| 752 | * | (or 23rd) Stephen begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1135 | * | The coronation of Matilda, wife of Stephen of Bloise (of England), by William de Corbeil at Westminster Abbey. | Ref: 16 |
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| 1556 | * | Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1621 | | Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Netherlands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1621 | * | In colonial Massachusetts, the Plymouth Colony made a treaty with the neighboring Massasoit Indians which both sides kept for fifty years. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1630 | * | The first legislation prohibiting gambling is enacted in Boston. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1638 | * | Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1664 | * | Charles II gives large tracks of land from west of the Connecticut River to the east of Delaware Bay in North America to his brother James, the Duke of York. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1680 | | Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1692 | * | Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1719 | | Frederick William abolishes serfdom on crown property in Prussia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1752 | * | Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1765 | * | The Stamp Act is enacted by Parliament. Stamps are required on newspapers, pamphlets, playing cards, dice, and legal papers in the colonies after November 1. This is the first direct British tax on colonists. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1775 | * | British statesman Edmund Burke makes a speech in the House of Commons, urging the government to adopt a policy of reconciliation with America. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1778 | * | Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1790 | * | Thomas Jefferson becomes the first U.S. Secretary of State. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1794 | * | Congress passes laws prohibiting slave trade with foreign countries although slavery remains legal in the United States. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1819 | * | Birth of Joseph P. Webster, American sacred music writer. During his lifetime, Webster composed over 1,000 pieces of music, including the still_popular hymn tune SWEET BY AND BY ("There's a Land That is Fairer Than Day"). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1822 | * | New York Horticultural Society founded. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1836 | * | Birth of Edgar P. Stites, American Methodist frontier preacher and missionary. Stites is remembered today as author of the hymns "Beulah Land" and "Trusting Jesus." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | * | First US nursing school chartered. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1862 | | San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1866 | * | (Dakota Conflict) President Andrew Johnson orders release of the 177 surviving prisoners. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1871 | * | William Holden of North Carolina is first governor removed from office by impeachment. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1872 | * | Illinois becomes the first state to require sexual equality in employment. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1873 | * | Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | The Young Men's Hebrew Association founded in NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | Edmunds Act adopted by US to suppress polygamy in the territories. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | Professor Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis germ -- in Berlin, Germany. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1901 | * | Japan proclaims that it is determined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1903 | * | Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | | The first color photograph is published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.
The first color photograph is published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1914 | * | World's first airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins operations. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | One week after socialist revolutionaries forced Russian Czar Nicholas II to abdicate, the United States becomes the first government in the world to recognize Russia’s provincial government. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1917 | * | Tsar Nicholas II was arrested at army headquarters and imprisoned at Tsarkoe Selo, the famous royal palace in the countryside. | Ref: 90 |
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| 1917 | * | The US is the first government to recognize the new Russian Provisional Government | Ref: 90 |
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| 1919 | * | The first international airline service is inaugurated on a weekly schedule between Paris and Brussels. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1922 | * | British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Edward L. Doheny of the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company goes on trial for bribing former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall to obtain leases to valuable naval oil reserves in the Teapot Dome Scandal. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1933 | * | (Prohibition) During Prohibition, President Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to three-point-two percent alcohol legal. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1935 | * | Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Newly built gas chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1943 | * | SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | | The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi, Syria, Transjordan join. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Britain signs a treaty granting independence to Jordan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | The United States announces a land reform plan for Korea. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1953 | * | Antonín Zápotocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | The London gold market reopens for the first time since 1939. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1954 | * | First shopping mall opened in Southfield MI. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Earthquake gives San Francisco the shakes | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Beatles release first album, "Please Please Me". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | President Johnson's daughter, Lynda, ordered off Cable Car because she was eating an ice cream cone (no food on cars) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. (It fell three states short of the 38 needed for approval.) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | There was an attempt to abduct Princess Anne in "The Mall" in London | Ref: 62 |
