798 | * | Francis Lieber, German-born American political philosopher and jurist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1809 | * | Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés [Placido], Cuban poet, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1813 | * | Friedrich Hebbel writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1813 | * | David Livingstone missionary, explorer: the Livingstone of “Dr. Livingstone, I presume,” spoken by Henry M. Stanley who found Livingstone in Africa after a two year search; died May 1, 1873 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1816 | | Antonio Salviati, Italian glass manufacturer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1829 | * | William Robertson Boggs Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1830 | * | Numa D Fustel de Coulanges French historian/sociologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1837 | * | Grover (Stephen) Cleveland 22nd [1885-1889] & 24th [1893-1897] U.S. President; only one to serve 2 nonconsecutive terms; only president to be married in White House [to Frances Folsom (2 sons, 3 daughters)]; the first to have a child born there; is born in Caldwell NJ. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1838 | * | Jan B Stobbaerts Flemish painter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1838 | * | Sir Randal Cremer Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1839 | * | Francis Fessenden Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1842 | * | Stephane Mallarme French poet (L'Apres-midi d'un faune), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1843 | * | Jules Vandenpeereboom premier of Belgium (1899), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1844 | * | Nicolai Andreevich Rimski-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Scheherazade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1848 | * | Nathanael Herreshoff, American naval architect and yacht designer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1858 | * | Rudolph C K Diesel, German engineer (Diesel motor), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | William Sulzer, New York governor (1913); impeached and removed from office, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1864 | * | Karl M Lybeck Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1866 | * | Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1866 | | John Loudon Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1867 | * | Michael G de Boer historian (Harbor of Amsterdam), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1869 | * | [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain British Prime Minister (C, 1937-40), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1872 | * | Frank Hoyt Losey composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1880 | * | Christopher K H de Nerre tot Babberich cartoonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | Oliver Seibert hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | Paul Le Flem composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | Gian Francesco Malipiero composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1886 | * | Kurt Koffka Germany, Gestalt psychologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1886 | * | Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips Dutch author (Between Heaven & Earth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1888 | * | Joseph Csaky Hungarian/French sculptor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1889 | * | F Rijkens oldest living person in Netherlands, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1890 | * | Gerardus van der Leeuw Dutch religion historian/minister of Education, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Robert P Tristram Coffin poet/reporter (WWII), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Wilfred Owen England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | (Jackie) ‘Moms’ Mabley (Loretta Mary Aiken) comedienne: Abraham, Martin & John; films: Boarding House Blues, Emperor Jones, Amazing Grace, Killer Diller; is born in Brevard SC. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1897 | * | Betty Compson actress (Big City, Docks Of New York), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Otto Jochum composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | Lavrenti Beria chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | William H. (Henry) Johnson artist: expressionist: Minnie, Sun Setting, Denmark; returned to U.S. when Hitler began destroying African and primitive themes; known later for historical African-American figures & events: Going to Church, Mom and Dad; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1901 | * | Piotr Perkowski composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | John Kirkpatrick New York NY, pianist (Concord Sonata), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Mollie Parnis New York NY, fashion designer (Mollie Roberts Collection), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Robert Donat Withington Manchester England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Citadel), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Roy L Johnson US Admiral (WWII-Pacific Ocean), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Eleanor L "Betty" Compton US actress (Here Comes Trouble), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Louis Gaste songwriter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Chiang Ching-huo son of Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | Smiley Burnette Summum IL, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Margaret Hesse princess of Hesse/Rhine, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Rene Clement Bordeaux France, director/writer (Is Paris Burning), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | William Hutchinson Murray mountaineer/author, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Cesar Guerra Peixe composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | | James Pack naval officer museum curator, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Richard Thomas Condon author, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Patricia Morison (Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison) musician: bass; singer; actress: The Magnificent Fraud, The Roundup, One Night in Lisbon, The Song of Bernadette, Lady on a Train, Song of the Thin Man, Tarzan and the Huntress | Ref: 4 |
