| 1118 | * | Pope Gelasius II excommunicates Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1348 | * | Prague U, first university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1456 | | Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1498 | * | Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence Italy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1521 | * | Inquisitor-General Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1541 | * | Spanish founder of the Jesuits Francis Xavier, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1625 | * | Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1628 | * | Jonas Michaelius, 51, arrived in New Amsterdam (New York City), the first minister of the Dutch Reformed Church to come to America. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1645 | * | Michael Cardozo becomes first Jewish lawyer in Brazil. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1652 | | The Dutch establish a settlement at Cape Town, South Africa under leader Jan van Riebeeck. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1655 | * | Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1773 | * | England orders all colonial governors to cease granting lands except to veterans of the French and Indian War. In Virginia, Dunmore gave this order the most liberal interpretation possible and included colonial troops as well as regular British Army soldiers. | |
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| 1780 | * | The capital of Virginia is moved to Richmond. | |
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| 1788 | * | First settlement in Ohio, at Marietta. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1796 | * | David Willson raises the first house in Greene County, Ohio, a log cabin with a dirt floor in Sugarcreek Twp. | Ref: 54 |
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| 1798 | * | The territory of Mississippi is organized. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1826 | * | The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad is chartered. | Ref: 7 |
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| 1831 | * | Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1851 | * | First postage stamp issued in Canada-3 penny black. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1860 | | Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1891 | * | Nebraska introduces the 8 hour work day. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | | SDAP demands General voting right/abolishing First Chamber. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | (Dreyfus) French Army Nationalists are revealed to have forged documents to guarantee a conviction for Alfred Dryfus. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1906 | | Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | The British House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Bill. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1919 | * | First parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | U.S. Secretary of Interior leases the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve #3 in Wyoming to Harry F Sinclair. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1923 | * | Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Vernon Boyer and Mabel Means, the parents of Ken(ton) and Cletis Boyer, are married. (Lipman, David, "Ken Boyer", ©1967) | |
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| 1926 | * | Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | The denial of the Medeiros motion is affirmed. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1931 | * | (Scottsboro Boys) (thru the 9th) Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Haywood Patterson, Olen Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, Eugene Williams, and Andy Wright are tried and convicted, and sentenced to death. The trial of Roy Wright ends in a mistrial when some jurors hold out for a death sentence even though the prosecution asked for life imprisonment. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1933 | * | (Prohibition) President Franklin Roosevelt signs legislation ending Prohibition in the United States. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1933 | * | University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | (Prohibition) Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | First 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bar Jews from legal & public service. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | | In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | The United States recognizes Nazi Germany's conquest of Austria. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1940 | * | Booker T. Washington became the first black to be pictured on a U.S. postage stamp. His likeness was issued on a 10-cent stamp this day. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Two Jewish inmates escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau and make it safely to Czechoslovakia. One of them, Rudolf Vrba, submits a report to the Papal Nuncio in Slovakia, which is forwarded to the Vatican, received there in mid-June. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1946 | | Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | The World Health Organization established by UN. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | The UN General Assembly elected Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden to be secretary-general. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | First west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | | German government refuses to recognize DDR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | President Dwight Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | | Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | The last of NY's electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | (Prohibition) Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | | Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | The Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1971 | * | The Greene County Room (formerly "The Greene County Corner") opens in the Xenia [OH] branch of the the Greene County Public Library. (XDG, p 5B, 9/30/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1971 | * | President Richard Nixon orders Lieutenant Calley (My Lai) free. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | The MITS Altair newsletter, Computer Notes, declares, "Altair BASIC -- Up and Running." | |
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| 1976 | * | China's leadership deposed Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1977 | * | Consumer Product Safety Commission bans the flame-retardant chemical "TRIS". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Belgium Eyskens government forms. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | | Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Former national security adviser John M. Poindexter was convicted of five counts at his Iran-Contra trial. (A federal appeals court later reversed the convictions.) | Ref: 70 |