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| 1975 | * | A worker looking for air leaks with a candle causes $150 million fire at the Brown's Ferry reactor in Decatur, Alabama | Ref: 62 |
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| 1975 | * | Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Indira Gandhi resigns as the Prime Minister of India. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | | Dutch Den Uyl government falls. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | France performs nuclear test. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Robert Frost Plaza, Drumm & Market, San Francisco CA, dedicated. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | | The Israeli parliament approves a peace treaty with Egypt. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | First class postage raised to 18¢ from 15¢. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1983 | * | Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Microsoft Press introduces its first two titles Cary Lu's "The Apple Macintosh Book," and Peter Norton's "Exploring the IBM PCjr Home Computer," at the 1984 West Coast Computer Faire. | |
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| 1987 | * | A barge carrying 32,00 tons of garbage, left Islip, N.Y., on a six-month journey in search of a place to unload. The barge was turned away by several states and three countries until space was found back in Islip. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1988 | * | Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York NY Board of Estimate. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of three major charges in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1991 | * | High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter NH, of murder-conspiracy. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1993 | * | Microsoft Encarta Ships. | |
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| 1993 | * | Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | | South African Government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Microsoft and DreamWorks SKG announce that they have signed a joint-venture agreement to form a new software company designed to produce interactive and multimedia entertainment properties. | |
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| 1995 | * | Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Colin Ferguson was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train in 1993. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1996 | * | Schwab launches its online stock trading system, eSchwab. Online stock trading was one of the earliest online commerce applications to catch on with consumers. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1996 | * | Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1999 | * | Acting as his own lawyer, Dr. Jack Kevorkian went on trial on murder charges for the first time, telling a jury in Pontiac, Michigan, he was merely carrying out his professional duty in a videotaped assisted death shown on "60 Minutes." (Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder.) | Ref: 70 |
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| 2001 | * | Granite Hills, CA. One teacher and three students wounded by Jason Hoffman, 18, at Granite Hills High School. A policeman shot and wounded Hoffman. | Ref: 88 |
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| 2003 | * | US forces report seizing a large weapons cache in Afghanistan. (XDG, p 5A, 3/22/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1733 | * | Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1840 | * | Orlando Jones patents cornstarch. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1841 | * | Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly leave the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School, where they had developed ENIAC, the first digital computer. Their abrupt departure resulted from haggles over intellectual property rights to ENIAC. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1946 | * | The 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up) is launched. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1960 | * | First patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 is launched. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | NASA launches Intelsat VA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Microsoft releases Windows 3.0.First version of Windows to allow use of memory beyond 640Kb. | Ref: 80 |
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| 1991 | * | Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Soyuz TM-21 lands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | The shuttle "Atlantis," carrying astronaut Shannon Lucid to a rendezvous with the Russian space station "Mir," blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1865 | * | Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Russians troops complete the evacuation of Manchuria in the face of advancing Japanese forces. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1915 | * | Austrian fortress of Przmysl surrenders to Russians. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1915 | * | A German Zepplin makes a night raid on Paris railway stations. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | Heavy German assault on Malta. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Dutch work week extended to 54 hours. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | President Lyndon Johnson names General William Westmoreland as Army Chief of Staff. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1974 | * | The Viet Cong propose a new truce with the United States and South Vietnam, which includes general elections. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1982 | * | Iran offensive against Iraq. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2003 | * | During a 24-hour period, 500 cruise missles and several hundred precision weapons are fired on Iraq. (XDG, p 5A, 4/21/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | Two British Navy Sea King helicopters collide over the Persian Gulf, killing 1 American and 6 British soldiers. (WSJ, p A4, 7/23/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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| 1888 | * | English Football League established. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | First public women's basketball game played at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1894 | * | Hockey's first Stanley Cup championship game is played; the home team Montreal Amateur Athletic Association defeated the Ottawa Capitals, 3-to-1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1896 | * | Charilaos Vasilakos wins first marathon (3:18). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | New York Highlanders (Yankees) tickets first go on sale. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | First Masters golf championship began in Augusta GA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | In his second exhibition game, Dodger Pete Reiser homers in his first at-bat against the Cardinals to begin a streak of 10 consecutive hits. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1940 | * | Dave Keon Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs [Rookie of the Year; 1961/Lady Byng Trophy: 1962, 1963/Stanley Cup playoff MVP: 1967], Hartford Whalers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Roger Maris declines to pose with Met coach Roger Hornsby because the Hall of Famer had criticized him in the Rajah's' book, "My Wars with Baseball". | Ref: 1 |