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| 1916 | * | Louis Toebosch composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Laila Schou Nilsen Norway, downhill skier (Olympics-gold-1936), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Eric Halsall sheepdog trial commentator, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Egon Bahr German journalist/politician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Andy Granatelli auto racer: STP is the racer's edge, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | Peter Graves Minneapolis MN, actor (James Phelps-Mission Impossible), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Peter Graves (Aurness) actor: Mission Impossible, The Winds of War, Airplane, Airplane 2, Stalag 17, The President's Plane is Missing, The Night of the Hunter; brother of actor James Arness, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | George Plimpton New York NY, sports writer (Paper Lion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | John Harold Kander composer (Cabaret, Funny Lady, Kramer vs Kramer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Richie (Don Richard) ‘Whitey’ Ashburn Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star; 1948, 1951, 1953, 1958/World Series: 1950/batting championship: 1955, 1958], Chicago Cubs, NY Mets [all-star: 1962]; batted .308 lifetime with nine .300 seasons and 2,574 hits in 2,189 games; broadcaster for three decades for the Phillies; died Sep 9, 1997 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1928 | * | Fidel V Ramos President (Philippines), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | William R Boggs Georgia, Brigadier General/chief of engineers under Bragg, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Patrick McGoohan actor: Secret Agent, Braveheart, Escape from Alcatraz, The Silver Streak, Ice Station Zebra, I Am a Camera; actor, director: The Prisoner | Ref: 4 |
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| 1929 | * | Christa Wolf German novelist (Divided Heaven), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Ctirad Kohoutek composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Kai Winding rocker, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Gene Taylor jazz bassist, pianist | Ref: 4 |
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| 1930 | * | Maurice Peress New York NY, conductor (Kansas City Philharmonic 1974-80), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Bill Henderson jazz singer: LPs: And His Special Friends, Live at the Times, Bill Henderson with The Oscar Peterson Trio, Something’s Gotta Give, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1931 | * | Howard Coble (Representative-Republican-NC, 1985- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk President South Africa (1989-94), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | John Updike Shillington PA, poet/novelist (A Month of Sundays, Brazil, The Centaur, Rabbit Run), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Gay Brewer Jr. golf: champion: Masters [1967]; member of Senior Tour since 1982 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Unita Blackwell first black mayor in Mississippi, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Phyllis Newman actress: Coming of Age, That was the Week That Was, Picnic, A Secret Space | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Phillip Roth writer: Goodbye, Columbus, A.P.E.X., Ghostwriter, The Great American Novel, Portnoy’s Complaint | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | Pavle Despalj composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Frederik Willem de Klerk president: South Africa [1989-1994]; recipient [with Nelson Mandela] of Nobel Peace Prize [1993] for democratization of South Africa, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | Hans Peter Bleuel writer (Sex and Society in Nazi Germany), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Robert Lee Smith US singer (Tams, You Lied to Your Daddy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Tony Nash England, bobsled (Olympics-gold-1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Ursula Andress actress: Dr. No, Casino Royale, Fun in Acapulco, What’s New Pussycat, Clash of the Titans | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | * | Mark Donohue, 1972 Indy 500 winner, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | * | Robin Wright race horse trainer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Carl Gottlieb comedian (Ken Berry Wow Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Shashi Kapoor Calcutta India, actor (Shalimar, Heat & Dust), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Charley Pride, Sledge MS, country singer (Just Between You And Me, Sweet Country), is born in Sledge MS. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1939 | * | Travis Pritchett rocker (Travis & Bob), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Kathy Hutchinson race horse trainer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Margie Bowes country entertainer: Grand Ole Opry; married to Doyle Wilburn of the Wilburn Brothers, is born | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Pat (Robert Patrick) Jarvis baseball: pitcher: Atlanta Braves, Montreal Expos, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Wilson Pickett Prattville AL, R&B singer (Funky Broadway), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Wolfgang Bauer writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Jeff Mullins basketball: Duke Univ. All-American, 1964 Olympics, Atlanta Hawks, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Ann Packer England, 800 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Kevin Dobson Jackson Heights NY, actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Kevin Dobson actor: Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon, Dirty Work, Code of Honor, Midway, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Aleksey Vakhonin USSR, bantam weight (Olympics-gold-1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Eric Woolfson Glasgow Scotland, composer/musician (Alan Parsons Project, Woolfson Entertainment Group), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Michael Reagan talk show host, Ronald's son, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Paul Atkinson musician: guitar: group: The Zombies: She’s Not There, You Make Me Feel Good, Tell Her No, She’s Coming Home, I Want You Back Again, Time of the Season; CBS A&R, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Ruth Pointer singer: group: The Pointer Sisters: Fire, He’s So Shy, Jump [for My Love], Automatic, Neutron Dance, I’m So Excited, Dare Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Barry Wilson England, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Robert Harrison rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Steven H Schiff (Representative-Republican-NM), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Glenn Close Tony Award-winning actress: The Real Thing [1984], Death and the Maiden [1992], Sunset Boulevard [1995]; Emmy Award: Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story [1995]; Fatal Attraction, The Big Chill, 101 Dalmations | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Guy Lapointe hockey: NHL: Montreal Canadiens, SL Blues, Boston Bruins, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | | Alex "Hurricane" Higgins Irish snooker player (2X world-champion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Starr Danias New York NY, ballerina (Turning Point), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Brad Dourif Huntington WV, actor (Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | James Conlon New York NY, conductor (Cincinnati May Festival-1979), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | John Hartman Falls Church VA, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers-Taking it to the Streets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Glenn McDonald basketball: Long Beach State Univ., Boston Celtics, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Mike Webster "Iron Mike": Pro Football Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Steelers center [1974-1988]: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; played more seasons [15] and more games [220] than any player in Steelers history; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Chris Brubeck composer, musician: trombone; Dave Brubeck’s son, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | | Helmer C Koetje Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Jamie West-Oram rocker (Fixx), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Margaret L Augustine Buffalo NY, project manager (Biosphere 2), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | James F Reilly II Mount Home AFB ID, PhD/astronaut (STS 89), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | "The Model" Rick Martel [Richard Vignault], wrestler (WWF/AWA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Ingamar Stenmark Sweden, slalom (Olympics-2 gold-1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Christer Fuglesang Stockholm Sweden, physicist/astronaut (Mir backup), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Melvin Gentry vocalist/guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Andreas Wenzel Liechtenstein, skier (Olympics-silver-1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Irene Cara Bronx New York NY, actress/singer (Fame, DC Cab, Certain Fury), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Terry Hall singer: group: The Specials: Gangsters, A Message to You Rudy, Too Much Too Young, Ghost Town; Fun Boy Three: It Ain’t What You Do It’s the Way That You Do It, Really Saying Something, Tunnel of Love, Our Lips are Sealed, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | Claudia Udy Albuquerque NM, actress (Out of Control, Nightforce), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Guy Carbonneau Sept-Iles Quebec Canada, NHL center (Dallas Stars), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Patricia Farinelli Los Angeles CA, playmate (December, 1981), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Richard Biggs Columbus OH, actor (Marcus-Days of Our Lives), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Mark Van Thillo Wilrijk Belgium, co-captain (Biosphere 2), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Todd Nelson Dalles OR, tennis star, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Thomas Ian Griffith actor (Vampires, Catlin-Another World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Vanessa L. Williams singer: LPs: The Comfort Zone, The Sweetest Days; actress: Eraser, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man; Broadway: Kiss of the Spider Woman, Into The Woods; first black Miss America and a de-throned Miss America 1984, is born in Tarrytown NY. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1964 | * | Bonnie Blair Champaign IL, speed skater (Olympics-5 gold/bronze-88, 92, 94), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Christina Ferguson Phoenix AZ, playmate (April 1983), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Geronimo Berroa Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, outfielder (Oakland A's), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Jeff Labarr rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Jerry Cantrell US rock guitarist (Alice in Chains-Dirt), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Andre Rison NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Derrick Graham NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Car Panthers, Seat Seahawks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Joseph Ouellet hockey forward (Team France 1998), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Pat Terrell NFL strong safety (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Michael Dumas NFL free safety (San Diego Chargers, Jacksonville Jaguars), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Sheila Taormina 4X200 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Michael Rapaport actor (Zak-Zebrahead), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Queen Latifah [Dana Owens] Newark NJ, rap singer/actress (Khadijah James-Living Single), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Sarah Thorsett Winona MN, 1.5k runner, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Mariaan de Swardt Johannesburg, tennis star (1996 3rd round Australia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Marlon Kerner NFL cornerback (Buffalo Bills), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Rob Johnson NFL quarterback (Jacksonville Jaguars), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Petra Kamstra Rotterdam Holland, tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Tina Krizan Maribor Slovenia, tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Torrian Gray safety (Minnesota Vikings), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Claude N'Goran Adzope Ivory Coast, tennis pro, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Kimmo Timonen hockey defenseman (Team Finland Olympics-Bronze-1998), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Dionne Bainbridge Brisbane Queensland Australia, New Zealand 200 meter swimmer (Olympics-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 235 | * | Marcus Aurelius Alexander Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered. | Ref: 5 |
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| 978 | * | Edward the Martyr, King of England, the King of the English is assassinated at age 15, by orders from his step-mother, who wanted her son Aethelred to become king. | Ref: 5 |
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| 979 | * | King Edward the Martyr of England is murdered by his stepmother; Ethelred II, the Unready, succeeds to the throne. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1190 | * | Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1227 | * | Honorius III [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1286 | | Alexander III, King of Scotland dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1314 | * | Jacques de Molay (the last grand master of Order of Knights) and Geoffroi de Charney are burnt at the stake declaring their orthodoxy on an island on the River Seine. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1314 | * | 39 French Knights Templars were burned at the stake. Most church history experts agree that these and other hostilities shown against the Knights Templars were caused by the greed and cunning of Philip the Fair, who sought the great wealth this medieval military religious order had amassed in the enturies following the Crusades. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1493 | | John of Lannoy Flemish Governor/viceroy of Netherlands/Zealand, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1582 | * | -Jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1584 | * | Ivan IV the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1690 | * | Charles duke of Lutherans, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1745 | * | Robert Walpole, first British prime minister (1721-42), dies at age 68. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1754 | * | Germain Boffrand, French architect; worked in the Baroque and Rococo styles, dies at age 86. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1768 | * | Lawrence Sterne writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy), dies at age 54. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1799 | * | John Randall composer, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1816 | * | Johann Paul Schulthesius composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1817 | * | Johann Jakob Walder composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1823 | * | Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1864 | * | Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide composer, dies at 48. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1875 | * | Ferdinand Laub composer, dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1876 | * | F Freiligrath writer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | Morgan Earp brother of Wyatt Earp, shot and killed while playing billiards in Tombstone AZ. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1886 | | Leopold Zunz German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1889 | * | William Henry Monk composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Matilda Gage, American women's rights advocate, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1899 | * | Douglas Strutt Galton English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | Svetolik Rankovic Serbian writer (Crushed Ideals), dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Antonio Nobre Portuguese poet (S? [Lonely]), dies at 32. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Marcellin Berthelot,7 French chemist, dies at age 79. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | George I king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Willem Coenen composer, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Steamer "Hong Kong" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | John Frederick Bridge composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | (8) 60-MPH tornadoes speed through Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, & Tennessee kill 689, injure 13,000. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Paul van Ostaijen Flemish writer (Outlawed), dies at 32. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Ban (Byron Bancroft) Johnson Baseball Hall of Famer: president of Western League: changed minor league Western League to major leaguae American League; helped eliminate an element of rowdyism, thus enhancing the game’s reputation, dies at age 67, after a long illness. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1933 | | Luigi A duke of the Abruzzi Italian explorer (Ruwenzori), dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Egon Friedell Austrian journalist (Kleine Portratgalerie), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | More than 400 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, TX. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1938 | * | Cyril Rootham composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Benjamin Delmonte theater director/actor, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | William Durant auto manufacturer: cofounder of Chevrolet, founder of General Motors, Durant Motors; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Louis Bromfield, American novelist and essayist, dies at age 59. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1956 | * | Friedrich Panzer German germanist (Hilde-Gudrun), dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Norbert Weiner, American mathematician, considered the father of automation, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1965 | * | Farouk I, King of Egypt,1936-1952, dies at age 45. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1967 | * | Jimmy Blaine singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Manuel Gomez Carillo composer, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Barbara Bates actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life), dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Lauritz L H Melchior, Danish baritone/actor (Luxury Liner), (Lebrecht Hommel) opera: "The Heroic Tenor", "The Premier Heldentenor of the 20th Century"; dies at age 82. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | David C Imboden actor (King of Kings), dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | James McCartney father of Paul McCartney, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Robert de Roos composer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Marien Ngouabi President of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Faith Baldwin US author (They Who Love), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Peggy Wood actress (One Life to Live, Mama), dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Erich Fromm, German/US psychoanalyst, dies at age 79. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Georg G Lampe Dutch painter/director (Free Academy), dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Umberto of Piemonte King Umberto II of Italy (1946), dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1984 | * | Paul Frances Webster lyricist, dies of Parkinson's disease at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Charlie (Charles Richard) Lau baseball: Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Braves, Baltimore Orioles, KC Athletics, Atlanta Braves; dies at age 50. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | * | Jack Miller orchestra leader (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Bernard Malamud, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, dies at age 71 | Ref: 68 |
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| 1987 | * | Bil Baird, puppeteer (Jack Paar Show), dies at age 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Billy Butterfield (Charles William Butterfield) musician: trumpet; founding member of World’s Greatest Jazz Band; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | * | Piet Kruiver Dutch soccer player, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | William Challee actor (Desperate, Moonchild), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Robin Harris actor (House Party, Mo' Better Blues), dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Vilma Bánky (Lonchit), silent screen actress (Eagle, Rebel), dies at age 93. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1991 | * | Jack McCoy Radio/TV personality, dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Cornelis B Vaandrager [C Vaan], poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Charles Drain singer, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Frederic Ramsey Jr folklorist/author, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Heinrich Sutermeister Swiss composer (Raskolnikov), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis poet, dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Hawkes Jessie Jacquetta Priestley archaeologist, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | Willem de Kooning (abstract artist) dead Alzheimer's at 92 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die | Ref: 5 |
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| 2001 | * | Pop musician, singer and songwriter John Phillips (the Mamas and the Papas) died in Los Angeles at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | Alonzo D. Decker, Jr, son of one of the founders of Black & Decker and responsible for turning it into a giant, dies at age 94. (XDG, p 8A, 1/01/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2002 | * | Maud Farris-Luse, onetime hotel maid and mother of seven, recognized by The Guiness Book of World Records as the oldest living person, dies at age 115. (XDG, p 8A, 1/01/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2002 | * | Brittanie Nicole Cecil, age 13, dies in Columbus (Ohio) Children's Hospital from an arterial tear sustained when she was hit by a hockey puck at the Columbus Blue Jackets - Calgary Flames game 2 days earlier. (Ref: Sports Illustrated, 4/1/2002, p. 59-61) | |
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