| 1065 | * | Pilgrims under bishop Günther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1111 | * | Anti-Pope Silvester IV ends his reign as anti-Pope. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1111 | * | Pope Paschalis II crowns Henry V, Roman emperor. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1385 | * | Willem van Oostervant weds Philip the Stout's daughter Margaretha (10). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1583 | * | William of Orange marries Louise de Coligny. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1606 | * | England adopts the original version of the Union Jack as its flag. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1631 | * | The first militia established by Massachusetts Bay Colony. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1648 | * | University of Harderwijk Netherlands solemn opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1654 | * | England, Ireland & Scotland unite. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1713 | | Dutch State-General signs peace with France Netherlands loses Orange Princedom. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1770 | * | In Parliament, the Townshend Revenue Act is repealed, except for the tax on tea. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1776 | * | Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1787 | * | Philadelphia's Free African Society forms. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1799 | * | The Church Missionary Society was organized in London under the original name of the Society for Missions in Africa and the East. This Anglican missions agency currently works in fields located in Africa, Ceylon, India, Pakistan, Iran, Palestine and the Far East. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1811 | * | The first US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1844 | * | Texas became a US territory. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1847 | * | Yung Wing, one of several Chinese students to arrive in America this day, went on to become the first student from China to graduate from Yale University [1854]. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1859 | * | Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of San Francisco incorporates. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1869 | * | North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1877 | * | British annex Transvaal, in South Africa. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1882 | * | The Evangelical Reformed Church in Northwest Germany was created by royal decree when the king of Prussia ordered the 124 "reformed" congregations scattered throughout the area to become incorporated as an independent territorial church. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Voters in Lockport, NY became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1894 | | British & Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay to Navy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | | Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer, resigns. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | (day unspecifed) Sacco and his brother Sabino emigrate to the United States. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1908 | * | Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea MA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | An 11-day constitutional convention in Hot Springs, Arkansas, ended. During its sessions, the Assemblies of God denomination was founded. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | American cavalrymen and Mexican bandit troops clash at Parrel, Mexico. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1919 | * | British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | The British Cabinet comes out in favor of voting rights for women. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1928 | * | Assassination attempt on king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | | Spanish voters reject the monarchy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Moffatt Field commissioned. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mount Washington NH, 231 mph. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | The Greene County [OH] Museum Association is formed. (XDG, p 9A, 8/05/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1935 | * | Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | 1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (NY). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Dutch Catholic University Nijmegen closed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Otto Frisch completes criticality and "zero-yield" experiments with U-235 at Los Alamos. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd US President. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Syria gains independence from France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Israeli Knesset officially designates April 13 as Holocaust Day. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | | Salaheddine Baccouche forms Tunisian government. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | | Belgian Van Houtte government resigns. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | | Bandaranaike government forms in Ceylon. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | San Mateo County withdraws from BART district (San Francisco Bay area). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1971 | | Bangladesh government claims sovereignty over East Pakistan. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1973 | * | France recognizes North Vietnam. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | | Sudan adopts constitution. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | | Swaziland suspends constitution. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | BCMA (Black Consciousness Movement of Azania) forms. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Harold Washington is elected the first black mayor of Chicago. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1983 | * | USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | 20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Texaco files for bankruptcy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliment, acknowledges responsibilty for Nazi holocaust & asks for forgiveness. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Defense Secretary Dick Cheney announces plans to close 31 major US military bases, including Fort Ord in California and Fort Dix in New Jersey. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | | Nepalese Congress party wins general elections. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | (Trump) Trump Shuttle becomes US Air Shuttle. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Earthquake rocks Germany. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of UN. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | President Clinton named US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to succeed the late Ron Brown as commerce secretary. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1999 | * | U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found President Clinton in contempt of court for giving "intentionally false" testimony in a lawsuit filed by Paula Jones about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1999 | * | A jury in Little Rock AR acquits Susan McDougal of obstructing Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's Whitewater inquiry and deadlocked on two other charges, causing a mistrial. (XDG, p 4A, 4/12/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2000 | * | Attorney General Janet Reno met in Miami with the US relatives of Elian Gonzalez, after which she ordered them to bring the six-year-old boy to an airport the next day so he could be taken to a reunion with his father in Washington. (Elian was seized by federal agents ten days after Reno's order to turn him over.). | Ref: 6 |
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| 2001 | * | Cincinnati Mayor Charles Luken declared a state of emergency amid the worst outbreak of racial violence in the city since 1968. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resigned under pressure from the country's divided military. (He was returned to office two days later). | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | The Xenia Daily Gazette announces on page 1A that Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, the information officer conducting most of the press briefings in Iraq from Doha, Qatar, attended the Lucinda Cook Lab School in Wilberforce, near Xenia OH circa 1959. | Ref: 83 |
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| 1682 | * | In London, French inventor Denis Papin prepares first meal in a pressure cooker ("steam digester"). | Ref: 10 |
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| 1799 | * | Phineas Pratt patented the comb cutting machine -- a “machine for making combs.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1833 | * | Charles Gaylor patents the fireproof safe in New York City. The safes are widely used to protect everything from priceless art to sensitive computer software. Some safes can burn at 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour and the contents will still be as cool as a cucumber. Other units can sustain heat up to 400-500 degrees for about the same time without damaging the valuable contents within. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1892 | * | George C Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | French Dufaux brothers test helicopter. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | Pierre Prier completes the first non-stop London-Paris flight in three hours and 56 minutes. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1955 | * | The polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was termed “safe, effective and potent” by the University of Michigan Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Soviets launch Vostok 1, the first manned spaceflight. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin completes a single orbit. Gagarin's controls were locked to prevent him from taking control of ship. A key was available in a sealed envelope in case it became necessary to take control in an emergency. Gagarin ejected after reentry and descended under his own parachute, as was planned. However for many years the Soviet Union denied this, because the flight would not have been recognized for various FAI world records unless the pilot had accompanied his craft to a landing. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1979 | * | Kevin MacKenzie suggests emoticons :-), etc. | |
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| 1979 | * | Soyuz 33 returns to Earth. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | The first space shuttle, Columbia—a winged, reusable manned spacecraft that can support scientific missions and carry payloads in its cargo bay—lifts off from Kennedy Space Center, flown by astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1982 | * | U.S. launches world's first space shuttle Columbia with Astronauts Robert L. Crippen & John Young. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1984 | * | Challenger astronauts made the first satellite repair in orbit by returning a healthy Solar Max satellite to space. The orbiting sun watcher had been circling the Earth for three years with all circuits dead before repairs were made. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | * | Sen. Jake Garn of Utah became the first senator to fly in space as the 16th shuttle (51D)-Discovery 4 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1988 | * | Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse (1st for animal life), a laboratory mouse that was more sensitive to cancer. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1204 | * | The armies of the Fourth Crusade capture and sack Constantinople and establish the Latin Empire. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1229 | | Queen Blanche of Castilië & earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1782 | * | The British navy wins its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off Dominica. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1782 | * | Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies British fleet beats French. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | * | At 4:30 a.m. Confederate forces under Gen. Pierre Beauregard fire on Fort Sumpter, in Charleston, South Carolina signaling the start of the American Civil War. After 34 hours of fighting the Union surrenders Ft. Sumpter (the following day). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1862 | * | Union volunteers led by James J. Andrews stole a Confederate train near Marietta, Georgia, but were later caught. (This episode inspired the Buster Keaton comedy "The General."). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1862 | * | Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski GA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | Gunboat battle at Bayou Teche LA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1864 | * | Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, in Tennessee. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1864 | * | Thomas Green US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 50. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1864 | * | Battle of Blair's Landing LA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1883 | * | French troops under Lieutenant-Colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | | Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | | General Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Italy annexes Albania. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Vichy-France's head of government Admiral Dalan consults with Hitler. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | The U.S. Twentieth Air Force is activated to begin the strategic bombing of Japan. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1945 | * | Allies liberate the Belsen concentration camp. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1945 | * | 1st Canadian Corps begins an assault on Arnhem. | |