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| 1964 | * | Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Mohammed Ali KOs Zora Folley in the 7th round in Madison Square Garden NY to retain the Heavyweight Boxing title. | Ref: 96 |
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| 1969 | * | 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is named NBA MVP. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Nick Mileti purchases Cleveland Indians for $9 million. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | The Yankees trade first baseman Danny Cater to the Red Sox for lefty reliever Albert Walter Lyle. Over the next seven years, Sparky will pitch in 420 games in relief with 57-40 record and a 2.41 ERA notching 141 saves as he helps the Bronx Bombers to appear in three World Series. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1973 | * | Professional track debuted with Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile run at the International Track Association meet held in Los Angeles, CA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | | Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Matthew Said Muhammad beats Marvin Johnson for light-heavyweight boxing title. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1979 | * | NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Desert Inn Pro-Am Golf Tournament. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)/30k (1:29:18.8). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Debi Thomas is 1st black to win world figure skating champ. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Trevor Berbick successfully challenges Pinklon Thomas for the WBC heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas NV. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1986 | * | Yankee pitcher Britt Burns, an 18-game winner with the White Sox last season, will miss the entire season due to a degenerative hip condition. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1986 | | Andrea Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7 :0.99). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | | Karin Kania skates ladies world record 1500 meter (1 :9.30). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | | Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes first skater to land a quadruple jump. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | | World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin (USSR). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | | World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (USSR). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | | World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | | World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Betsy King wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | The Major League umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Danielle Ammaccapane wins Standard Register Ping Golf Championship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Joseph A Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | In a tragic accident, Indian pitchers Steve Olin, 27, and Tim Crews, 31, are killed when their motorboat strikes a pier. Bob Ojeda is severely injured, but will return to play major league baseball. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1994 | | Mark Foster swims world record 50 meter butterfly (23.68 seconds). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | | Tara Lipinski became the youngest women's world figure skating champion at age 14 years, 10 months. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1998 | * | Liselotte Neumann wins Standard Register PING Golf Tournament | Ref: 5 |
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| 2002 | * | After a poor spring trying to make the Dodgers as a bench player, 38-year-old Dante Bichette (.299, 274, 1,141) announces his retirement. The four-time All-Star played with the Angels, Brewers, Rockies, Reds and Red Sox during his 14-year major league career. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1822 | * | Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1834 | | Horace Greeley publishes New Yorker, a weekly literary and news magazine and forerunner of Harold Ross' more successful The New Yorker. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1895 | | Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie to an invited audience in Paris; this is generally regarded as the first public display of a movie projected onto a screen. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1911 | * | Hermann Jadlowker became the first opera singer to perform two major roles in the same day at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | | Federico García Lorca's "El Maleficio" premieres in Madrid. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Noël Coward's musical "This Year of Grace" premieres in London. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | | After a year as a local show from New York City, Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour was heard on the entire NBC radio network. The show stayed on the air for 17 years. Later, Ted Mack took over for Bowes and made the move from radio to television. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Glenn Miller began work on his first motion picture for 20th Century Fox. The film was Sun Valley Serenade. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | The Tennessee Williams play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, opened on Broadway. The hit ran for 694 shows and won the Critics’ Circle Award as the Best American Play. The movie version was a big hit as well and featured Burl Ives, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in starring roles. Paul, Liz and the movie received Oscar nominations. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Perry Como became the first major TV variety-show host to book a rock and roll act on his program. The ‘Incomparable Mr. C.’ booked Carl Perkins for the show and Perkins sang Blue Suede Shoes. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Art Clokey's "Gumby" debuted. | Ref: 73 |