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| 1991 | * | George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | The George J. Graham Track and Field Complex at Xenia (OH) High School is formally dedicated. (Ref: Heckart, Barbara Hooper, "A History Of Xenia Schools", 1994) | |
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| 1992 | * | PLO chairman Yasser Arafat survived the crash-landing of his plane in the Libyan desert; three crew members were killed. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1994 | * | Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for first time. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1998 | * | Mary Bono, the widow of entertainer-turned-politician Sonny Bono, won a special election to serve out the remainder of her husband's congressional term. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | | Israeli troops fight fierce battles with Palestinians in the West Bank, encountering stiff resistance in the Jenin refugee camp and in Nablus. (XDG, p. 6A, 4/07/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to uphold a 50-year-old Virginia law making it a crime to burn a cross as an act of intimidation. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1805 | * | Lewis & Clark: Lewis and Clark dispatch the big keelboat and roughly a dozen men back downriver, along with maps, reports, Indian artifacts, and boxes of scientific specimens for Jefferson (Indian corn, animal skins and skeletons, mineral samples, and five live animals including the prairie dog). The same day, the "permanent party" heads west, traveling in the two pirogues and six smaller dugout canoes. The expedition totals 33 now, including Charbonneau, Sacagawea, and her baby boy. "We were now about to penetrate a country at least two thousand miles in width, on which the foot of civilized man had never trodden," Lewis wrote, adding that "I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life." | Ref: 65 |
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| 1827 | * | English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | First brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | An audience in New York saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1943 | * | The drug LSD first synthesized by Albert Hoffman in Basel, Switzerland. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1959 | * | Radar first bounced off sun, Stanford Calif. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | IBM introduces its innovative System/360, the company's first line of compatible mainframe computers that gave customers the option of upgrading from lower-cost models to more powerful, expensive ones. (XDG, p 4A, 4/07/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1983 | * | STS-6 mission specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform first spacewalk in a decade as they work in the open bay of the Challenger for nearly four hours. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | | Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2001 | * | NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286-million-mile journey to the red planet. | Ref: 70 |
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| 451 | | Attila's Hun's plunder Metz. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1509 | * | France declares war on Venice. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1521 | | Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1584 | | Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1818 | * | General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks FL from Seminole Indians. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1862 | * | Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. 10,000 casualties on each side. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1862 | * | Island #10 falls after long siege, | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | The Naval Battle in Charleston Harbor, SC has Confederate guns turning back the Federal Navy, including several "unsinkable" ironclads. | Ref: 23 |
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| 1865 | * | Richmond, capital of the the Confederacy, falls to Union troops. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1865 | * | Battle of Farmville VA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Cuba and Panama at war with Germany. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1919 | * | Allies evacuate Odessa. | |
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| 1939 | * | Italy invades Albania. (Less than a week later, Italy annexed Albania.) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | British Naval Attache‚ Henry Denham sends a telegram to the British Admiralty from Copenhagen, Denmark, reporting sightings of German warships with likely destinations on Norway. The British Home Fleet sails from north Scotland, believing a large German fleet is staging a breakout into the Atlantic Ocean. | |
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| 1941 | * | The German submarine U-124 torpedoes and sinks Canadian merchant ship Portadoc west of Sierra Leone in the Central Atlantic Ocean. | |
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| 1941 | * | German forces invade Greece and Yugoslavia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1941 | * | British Generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Heavy German assault on Malta. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | British and American armies link up between Wadi Akarit and El Guettar in North Africa, forming a solid line against the German army. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | * | Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded in allied air raid. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | General Montgomery speaks to Generals about invasion plan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | The Japanese battleship Yamato, the world's largest battleship, is sunk during the battle for Okinawa. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1945 | * | American forces discover a mineshaft at Merkers loaded with gold and valuables from the Reichsbank. It is valued at US $241 million. | |
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| 1945 | * | B29s fly their first fighter-escorted mission against Japan with P-51 Mustangs based on Iwo Jima; U.S. carrier-based fighters sink the super battleship YAMATO and several escort vessels which planned to attack U.S. forces at Okinawa. | |