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| 1945 | * | Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | American troops enter Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany which killed 57,000 in 8 years. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1966 | * | First B-52 bombing on North Vietnam. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Kurdish rebels reported the Iraqi army was attacking guerrillas in northern Iraq. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2003 | * | Looters ransack government buildings, embassies, hospitals, businesses and even the National Museum. (XDG, p 5A, 4/21/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | Iraq's science adviser surrenders to US forces, the first of the 55 most-wanted leaders- list issued by the coalition. (XDG, p 5A, 4/21/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | Finance officials from the seven richest industrial countries, meeting in Washington DC, agree to support a new UN Security Council resolution as part of a global effort to rebuild Iraq an promise to begin talks on reducing Iraq's massive foreign debt burden. (XDG, p 4A, 4/12/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | Rescued POW Jessica Lynch returned to the United States after treatment at a U.S. military hospital in Germany. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1858 | | First American Billiard championship played in Detroit; Mike Phelan beats John Seereiter in 9.5 hrs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1877 | * | James Alexander Tyng, while playing a baseball game in Lynn, MA, became the first ballplayer to wear a catcher’s mask. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1896 | * | Stamasia Portrisi is first woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Johnny Bates of the Boston Braves hits a home run in his first major league at bat. | Ref: 12 |
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| 1909 | * | The 61-year history of Shibe Park begins with the A's defeating the Red Sox, 8-1. The stadium, which will be renamed to honor Connie Mack, is the first concrete and steel ballpark in major league history. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1916 | * | Red Sox trade future Hall of Famer Tris Speaker to the Indians for Sam Jones, Fred Thomas and $50,000. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1931 | * | Joe McCarthy makes debut as Yankee manager. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1938 | * | Chicago Black Hawks beat Tor Maple Leafs 3 games to 1 for Stanley Cup. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | NFL cuts clipping penalty from 25 yards to 15 yards. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Boston Bruins sweep Detroit Red Wings for the Stanley Cup. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | 9th Golf Masters Championship Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 280. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Houston Weathervane Golf Tournament. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Keizo Yamada runs fastest marathon to date, at Boston. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | 17th Golf Masters Championship Ben Hogan wins for the second time, shooting a 274. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | 18th Golf Masters Championship Sam Snead beats Ben Hogan to win his 3rd Masters tournament, shooting a 289. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | 8th NBA Championship Minneapolis Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 3. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Chuck Tanner of the Milwaukee Braves hits a home run in his first major league at bat on the first pitch. | Ref: 12 |
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| 1955 | * | At Municipal Stadium, the recently arrived Athletics beat the Tigers 6-2 in their first game in Kansas City. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1957 | | Jim Spalding set a 2088 pin nine-game bowling record. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | 12th NBA Championship St Louis Hawks beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | In the first game ever played at San Fancisco's Candlestick Park, after Vice President Richard Nixon throws out the ceremonial first pitch, Giants' starter Sam Jones three-hits the Cardinals , 3-1. During the third inning a protest is made by the umpires concerning the foul poles, which are discovered to be completely located in fair territory. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1960 | * | Bill Veeck & Chicago Comiskey Park debuts the "Exploding Scoreboard". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Douglas MacArthur declines offer to become baseball commissioner. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Pete Richert, Los Angeles Dodgers, strikes out 4 batters in the 3rd inning. (Sporting News Complete Baseball Record Book, 2002, ISBN 0-89204-668-0) | |