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| 1958 | * | Elvis Presley reported to local draft board 86 in Memphis, TN. He became US 53310761. Oddly, since Elvis was now ‘government property’ serving his time in the Army, Uncle Sam stood to lose an estimated $500,000 in lost taxes each year that Private Presley was in the Army. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | | A U.S. appeals court ruled that the novel, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, was not obscene and could be sent through the mail. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1962 | * | "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert NYC for 300 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | The Beatles release their 1st album, "Please Please Me". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes first & only Heisman Trophy winner. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Barbra Striesand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Bob Dylan's album "Bringing It All Back Home" his first featuring electric guitar - was released. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1969 | * | "Billy" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | "Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | "Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | | Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Comedienne Lily Tomlin made her debut on Broadway as Appearing Nightly opened in New York. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1978 | * | Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is shown on NBC-TV. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | RCA put its Selectravision laser disc players on the market. Soon, the product was called “the Edsel of the entertainment field.” The units cost $500 and the videodisks about $15 each. The combination failed to catch the consumer’s fancy. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | * | The Golden Raspberry Awards were presented to parody the Oscar Awards. The movie, Bolero, won the big award, for John and Bo (I’m a 10!) Derek; winning honors for worst director and worst actress, respectively. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | The 58th Academy Awards: Out of Africa, William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman), Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful) win. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Heart's "These Dreams" single goes #1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | "Les Miserables" opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston MA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | New York Daily News begins using motto "Forward with New York". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | "Private Lives" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 37 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Record producer Lou Adler weds Paige Hannah (Daryl's sister). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | "Sunset Boulevard" closes at Minskoff NYC after 977 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | The 69th Academy Awards: The English Patient, Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush for Shine, Best Actress: Frances McDormand for Fargo. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1998 | * | 18th Golden Raspberry Awards: The Postman wins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1459 | * | Maximilian I of Habsburg German Emperor/archduke of Austria, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1599 | * | Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish artist (Charles I of England), the namesake of the beard style, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1609 | * | John II Casimir Vasa cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1684 | * | William Pulteney Bath, English Whig politician; opposed Sir Robert Walpole, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1700 | * | Giuseppe Sellitto composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1728 | * | Anton Raphael Mengs German writer/neo-classic painter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1728 | * | Giacomo Insanguine composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1752 | * | Johann Georg Joseph Spangler composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1767 | * | Cornelis T Elout Dutch minister of Finance, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1771 | * | Heinrich D Zschokke Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1785 | * | Adam Sedgwick Dent Yorkshire England, British geologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1797 | * | Kaiser Wilhelm I German emperor (1871-88), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1799 | * | F W A Argelander Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1803 | * | Anthonie Waldrop Dutch painter/lithographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1813 | * | Gabriel Rene Paul Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1814 | * | Thomas Crawford US sculptor (Babes in the Wood), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1817 | * | Braxton Bragg General (Confederate Army), died in 1876, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1819 | * | William Wirt Adams Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1822 | * | Ahmed Djevdet Pasha Turkish minister of Education/Justice, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1822 | * | Isaac D Fransen van de Putte Dutch premier (1866), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1822 | * | Seth Williams Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1866, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1824 | * | William Henry Chase Whiting Major General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1834 | * | Francis Asbury Shoup Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1834 | * | William Morris poet, artist, socialist reformer; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1842 | * | Carl A N Rosa German violinist/composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1842 | * | Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1846 | * | Randolph Caldecott England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1852 | * | Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1857 | * | Arnold Sauwen Flemish poet (Along the Meuse), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1857 | * | Paul Doumer Governor-General of Indo-China/13th President of France (1931-32), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1865 | * | Theophile Ysaye composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1867 | | Meijer Linnewiel [Professor Kokadorus], Amsterdam's pitchman, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1868 | * | Robert A Millikan, US physicist who won the 1923 Nobel Prize for his work on photoelectric effect, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1868 | * | Hamish MacCunn composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1868 | | Henry W Methorst lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | Ellen Glasgow novelist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | * | Arthur Vandenberg, American Republican senator, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1885 | * | Adriano Lualdi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1885 | * | Jakabs Medins composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | * | Chico Marx [Leonard Martin] of the Marx Brothers, is born in New York City. (American National Biography, ISBN 0-19-520635-5, 1999) | |