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| 1945 | * | American planes intercept a Japanese fleet headed for Okinawa on a suicide mission during World War II. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1945 | * | First & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | President Lyndon B. Johnson authorizes the use of ground troops in combat operations. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1967 | | Israeli/Syrian border fights. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | President Nixon pledges a withdrawal of 100,000 more men from Vietnam by December. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1988 | * | Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghánistán. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | | European warplanes begin arriving in Italy in preparation for enforcing a no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina. (XDG, p. 6A, 4/07/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1994 | | Civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane crash claimed the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. In the months that followed, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis, plus Hutu intellectuals, were slaughtered. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1999 | | Yugoslav authorities seal off Kosovo's main border crossing, preventing ethnic Albanians from leaving as the wave of refugees approaches the half-million mark. (XDG, p 4A, 4/07/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2002 | * | (Afghan Conflict) Two US pilots drop a bomb in Afghanistan accidentally killing four Canadians. Subsequently, lawyers for the pilots will argue that the pilots were given amphetiamines to help keep them awake before the mission and anti-depressants after the mission. (XDG, p. 14, 1/15/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | US tanks rumble through downtown Baghdad and a B-1B bomber attack hit buildings where Saddam and other leaders again were said to be meeting. (XDG, p 5A, 4/21/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | British forces finally take Basra, in southern Iraq. (XDG, p 5A, 4/21/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1864 | | The first camel race in America was held. Nope -- not in the Mojave Desert; but in Sacramento, California. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1925 | * | As he is playing first base, A's Joe Hauser's kneecap shatters spontaneously. His other knee would shatter in the same way a few years later. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1928 | * | 44-year old New York Ranger General Manager Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, & beats Montréal Maroons 2-1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Seals Stadium opens in San Francisco. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | 7th Golf Masters Championship Jimmy Demaret beats Lloyd Mangrum, shooting a 280. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | NFL adopts free substitution rule. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | 10th Golf Masters Championship Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | The Phillies trade infielder Ralph LaPointe and give $30,000 to the Cardinals to obtain first baseman Dick Sisler. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1951 | | American Bowling Congress begins first masters tournament. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | 15th Golf Masters Championship Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | 10th NBA Championship Philadelphia Warriors beat Fort Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | 21st Golf Masters Championship Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at Los Angeles Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the 27th Masters Tournament. The ‘Golden Bear’ earned the win at one of golf’s premier events at the age of 23. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | After throwing the first two pitches of the season, Don Drysdale finds himself and his team trailing the Reds, 2-0. The Los Angeles' right-hander, after giving up back-to-back homers to Pete Rose and Bobby Tolan settles down and the Dodgers comeback to win the game, 3-2. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1969 | * | Ted Williams makes his managerial debut in front of President Nixon and a crowd of 45,000 at Washington's RFK Stadium. His Senators are defeated by the Yankees, 8-4. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1969 | * | Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with first official save, against Reds. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | The Milwaukee Brewers played their first game on April 7 as a member of the American League West before 37,237 enthusiastic fans at County Stadium as Lew Krausse drops a 12-0 decision to Andy Messersmith and the California Angels. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1971 | * | Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by Supreme Court. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Bob Foster, WBC light-heavyweight boxing champion, KO's Vicente Rondon, WBA light-heavyweight champion, in the 2nd round in Miami, unifying the light-heavyweight title. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1973 | * | Indians set an Opening Day attendance mark as 74,420 fans watch the Tribe trim Tigers, 2-1. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1977 | * | 44,649 fans brave snow and freezing temperatures as Major League baseball makes a successful debut in Toronto. Doug Ault becomes an instant hero hitting two home runs in the Toronto Blue Jays 9-5 win over the Chicago White Sox. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1978 | * | US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Ken Forsch of Houston pitched a no-hitter over the Atlanta Braves, 6-0. Forsch walked only two batters. It was the earliest no-hitter ever pitched in a baseball season. He and his brother, Bob, a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, were the only brothers to ever pitch no-hitters in the big leagues. Bob threw a no-hitter on April 16, 1978. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1979 | | Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Pittsburgh Penguins 1-New York Islanders 8-Preliminary-Islanders hold 1-0 lead. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | | WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day event. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Washington Capitals 4-New York Islanders 2-Patrick Division Semifinals-series tied 1-1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Jack Morris of the Detroit Tigers tied the record for the earliest no-hitter in a season when he whipped Chicago 4-0. A national television audience saw Morris strike out eight batters and walk six in the first no-hitter thrown in Comiskey Park, Chicago, in 17 years. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | * | Herschel Walker of the New Jersey Generals broke the single-game rushing mark in the United States Football League (USFL). He gained 233 yards while leading the Generals past Houston 31-25. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | * | 14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Red Sox outfielder Dwight Evans becomes the first player to hit the first pitch on Opening Day for a home run. Jack Morris throws the gopher ball but gets the win as the Tigers edges Boston, 6-5. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1986 | | Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Braves Rick Mahler hurls his third Opening Day shutout tying a NL record. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1987 | * | The Atlanta Braves unveil their newest mascot "Homer the Brave", who replaces "Rally", who lasted only about a year. (Blount, Rachael, "The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution" p E4, 4/08/1987) (Courtesy Scott Sutton) | |