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| 1887 | * | Fatty (Roscoe Conkling) Arbuckle actor:The Lizzies of Mack Sennett Mabel and Fatty Keystone Comedies with Charlie Chaplin; died June 29, 1933 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1895 | * | Joseph Schildkraut Vienna Austria, actor (Flame of Barbary Coast, Joseph Schildkraut Presents), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1896 | * | Giulia D De Albertis, writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1896 | * | Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian-born American stage, television and film star, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1899 | * | Ruth Page, American dancer and choreographer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1899 | * | Capt. Dorothy Stratton organized SPARS [Semper Paratus Always Ready women’s branch of U.S. Coast Guard]; national executive director of Girl Scouts of America, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | * | Ellin Berlin [MacKay] Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Johannes Brinkman, Dutch architect, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1903 | * | James S Russell US pilot/Admiral (WWII Pacific Ocean), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Jochen Klepper writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Carlo Alberto Pizzini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Grigorij M Kosinzev Russian director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Phyllis McGinley poet, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Ruth Page US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | James Gavin, U.S. Army General who commanded the 82nd Airborne Division on D-Day, Operation Market-Garden and the Battle of the Bulge, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1907 | * | Paul J Steenbergen Netherlands, actor (Ciske Rat)/founder (Hague's Comedy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Louis D L'Amour Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1908 | * | Albrecht Goes writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Maurice H Stans Shakope MN, US Secretary of Commerce (1969-72), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Milt Kahl, Disney animator, is born. | Ref: 73 |
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| 1909 | * | Gabrielle Roy French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Jack Popplewell composer/playwright, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Nicholas Monsarret England, writer (Cruel Sea), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Richard (Nicholas Peter) Conte actor: I’ll Cry Tomorrow, The Godfather, Hotel, A Walk in the Sun, They Came to Cordura; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1912 | * | Wilfrid Brambell Dublin Ireland, actor (Hard Day's Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Henri Rousselot Admiral, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Lord Alport, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | James Westerfield Nashville TN, actor (Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Karl Malden Chicago IL, actor (Mike-Streets of San Francisco, American Express), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1913 | * | Martha Mödl German singer/soprano (Wagner), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Masao Maruyama, social scientist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Lord Stokes, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Forest Sagendorf cartoonist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | George Wyle New York NY, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Josephine van Gasteren Dutch actress/director (Bluejackets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | C S Pick publisher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Paul Rogers Plympton Devon England, actor (Looking Glass War, Billy Budd), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Virginia Grey Los Angeles CA, actress (Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight, Idaho), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Cheddi B Jagan dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Harry Kay vice-chancellor (Exeter University), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author: Coney Island of the Mind, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1920 | * | Werner Klemperer Emmy Award-winning actor: Hogan’s Heroes [1967-1968]; Ship of Fools; is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1920 | * | Fanny Waterman concert pianist & teacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | James Brown Desdemona TX, actor (Targets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Ross Martin (Martin Rosenblatt), Grodek Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), is born in Grodek Poland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Gene Nelson (Eugene Leander Berg) actor, dancer: Lullaby of Broadway, Oklahoma, Tea for Two, The West Point Story, The Atomic Man; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1921 | | Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer Netherlands, foreign minister (KVP), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Mujib ur-Rahman Pakistan, sheik/premier, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Stewart Stern screenwriter (Rebel Without A Cause), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Dave Appell arranger for big bands: Benny Carter, Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines; TV music director: The Ernie Kovacks Show; record producer: The Twist, Let's Twist Again, Bristol Stomp, South Street, In the Midnight Hour [w/Hank Medress]; singer, songwriter, musician: group: Dave Appell and the Applejacks, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1923 | * | Marcel Marceau, Strasbourg France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1923 | | Bryan Clieve Roberts lawyer/civil servant, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | | Cor N van Dis Jr Dutch MP (SGP, 1971-94), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Al Neuharth newspaper founder (USA Today), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Bill Wendell New York NY, TV announcer (Late Night With David Letterman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | | Colin Spedding CEO (Council of Science & Technology Institutes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Wolfgang Bächler writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Julius Marmur biochemist/geneticist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | | Lawrence Jackson Provost Emeritus (Blackburn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Viscount Bolingbroke, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Betty Callaway figure skating trainer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Bill Archer (Representative-Republican-TX, 1971- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | | DC Ingman CEO (British Waterways Board), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov soldier/historian, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Ed Macauley NBA'er (Boston Celtics), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Vanessa Brown (Smylla Brind) actress: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Three Husbands, The Fighter, Witch Who Came from the Sea; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1928 | * | Byron Janis (Yanks) pianist: NBC Symphony Orchestra; well-known piano performance on Hugo Winterhalter’s Rhapsody in Blue recording, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1930 | * | Pat Robertson (Marion Gordon Robinson) TV evangelist, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1930 | * | Derek Bok college president (Harvard), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Lynden O Pindling Prime Minister of Bahamas (1967-92), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Stephen Sondheim New York NY, lyricist/composer (Sweeney Todd, Into The Woods, West Side Story, A Little Night Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | (Terence Steven) Steve McQueen actor: The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Papillon, Towering Inferno, The Sand Pebbles, Love with the Proper Stranger, Hell is for Heroes, Bullitt, The Hunter, Le Mans; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1931 | * | William Shatner, Captain Kirk of Star Trek, is born in Montreal, Quebec. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Igor Hajek translator/writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Leslie Thomas author, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Richard Thomas Admiral, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | May Britt (Maybritt Wilkens) actress: The Young Lions, The Hunters, Murder, Inc., Haunts, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Buddy MacKay (Representative-Democrat-FL, 1983- ), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Senator Orrin Hatch (Sen-R-UT, 1977-) is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Leslie Turnberg President (Royal College of Physicians), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Sheila Cameron QC, Vicar-General (Province of Canterbury), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | William Smith biker, cowboy, actor: Eye of the Tiger, L.A. Vice, Maniac Cop, East L.A. Warriors, Emperor of the Bronx, Angels Die Hard, Platoon Leader, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | Gene (Eugene George) Oliver baseball: SL Cardinals, Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | M[ichael] Emmet Walsh Ogdensburg NY, actor (Wildcats, War Party), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Alan Bleasdale author/playwright (Are You Lonesome Tonight), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | May Britt [Maybritt Wilkens] Lidinga Sweden, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Philip Ely, President (British Law Society), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Roger Whittaker Nairobi Kenya, country singer (Durham Town), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Ron Carey union president (Teamsters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Johnny Ferguson singer: Angela Jones, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | * | Jon Hassell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Bob (John Robert) Tillman baseball: catcher: Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees, Atlanta Braves, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Singer Glen Campbell is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Vivian Pulliam horse trainer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Dick (Richard Clark) Ellsworth baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1964], Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | William Ritchie vice-chancellor (Lancaster University), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Bob Mackie fashion and costume designer: 6 Emmy Awards, 3 Academy Award nominations; client list includes: Cher, Carol Burnett, Diahann Carroll, Bernadette Peters, Madonna, Carol Channing and RuPaul, The Carol Burnett Show [entire 11-year TV run], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Bob Leiter hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, Atlanta Flames, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Bruno Ganz Zurich Switzerland, actor (Strapless, Wings of Desire), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Gary Lewis horse trainer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Barbara Parkins Vancouver British Columbia, actress (Peyton Place, Asylum), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Jon Arthur English composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | George Benson Pittsburgh PA, singer/guitarist (Greatest Love of All), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Joseph Schwantner composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Keith Relf Richmond London England, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love, Renaissance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Jeremy Clyde, Buckinghamshire England, rocker (Chad & Jeremy-Yesterday's Gone), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | R P Mardling headmaster (Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | T S "Tony" McPhee rocker (Sad Go Round), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Alan Opie baritone (Boughton Bethlehem, Britten 5 Canticles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Charles "Chuck" Jackson US singer (Playboy, Independents), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Paul Schockemöhle showjumper, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Don Chaney NBA player (Houston Rockets)/coach (Detroit Pistons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Laraine Ashton fashion models' agent (London), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker US, sci-fi author (Wetware), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Serge [Ruud Schaap] Dutch singer/guitarist (Saskia & Serge), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Lee Oskar (Oskar Hansen) musician: harmonica: group: War, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Harry Vanda [Vandenberg] Hague Netherlands, rock guitarist (Easybeats), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Patrick Olive percussionist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Priscilla Yates director (Royal Academy of Dancing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Andrew Lloyd Webber London England, composer (Evita, Starlight Express, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Randy Hobbs rocker (Johnny Winter Band, McCoys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Brian Hanrahan British TV newsman (BBC), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | D Watson director (Brighton University), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Fanny Ardant Monte Carlo, actress (Australia, Confidentially Yours), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Mary Tamm Dewsbury Yorkshire England, actress (Odessa File, Doctor Who), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Howard Reitzes Southgate CA, rocker (Iron Butterfly), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Musa Khiramanovich Manarov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-4, TM-11), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Pat Bradley golf champion: U.S. Open [1981], Nabisco Dinah Shore [1986], DuMaurier Classic [1980, 1985, 1986], LPGA [1986], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Dougie Thomson musician: bass: group: Supertramp: Dreamer, Bloody Well Right | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Earl Williams basketball: Boston Celtics, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Bob Costas (Robert Quinlan), Queens NY, sportscaster/talk show host (Later), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Peter McEvoy Australia, actor (Against the Innocent), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Thomas H Andrews (Representative-Democrat-ME), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Lena Olin actress: Romeo is Bleeding, Havana, After the Rehearsal, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Lena Olin Stockholm Sweden, actress (Enemies A Love Story), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Lyndsay Stephen Donnybrook WA, Australasia golfer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | George Sarton, Belgian-born American scholar, dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1957 | * | Stephanie Mills actress: The Wiz, In Cold Blood, Ultimate Deception, Cruel Justice, is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1958 | * | Joyce Lester Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Pete Wylie Liverpool England, rocker (Sinful), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Laurie Sargent rock vocalist (Face To Face), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Diane Pavich Melbourne Australia, golfer (1993 T50 Alpine Australia Ladies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Juan Aguilera Spain, tennis star, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Tim Elliott Perth WA, Australasia golfer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Hannu Virta Turku Finland, hockey defenseman (Team Finland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Rich Monteleone Tampa FL, pitcher (California Angels), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Suzanne Sulley Sheffield South Yorkshire, rocker (Human Leauge-Human), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Jeffrey Wagner Sydney New South Wales Australia, Australasia golfer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Brad Edwards NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Brian Shaw NBA guard (Orlando Magic, San Francisco Warriors), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Sean Berry Santa Monica CA, infielder (Houston Astros), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Todd Ewen Saskatoon, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Yahya Ayyash militant, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Ramon Martinez Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Russell Maryland NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Jason Rouser Tucson AZ, 200 meter/400 meter runner, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Reggie White NFL nose tackle (New England Patriots), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Travis Richards Crystal MN, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Lara Flynn Boyle actress: The Practice, Twin Peaks, Threesome, Wayne’s World, Dead Poets Society, Red Rock West, Poltergeist 3 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1971 | * | Richard Castillo jockey, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Elvis Stojko Richmond Hill Ontario, (Olympics-silver-94), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | John Farquhar tight end (New Orleans Saints), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Mikhail Sloutsky WLAF LB (Scotland Claymores), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Pieter Christiaan Prince of Netherlands, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Shawn Bradley NBA center (Dallas Mavericks, New Jersey Nets, Space Jams), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Joe Nedney kicker (Arizona Cardinals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Luther Elliss NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Kim Yun-Jung Miss Korea-Universe (1996), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Marcus Camby NBA forward (Toronto Raptors), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Tuomas Gronman NHL defenseman (Team Finland Olympics-Bronze-1998, Pittsburgh Steelers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Chris Bayne safety (Atlanta Falcons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Dax Griffin Atlanta GA, actor (Tim Truman-Sunset Beach), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Jiri Novak Czechoslovakia, tennis star, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Kellie Shanygne Williams Washington DC, actress (Laura-Family Matters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | | Reese Witherspoon is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1979 | * | Mariah Leanne Bergmann Miss Kansas Teen-USA (1997) | Ref: 5 |
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| 337 | * | Constantine Emperor of Rome, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1349 | * | Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre the Jews (who were blamed for black death). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1471 | * | George van Podiebrad king of Bohemia (1458-71), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1544 | * | Johannes Magnus, Swedish Roman Catholic archbishop and historian, dies at age 56. | Ref: 70 |