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| 1988 | * | Reds' rookie third baseman, Chris Sabo, ties a major league record with eleven assists in one game. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1988 | * | Devils 3-2 over Isles, first round tied 1-1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | | NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | | Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | The 3rd Seniors Golf Tradition is won by Jack Nicklaus. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Chris Johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Dante Bichette hits the first Colorado Rockie homerun (Shea Stadium, New York). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | First night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | New York Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | 8th Seniors Golf Tradition Jack Nicklaus wins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1999 | * | PNC Park ceremonial groundbreaking takes place and the Sixth Street Bridge is renamed the Roberto Clemente Bridge. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2000 | * | Devil Rays retire uniform No. 12 in honor of Wade Boggs. Although the former Red Sox and Yankee third baseman only spent just two years with Tampa Bay, he hit the franchise's first HR and became he 23rd member of the 3,000-hit club as a member of the team. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | In 15 games, a record total of 57 home runs are hit in the major leagues two more than the August 13, 1999 mark established in 17 games; 36 AL homers sets the record for a league in one day, surpassing the previous mark by 6. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | The Astros play a regular-season game outdoors in Houston for the first time since 1965 as Houston opens Enron Field with a 6-1 loss to the Phillies. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | Berley W. Visgar is sentenced to 90 days in jail and is fined $1,000 by Circuit Judge Michael Brennan for going on County Stadium's field last season and jumping onto the back of Astros' outfielder Bill Spiers. Although Visgar has no prior criminal record, the judge believes a harsh sentence will hopefully stop fans from similar actions in the future. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | The Tampa Bay Devil Rays host the Cleveland Indians at Tropicana Field. It is the first professional baseball game played on Field Turf, artificial grass that has all the characteristics of natural grass. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1724 | * | Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1805 | * | Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1888 | | P.F. Collier published a weekly periodical for the first time. Collier’s later became the publication’s name. The magazine was popular for 69 years. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1888 | * | Fiction: Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" (BG). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | | De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos", premieres in Madrid. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | | James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her", premieres in London. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Britain's popular family vacation camping resort, Butlins, opens first branch at Skegness. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1947 | * | First annual Tony Awards for American theatre presented in New York; named for Antoinette Perry. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1949 | * | "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater (for 1925 performances). | Ref: 17 |
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| 1954 | * | Gee, by The Crows, became the first rhythm and blues single to gain attention on pop music charts. Gee, written by William Davis, the baritone of The Crows, made it to #17 on the pop music chart and stayed for one week. This was also one of the first songs by a black group to be played on white radio stations. The Crows came together in the late 1940s in New York City, singing on street corners. Daniel ‘Sonny’ Norton (lead singer), Harold Major (tenor), Gerald Hamilton (bass) and Davis entered a talent contest at the Apollo Theatre and that was the beginning of their recording career. The group split up in the late 1950s. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | | Arthur Hailey had a script accepted and presented just 20 days after it was submitted to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The drama, Flight into Danger, had an unprecedented audience response. A number of years later, Arthur Hailey also wrote the best-selling novel, Airport; which was then adapted for the popular movie by the same title. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | Progressive Rock radio begins-KMPX-FM, San Francisco, with DJ Tom Donahue. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | John Wayne, a movie veteran of over 200 films, won his first and only Oscar. The Duke earned an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in True Grit, also starring Kim Darby and Glen Campbell. It is estimated that movie-goers paid over $500 million to see John Wayne in his many films which include: The Big Trail, Reap the Wild Wind, The Long Voyage Home, Red River, The Quiet Man and The Sands of Iwo Jima (the only other film to earn him an Oscar nomination). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds", premieres in NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | 42nd Academy Awards "Midnight Cowboy", John Wayne & Maggie Smith win. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Vicki Lawrence got her number one single as The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia made it to the top of the pop charts on this day. Lawrence had become well known as the comedienne who played Eunice’s mother on The Carol Burnett Show and Mama’s Family. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | Herb Gardner's "Thieves", premieres in NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Prince ended his 32-city tour and said that he was withdrawing from live performances for “an indeterminate number of years.” The last city on the tour was Miami, FL. He meant it so much, he even changed his a symbol and the name TAFKAP (The Artist Formerly Known As Prince). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | * | First live telecast of Easter Parade. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | National Museum of Female Physicians opens in Washington DC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | A display of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs opens at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center. The same day the center and its director are indicted on obscenity charges. Both are later acquitted. (XDG, p 4A, 4/7/2001) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1990 | * | Farm Aid IV concert. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | "Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | "Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 169 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1506 | * | St Francis Xavier Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1534 | * | José de Anchieta Spanish jesuit/missionary (Brazilian Tupi-Indians), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1613 | * | Gerard Dou Dutch painter (Night School), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1622 | * | Louise Hollandine daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1629 | | Juan José of Austria, Spanish General/Governor of Netherlands, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1648 | * | Ferdinand van Kessel Flemish painter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1652 | * | Clement XII [Lorenzo Corsini], Italy, Pope (1730-40), is born. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1694 | * | Coelestin Praelisauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1699 | * | Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1727 | * | Henri Hardouin composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1727 | * | Michel Adanson French biologist (Natural History of Sénégal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1745 | * | Georg Druschetzky composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1748 | * | Georg Wenzel Ritter composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1756 | * | Charles Felix King of Sardina (1821-31), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1763 | * | Domenico Dragonetti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1768 | * | Karl Theodor Toeschi composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1770 | * | William Wordsworth, English poet laureate from 1843-50 ("The Prelude," "Lyrical Ballards"), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1772 | * | F M Charles Fourier French socialist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1775 | * | Francis C Lowell founded first raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1780 | * | William Ellery Channing US, Unitarian clergyman, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1786 | * | William Rufus DeVane King (D) 13th U.S. Vice President: first VP to have served in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; took the only presidential or vice presidential oath ever administered outside of the United States [Havana, Cuba]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1801 | * | Henry Eagle Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1803 | * | Flora Tristan writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1805 | * | Francis Wilkinson Pickens (Governor-SC, Confederacy), died in 1869, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1819 | * | Hubert Leonard composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1820 | | György Klapka Hungarian General/MP (Komárom-castle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1822 | * | Gershom Mott Major General (Union volunteers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1826 | * | Johann Hermann Berens composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1841 | * | Alfred Cogniaux Belgian botanicus, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1841 | * | Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys painter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1846 | * | William Pinkerton, son of Allan Pinkerton of the famous detective agency, is born. ("Who Was Who in America, 1897-1942") | |
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| 1847 | * | Jens Peter Jacobsen, Danish novelist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1848 | * | Randall Davidson, English religious leader, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1851 | * | Otto Adolf Klauwell composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1858 | | Adrien H Gerhard Dutch socialist politician (SDAP), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1859 | * | Walter Camp Connecticut, father of American football (Yale), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1860 | * | W.K. Kellogg, American industrialist and founder of the W.K. Kellogg Company, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1869 | * | David Grandison Fairchild US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to US, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | | Gustav Landauer German socialist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | Joseph Ryeland Belgian composer/Baron, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1872 | * | William Monroe Trotter famous African, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1873 | * | John (Joseph) ‘Mugsy’ McGraw ‘Little Napoleon’: Baseball Hall of Famer: Baltimore Orioles [1891-1899/champs: 1894-1897], SL Cardinals [1900], Baltimore Orioles [1901-1902], NY Giants [1902-1906]; manager: NY Giants: most World Series losses [6]; former baseball commissioner; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1878 | * | Jozef C Bittremieux Flemish theologist (Virgin & Mother of God), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | Kurt von Schleiger German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | * | Birth of Charles. H. Dodd, English clergyman and Bible scholar. Dodd became the most influential British New Testament scholar of the mid-20th century, and penned over a dozen books, including "The Parables of the Kingdom" (1934). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | | Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal Dutch politician/resistance fighter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1889 | * | Gabriela Mistral Chilean poet (Desolaci¢n, Tenderness) (Nobel 1945), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1890 | * | Marjory Stoneman Douglas environmentalist (1st Lady of Everglades), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1891 | * | Sir David Low, New Zealand-born English journalist, political cartoonist and caricaturist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1893 | * | Irene Castle (Foote) dancer, costume designer, actress: The Whirl of Life, The First Law, The Broadway Bride, French Heels, Broadway After Dark; subject of movie: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle [1939]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1893 | * | Allen Dulles, American diplomat and director of the C.I.A. (1953-61), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1894 | * | Gerald Brenan English writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | | Bert Wheeler is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1895 | * | Eduardo Toldra composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | Lewis B Combs naval commander/civil engineer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1896 | * | Benny Leonard (Benjamin Lenier), lightweight boxing champion (1917-25), is born in New York. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1897 | * | Walter Winchell Harlem NYC, newscaster/columnist (Untouchables), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | Robert Marcel Casadesus French pianist/composer (Prix Diémer) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | Tebbs Lloyd Johnson England, 50K walker (Olympic-bronze-1952), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Willi Forst Austrian actor/director (Im weissen Rössl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | W. Warrick Cardozo, physician, researcher of Sickle Cell Anemia, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1908 | * | Percy Faith Grammy Award-winning orchestra leader, composer: The Theme from "A Summer Place" [1960]; My Heart Cries for You [Guy Mitchell hit], Delicado, Song from Moulin Rouge, Theme for Young Lovers; is born in Toronto, Canada. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1908 | | Le Duan Vietnamese politician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | | John Adrian Hope politician/businessman, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Valère Depauw Flemish writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Sydney Thompson rock climber, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Billie Holiday [Eleanora Fagan] Philadelphia PA, singer (Ain't Nobody's Business), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Henry Kuttner US, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were, Startling Worlds of Henry Kuttner), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Mongo (Ramon) Santamaria bandleader, composer, musician: conga drums: Afro Blue, Watermelon Man; appeared in film: Made in Paris; played with Perez Prado and Tito Puente; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1917 | * | R.G. Armstrong Birmingham Ala, actor (T.H.E. Cat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Peanuts Hucko Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Ronald Howard Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Style), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Peter Aryans [PCJ Vander] Dutch radio actor (Shoot Out), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Ralph Flanagan, pianist/arranger: Sammy Kaye, Blue Barron, Charlie Barnet, Gene Krupa, Tony Pastor, Boyd Raeburn, Alvino Rey, Tony Martin, Mindy Carson, Perry Como Supper Club radio show; bandleader: Nevertheless, Rag Mop, Harbor Lights, Slow Poke, Hot Toddy; theme song: Singing Winds, is born in Loraine OH. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1919 | * | Edoardo Mangiarotti Italy, épée (Olympics-gold-1952), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Ravi Shankar sitarist: played at Woodstock [1969] and with George Harrison in the Bangla-Desh Benefit concerts [1971]; was George Harrison’s sitar teacher; was resident lecturer at CCNY, is born in Benares India. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1920 | * | Terence Edward Armstrong polar geographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Kenneth Howard Peacock composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Nick Perito Denver Colo, orch leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Harry Cordon comic/host (Fred Haché Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Ikuma Dan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Johannes Rood Dutch immunologist (Eurotransplant), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1928 | * | Alan J Pakula director (All the President's Men, Klute), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | James Garner (James Scott Bumgarner) actor: Rockford Files, Maverick, The Americanization of Emily, Victor/Victoria, Tank, A Man Called Sledge, Duel at Diablo, The Distinguished Gentleman, My Fellow Americans, Space Cowboys, is born in Norman, Oklahoma | Ref: 4 |
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| 1928 | * | James White UK, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Andrew Sachs actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Daniel Ellsberg author: known for releasing Pentagon Papers to the NY Times, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1931 | * | Donald Barthelme Phila Pa, writer (Snow White, Sadness), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Louis "Mr Bo" Collins Indianola MS, blues singer (If Trouble Was Money), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Wayne Rogers, actor: M*A*S*H, Cool Hand Luke, Passion in Paradise, Pocket Money, The Killing Time, Chiefs, The Gig, is born in Birmingham AL. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | Ian Richards Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Montgomery-Ike), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Bobby Bare Grammy Award-winning country singer: Detroit City [1964]; All America Boy [as Bill Parsons], Shame on Me, 500 Miles Away from Home; actor: A Distant Trumpet, is born in Irontown OH. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | Hodding Carter III press secretary (Jimmy Carter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Yvonne Fedderson co-founder (Childhelp USA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Gail Cogdill football: Detroit Lions [one of the Lion’s all-time receiving champs], Baltimore Colts, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | * | [Big] Charlie Thomas New York NY, jazz/rock singer (Drifters), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Spencer Dryden musician: drums: group: Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship: Somebody to Love, White Rabbit, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Freddie Hubbard Indpls, jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Yvonne Lime Glendale CA, actress (Father Knows Best, Dobie Gillis), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | [Edmund G] Jerry Brown Jr San Francisco CA, (Governor-Democrat-CA, 1975-83), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Television personality David Frost is born in Tenderdon, England. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1939 | * | Francis Ford Coppola Academy Award-winning director: The Godfather: Part II [1974], screenwriter: Patton [1970], The Godfather [1973], The Godfather: Part II [1974]; The Godfather: Part III, Apocalypse Now, Finian’s Rainbow, Peggy Sue Got Married, is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Donald L Holmquest Dallas TX, astronaut, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Jan Wilhelm Morthenson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Patricia Paay Dutch singer (You are not hip), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Edda Barends actress (Arthur & Eva), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Mick Abrahams rock guitarist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick), is born in Luton Bedfordshire England. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Roberta Shore, Monterrey Park, Calif, actress/singer (Virginian), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Spencer Dryden rocker (Jefferson Airplane-Go Ask Alice), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Bill Kreutzmann Palo Alto CA, drummer (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Barbara Benary composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Patricia Bennett singer: The Chiffons: Tonight’s the Night, He’s So Fine, One Fine Day, A Love So Fine, I Have a Boyfriend, Sweet Talkin’ Guy, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | John Oates songwriter, singer: group: Hall and Oates: She’s Gone, Sara Smile, Rich Girl, I Can’t Go for That, Private Eyes, Maneater, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Janis Ian [Janis Fink], NYC, folk singer (Society's Child, At 17), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Janis Ian [Janis Eddy Fink] New York NY, folk singer (Society's Child, At 17), is born. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | John Dittrich Union NJ, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Jane Frederick US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1976), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Everard Endt US, yachting (Olympic-gold-1952), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Donna White LPGA golfer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Jackie Chan martial art actor (Rumble in the Bronx), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Tony Dorsett NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys, Heisman Trophy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Andrea Fisher artist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Gail Lee Hirata LPGA golfer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Alexandra Neil Boston, actress (Rose-Guiding Light), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Tony Aire rocker (Adventures-Sea of Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Buster (James) Douglas boxing champion: defeated Mike Tyson, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | Simon Climie rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Andy Hampsten Columbus OH, cyclist (Olympics-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Bonny Warner Mount Baldy CA, lugist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Hugh Edward Ralph O'Connor actor (In the Heat of the Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | | Russell Crowe is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1964 | * | Helen Wadsworth S Wales, golfer (Curtis Cup 1990), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Joe Durant Pensacola FL, Nike golfer (1992 Boise Open-7th), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Alexander Mronz Cologne Germany, tennis star, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Teri Ann Linn Honolulu HI, actress (Kristen-Bold & Beautiful), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Steve Wisniewski NFL guard (Oakland Raiders), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Bill Bellamy actor (Fled, How to be a Player, Joey Breaker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Don[ald] Smith North Tonawanda NY, rower (Olympics-5th-1996), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Clark Sheehan Denver CO, cyclist (Olympics-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Jeremy Lincoln NFL cornerback (Chicago Bears, Seattle Seahawks), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Peggy Clasen St Paul MN, speed skater (Olympics-1994), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Ricky Bones Salinas Puerto Rico, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers, New York Yankees), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Ricky Watters NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Alexander Karpovtsev Moscow Russia, NHL defenseman (New York Rangers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Kevin Smith NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Cara Kendra Bernosky Miss Pennsylvania-USA (1997), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Mark Thompson Russellville KY, pitcher (Colorado Rockies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Stephen Brimacombe Australian 100 meter/200 meter (Olympics-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Victor Kraatz Berlin Germany, Canadian ice dancer (1995 World Champions-4th), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Greg Clark tight end (San Francisco 49ers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Joanne Brown Australian softball catcher/1st baseman (Olympics-bronze-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Lovett Purnell wide receiver (New England Patriots), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Malcolm Huckaby NBA guard (Miami Heat), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Shana Williams Bridgeton NJ, long jumper/heptathlete, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Anita Maxwell WNBA forward (Cleveland Rockers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Beverly Peele super model (Elle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Ronde Barber cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Tiki Barber running back (New York Giants), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Victoria Adams "Posh Spice", Hertfordshire, vocalist (Spice Girls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Erich Goldmann Dingolfing Germany, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Siobhan Drake-Brockman Bunbury Australia, tennis star (1994 Port Pirie) | Ref: 5 |
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| 30 | * | Most likely date of the crucifixion of Christ according to "The Calendar" by Philips, Cambridge 1921. | Ref: 5 |
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| 924 | * | Berengarius I Emperor of Italy, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1444 | * | John Capreolus French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1524 | * | Philip of Burgundy bishop of Utrecht, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1614 | * | El Greco Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1719 | * | Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French philanthropist and founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, dies at age 78. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1739 | * | Richard (Dick) Turpin, highwayman, is executed at York. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1766 | * | Tiberius Hemsterhuis Dutch classicist, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1767 | * | Franz Sparry composer, dies at 51. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1768 | * | Michel Mathieu composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1778 | * | Johann Balthasar Kehl composer, dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1783 | * | Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1789 | * | Abdül-Hamid I 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89), dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1789 | * | Peter Camper anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1803 | | [François Dominique] Toussaint L'Ouverture Haitian revolutionary, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1810 | | Pieter L van de Kasteele Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1816 | * | Richard Sheridan playwright: The Critic, School for Scandal, The Rivals; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1833 | * | Antoni Henryk Radziwill Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1842 | * | Henrik A Bjerregaard Norwegian writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1850 | * | William Lisle Bowles English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1858 | * | Anton Diabelli Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1862 | * | Sydney Nelson composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1871 | * | Alexander, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 1 day old. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1871 | * | Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff Austrian Admiral (Helgoland/Lissa), dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1875 | * | Georg Herwegh writer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1877 | * | Errico Petrella composer, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1880 | * | Diederich Krug composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte Corsican MP, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | * | Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1891 | * | Phineas T. (P.T.) Barnum, circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Spyridon Filiskos Samaras composer, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo Calif). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Erv A Kelley US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | William Monroe Trotter civil rights activist/journalist, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Marilyn Miller, American musical comedy actress, dies at age 37. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1943 | * | Jovan Ducic Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Industrialist Henry Ford dies in Dearborn, Michigan, at age 83. Ref | |
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| 1950 | * | Walter Huston (Houghston) Academy Award-winning actor: Treasure of the Sierra Madre [1948]; Duel in the Sun, December 7th: The Movie; dies at age 66. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | Theda Bara actress (Camille, Cleopatra, 2 Orphans), dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Theda Bara (Goodman) actress: A Fool There Was, The Unchastened Woman, The Love Goddesses; dies at age 99. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Judge Jackson composer, dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov composer, dies at 58. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Marian Jordan radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Jesus Guridi composer, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Yusef Greiss composer, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Anne Morrison Chapin dies in West Hollywood. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Jim Clark, Scottish auto racer: Indpls 500 winner [1965]; is killed in a crash. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1970 | * | Josina Machel wife of Mozambique's first President Samora Machel, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, Dutch equestrian; won Olympic medals in 1924, 1928 and 1932, dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1972 | * | "Crazy" Joe Gallo mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Abeid Karume Tanzanian sheik/President, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Victor Wong actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Nick Stuart bandleader, dies of cancer at 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Mary Margaret McBride TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Siegfried Buback German Federal Republic procureur-General, murdered Attorney-General. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Ernest Kanitz composer, dies at 83. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Bruno Apitz writer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Brenda Benet actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at 36. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Gavin Gordon television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Samuel G Engel screenwriter/poet, dies of heart failure at 79. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Frank Church (Senator-Democrat-OH, 1957-81), dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Maxine Sullivan (Marietta Williams) singer: Loch Lomand, Cockles and Mussels, If I Had a Ribbon Bow; films & stage: Goin’ Places, St. Louis Blues, Swingin’ the Dream, Midsummer Night’s Dream [w/Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman]; dies at age 75. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | John Lehmann, English poet, editor and publisher, dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1988 | * | Cesar Bresgen Austrian composer/organist, dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | A Soviet nuclear-powered submarine, the Komsomolets, catches fire and sinks in the Norwegian Sea, claiming 42 lives. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Tikhon Toropets patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint, dies at 123(?). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Double-decker ferry sank in Gyaing River in Myanmar (Burma) during a storm and 215 persons were believed drowned. | Ref: 85 |
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| 1990 | * | An arson fire aboard a ferry en route from Norway to Denmark kills 158 people, ~360 escape. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1990 | * | Scandinavian Star: suspected arson fire aboard Danish-owned North Sea ferry killed at least 110 passengers in Skagerrak Strait off Norway. | Ref: 85 |
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| 1991 | * | Ruth Page, American dancer and choreographer, dies at age 92. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1992 | * | Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Clovis Ruffin fashion designer (T shirt dress), dies of AIDS at 46. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | | Rick Emery dies after long illness at 39. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Arleen Whelan actress: Never Wave at a WAC, Ramrod; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1993 | * | Max Croiset Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Richard Schmiechen dies of AIDS at 45. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Agathe Uwilingiyimana PM of Rwanda, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann German/US historian, dies at 85. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Arthur Gordon Clough journalist, dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Evert Hartman Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | François de Grossouvre, President Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Lee Brilleaux British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb architect, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Ian Spurling ballet designer, dies at 59 | Ref: 5 |
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| 2000 | * | Heinz Burt musician: bass: group: The Tornados: Telstar, Globetrotter; solo: Just like Eddie; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2001 | * | (Long Island) Beatrice Straight, Old Westbury NY, Academy Award-winning actress: Network [1976]; Poltergeist, Bloodline, Endless Love; Tony Award: The Crucible [1953]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2001 | * | An unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants was fatally shot by a white police officer in Cincinnati, sparking three days of riots. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | Actor John Agar dies in Burbank CA at age 81. (XDG, p. 6A, 4/07/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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