|---|
| 1589 | * | Lodovico Guicciardini Ital historian, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1622 | * | First Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites, Jamestown VA; 347 slain. | Ref: 5 |
|---|
| 1627 | | Cornelis van Aerssen Flemish Clerk of the House, dies at about 81. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1639 | * | Thomas Carew English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1661 | * | Hendrick Uylenburgh art dealer, buried at about 73. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1687 | * | Jean Baptiste Lully musician, opera composer: Cadmus and Hermione, Amadis de Gaule, Roland, Armide et Renaud; dies at age 54. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1743 | * | Jean-Baptiste Lully Ital/Fr composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1758 | * | Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin), dies at age 54. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1771 | * | Gottlieb W Rabener German author (Bremer Beiträge), dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1777 | * | John Bartram father of American botany, dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1796 | * | Gaspare Gabellone composer, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1798 | * | Justin Morgan composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1820 | * | US naval hero Stephen Decatur (“Our country right or wrong.”) is killed in a duel, at age 41, with Commodore James Barron near Washington DC. (Heidler, Encyclopedia of the War of 1812, 1997, ISBN 0-97436-968-1, p 150) | |
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| 1824 | * | Johann Melchior Dreyer composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
|---|
| 1832 | * | Johann Wolfgang Goethe, poet, novelist, dies at age 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1838 | * | Hendrik Fagel Dutch/English baron, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1845 | * | Franz Joseph Volkert composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1867 | * | Ferdinando Giorgetti composer, dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | Carlos Cespedes, Cuban revolutionary; early fighter for independence from Spain, dies at age 55. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1890 | * | Désiré de Haerne Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Martin Wegelius Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Gyula Erkel composer, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Louis A Ranvier French anatomist/historian, dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Theophile Delcassé French statesman, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | R G Nivelle French General (Verdun), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Anton Beer-Walbrun composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | ... Pucheu French Internal minister to Vichy, executed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | J Postuma Dutch resistance fighter, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Clemens A von Galen bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Werner Blomberg, German general and minister of war under Hitler, dies at age 67. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1951 | * | J Willem Mengelberg Dutch conductor (Matthäus Passion), dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | James Anderson II, actor (Jo-Northern Exposure), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | George A L Sarton, Belgian-born American scholar, historian, dies at age 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Michael Todd producer (Around the World in 80 Days), 1st husband of Elizabeth Taylor, is killed in a plane crash at age 56. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1962 | * | Aura Abranches Port actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio), dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Addison Richards actor (Colonel-Pentagon), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Ernst Deutsch [Dorian], Czechoslovakian actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Martin Bodmer writer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Peter Revson ‘Revvie’: Motor Sports Hall-of-Famer: is killed in a crash at Kyalami, South Africa at age 35. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | Asa Smith Bushnell Jr Secretary of US Olympics (1945-65), dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Cass Daley actress (Red Garters), dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Paul Verhoeven German director, dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Ben Lyon actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Disney animation director Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman died in an auto accident driving home from lunch at the SmokeHouse. | Ref: 73 |
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| 1986 | * | Charles Starrett actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Joan Shawlee actress (Abbott & Costello Show), dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Gloria Holden actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Dave Guard, singer, founder of the Kingston Trio, dies at age 56. (TWA, 1992) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1992 | * | US Air flight from NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at Laguardia, 27 die. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Gret Palucca German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Phia [Sophia R] Berghout Dutch harpist, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Dan Hartman US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Igor Aleinikov Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Luther Diamond radio Personality, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Walter Lantz US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Peter Woods newsreader, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Claude Mauriac, French novelist, journalist and critic, dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1996 | * | Robert Franklin Overmyer astronaut (STS 5, STS 51-B), dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | | Robert Mellors gay activist, dies at 47. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | | Ronald George Hayward political manager, dies at 78 | Ref: 5 |
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| 2001 | * | William Hanna cartoonist: half of Hanna-Barbera team: The Flintstones; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2001 | * | William Hanna cartoonist: half of Hanna-Barbera team: The Flintstones; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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