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| 1964 | * | Arnold Palmer wins his fourth Masters title at the 28th Masters and became the first golfer to make career earnings of $506,496.84. We haven’t a clue where the 84 cents came from. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies' Golf Open Invitational. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | First National League game at Houston's Astrodome (Philadelphia Phillies beat Houston Astros 2-0). Richie Allen hits the first NL home run in the Astrodome. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | The first major league game played in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium features Braves' hurler Tony Cloninger pitching all thirteen innings in a losing effort to the Pirates, 3-2. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1966 | * | Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American major league umpire. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1970 | * | Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle & Joe DiMaggio. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | The Players' Association and owners agree to terms ending the first players strike in baseball history. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1980 | * | Milwaukee beats Boston Red Sox, 18-1 (Cooper & Money hit grand slams). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow games. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | 45th Golf Masters Championship Tom Watson wins, shooting a 280. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow games. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Larry Mize, 28, hit a miracle shot -- a 140-foot chip -- to win the 51st Masters golf title in Augusta, GA. Mize defeated Greg Norman and Severiano Ballesteros in a playoff. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (2:10:55). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Ranger Bobby Witt ties an American League record committing four balks in a 4-1 loss to Tigers. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1988 | * | After an 0-6 start, Cal Ripken Sr. is replaced by Frank Robinson as the Oriole manager. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1988 | * | New Jersey Devils 4-2 over New York Islanders-Devils lead 3-2 in first round. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Giants' outfielder Brett Butler ties a major league mark walking five times in a 13-4 win over the Braves. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1992 | * | In a doubleheader at Cleveland, the Indians are no-hit by Red Sox hurler Matt Young in the first game but win, 2-1and in the nightcap the Tribe only gets two hits off Roger Clemens to set a major league record for fewest hits (2) in a twin bill. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1992 | * | 2nd lowest NBA scoring game - Detroit Piston 72, NY Knicks 61. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | 53rd PGA Seniors Golf Championship Lee Trevino wins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | 56th Golf Masters Championship; Fred Couples wins, shooting a 275. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | The New York Mets lose first 3 home games for 1st time since 1962. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Red Sox Scott Cooper hits for the cycle and drives in five runs helping Boston trounce the Royals, 22-11. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1998 | * | 62nd Golf Masters Championship Mark O’Meara wins | Ref: 5 |
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| 2001 | * | Wearing camouflage jerseys and green caps, the combat-ready Padres finally win the battle against the Giants, after five consecutive losses to the black and orange, 8-3. San Diego donned the uniforms to honor the area's significant military population. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Two panels of Toronto's SkyDome roof collide and force the postponement of the Blue Jays and Royals game due to unsafe building conditions. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2002 | * | In their first sellout since winning the World Series in 1991, the Twins beat the toothless Tigers in the home opener, 4-2, in front of 48,244 loud and enthusiastic fans at the Metrodome. The Minnesota franchise had been considered for elimination due to MLB's contraction plan proposed during the off-season. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | With his 574th career round tripper, Barry Bonds passes former Twin first baseman Harmon Killebrew and now ranks sixth on the all-time home run list. The Giants left fielder hit his milestone homer in the first inning off Nelson Figueroa in the Giants' 3-2 victory over the Brewers. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | | (Mt. St. Elias) The body of Aaron Martin is spotted on Mt. St. Elias, Alaska at 16,000 ft. from the air. It's position makes retrieval prohibitively dangerous. (Sports Illustrated, 4/29/2002, p. 56) | |
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| 2003 | * | Fenway's Green Monster, the left field wall in the major's smallest park, has a new look. Taking the place a net which use to collect home runs that cleared the wall, are seats where fans, 310 feet away and 40 feet above home plate, watch Pedro Martinez give up 10 runs in 4 1-3 innings in a 13-6 loss to the Orioles. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2003 | * | Women's activists take their fight against the all-male Augusta National as close as they could get to the Masters tournament. (XDG, p 4A, 4/12/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1709 | | First edition of Tattler magazine in England. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1826 | * | Weber's opera "Oberon", premieres in London. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1857 | | Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" published. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | | Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm", premieres in Oslo. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | The Hippodrome opened in New York City with the gala musical revue, A Yankee Circus on Mars. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1917 | * | Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th St New York NY (Demolished in 1982). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Domenico Scarlatti & Jean Cocteau's ballet premieres in Rome. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Fatty Arbuckle acquitted of killing /raping Hollywood starlet;career smashed by accusations. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1926 | * | Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | The thrill-comedy, Joe Palooka, which would also be a popular comic strip, made its debut on CBS radio. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Emmanuel Chabriers & Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | | "Tender Is the Night," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is first published. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1935 | * | "Your Hit Parade", debuts on radio. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | One of the classic theme songs of the Big Band era was recorded for Decca. Woody Herman’s orchestra recorded Woodchopper’s Ball. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Lillian Hellman's "Searching Wind", premieres in NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Richard Strauss completes his "Metamorphosis". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Joe Turner releases "Shake, Rattle & Roll". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Bill Haley & the Comets record "Rock Around the Clock". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | | Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | 13th Tony Awards J B & Redhead win. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for "Glass". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | 3rd Grammy Awards Theme From a Summer Place wins, Ray Charles wins 4. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Bob Dylan appeared in his first solo concert at Town Hall in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Philadelphia singer Chubby Checker married former Miss World, Catherina Lodders. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1966 | * | Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Jim Brown made his TV acting debut in Cops and Robbers on the NBC show I Spy, starring Bill Cosby and Robert Culp. I Spy aired from 1965 through 1968. The primary characters, Cosby and Culp, were secret agents posing as a top-notch tennis star and his trainer-companion. I Spy was the first television series to co-star a black actor. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Lucy and Snoopy of the comic strip Peanuts made the cover of Saturday Review. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Simon & Garfunkel release "The Boxer". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | | Federal inspectors declared that four animals of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were not unicorns, as the circus said, but goats with horns which had been surgically implanted. The circus was ordered to quit advertising the fake unicorns as anything else but goats. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs CA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | 3rd Soul Train Music Awards Anita Baker wins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | 2,500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | "Streetcar Named Desire" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 137 performances. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from singer Lenny Kravitz. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Euro Disneyland, a $4 billion theme park, opens at 09:01 a.m. 20 miles east of Paris at Marne-la-Vallée. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1500 | * | Joachim Camerarius [Liebhard Kammerer] German humanist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1550 | * | Edward de Vere b. Oxford, English poet and patron of the Oxford's Men acting company, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1573 | * | Jacques Bonfrère Dutch bible expert, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1579 | * | François de Bassompierre marshal of France, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1626 | * | Paul Hainlein composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1692 | * | Giuseppe Tartini composer, Istria, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1695 | * | Caspar Burman historian/mayor (Utrecht Netherlands), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1716 | * | Felice de' Giardini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1722 | * | Pietro Nardini composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1724 | * | (Declaration of Independence) Lymann Hall, physician, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Wallingford, CT. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1727 | * | Gaspare Gabellone composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1760 | * | Juan Manuel Olivares composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1764 | | Dirk van den Boetzelaer regent of Holland, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1769 | * | Giovanni Agostino Perotti composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1777 | * | Henry Clay, the "Great Compromiser", American politician and statesman who ran unsuccessfully for president three times, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1778 | * | John Strachan, Scottish-born Canadian educator and first Anglican bishop of Toronto, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1788 | * | Johann Erik Nordblom composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1791 | * | Francis Preston Blair newspaper editor (Washington Globe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1792 | * | John George Lambton London, statesman (1st Earl of Durham), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1793 | * | Ferdinand I the Good Natured, Emperor of Austria/king of Hungary, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1794 | * | Germinal P Dandelin Belgian mathematician (geometry), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1801 | | Henry de Cock Dutch reformed vicar/secession leader, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1801 | * | Josef Franz Karl Lanner Austria, composer/violist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1802 | * | François MP Liberman French relig leader (Congregation of Heart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1815 | * | Henry Hugo Pierson composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1823 | * | Aleksandr Ostrovsky Russian playwright (Artists & Admirers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1827 | * | Edward Mollenhauer composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1831 | * | Constantin Meunier Belgian painter/sculptor, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1831 | * | George Burgwyn Anderson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1831 | * | Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General (Union volunteers), American engineer; chief engineer of Union Pacific Railroad (1866-70), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1838 | * | John Shaw Billings US, librarian/army physician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1839 | * | Victorin de Joncieres composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1840 | * | Edmond Audran composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1851 | * | Emil Liebling composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1852 | * | [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann German mathematician, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1853 | * | Sir James Mackenzie, Scottish cardiologist; pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmia, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1856 | * | William M Conway English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | Raul d'Avila Pompeia Brazilian writer (Boarding School), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1869 | * | Henri-Désiré Landru French sex murderer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1871 | * | Ioannis Metaxas Greek General/dictator (1936-41), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1878 | * | Richard B Goldschmidt German/US zoologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1879 | * | Frederick G Melcher US, publisher/editor/founded children book week, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1883 | * | Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (1965 ASMP award), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | * | Otto Meyerhof Germany, psychologist/biochemist (Nobel-1922), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1885 | * | Robert Délaunay French painter, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1889 | * | Pierre-Étienne Flandin French premier (1934-35)/Minister of Foreign affairs, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Johnny Dodds early jazz clarinettist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Francisco H Craveiro Lopes Portuguese General/President (1951-58), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Sir Grantley H Adams President of Barbados, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Louis J M Beel premier of Netherlands (1946-48, 58-59), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Jan Tinbergen, the Dutch economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his work with econometric models, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1904 | * | Harald James Penrose pilot, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Lily (Alice) Pons soprano singer, actress: I Dream Too Much, That Girl from Paris; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1905 | * | Inger J Hagerup-Halsír Norwegian poet, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Pete Desjardins, American diver; 1928 Olympic medallist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1908 | * | Carlos Lleras Restrepo President of Colombia, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | John T Hughes Bishop to Forces, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Virginia Cherrill actress (Lake Extra, Brat, City Lights, Delicious), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Jürgen Rausch German philosopher/author (End of the Playboys), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | Darrell A Amyx US archaeologist (Greek Ceramics), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Herbert Mills singer, (Mills Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Georges Franju France, director (Judex, L'homme sans visage), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Eric Feldary Budapest Hungary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Harold Maguire British air marshal, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Lionel Hampton, musician, is born in Birmingham AL. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1913 | * | Gabor Jodal composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Emil [Theodore] Petaja US, sci-fi author (Star Mill, Tramontane), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Brian Connell writer/broadcaster, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Russ Garcia musician, composer, orchestra leader: Waiter, Make Mine Blues [w/Anita O’Day]; Royal Wedding Suite [w/Oscar Peterson], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1917 | * | M Marie, Widlow St Louis MO, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Edward John Stanley 18th Earl of Derby, English landowner/multi-millionaire, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Istvan Anhalt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | | Lady Ricketts CEO (National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Maurice Girodias French publisher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | | Wilson Charles Geoffery Baldwin hero, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Robert Fizdale Chicago IL, pianist (Misia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | | H R Hewitt CEO (Johnson Matthey), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | A W Mabbs archivist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Tiny Tim (Herbert Buchingham Kauhry) singer with the falsetto warble and ukulele ("Tiptoe Through the Tulips" ), is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1923 | * | Maria Callas opera singer (Carmen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | E C Meade British chartered accountant, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Ann Miller (Lucille Ann Collier) actress, dancer: Easter Parade, Sugar Babies, You Can’t Take It with You, Hit the Deck, Kiss Me Kate, On the Town, Room Service, Lovely to Look At; is born in Houston TX. died Jan 22, 2004 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1924 | * | Julius Moormann student/resistance fighter (WWII), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Sergiu Natra composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | | Johnny Jordan England, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Jane Withers actress: Captain Newman, M.D., Giant, The Farmer Takes a Wife, Bright Eyes, TV commercials: Josephine the plumber | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | Patrick Meehan petty criminal, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Jane Withers, Atlanta GA, actress (All Together Now, Josephine the plumber), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Brooklyn Supreme Belgium, stallion, heaviest known horse (1450 kg), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Hardy Kruger Berlin Germany, actor (Barry Lyndon, Wrong is Right), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Uwe Kitzinger president (Templeton College-Oxford), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Elspet Gray (Lady Rix), actress (4 Weddings & a Funeral, Solo, Tenko), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Betty Clooney Maysville KY, singer (Jack Paar Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Bryan Magee writer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | | Lou A de Graaf Dutch Assistant Secretary of Social Affairs (VDA), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Uwe Kitzinger president (Templeton College, Oxford), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Martin Boykan composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Billy (Richard) Vaughn musician, orchestra leader: Melody of Love, The Shifting, Whispering Sands, Sail along Silver Moon; baritone singer with The Hilltoppers; music director: Dot Records; is born in Glasgow KY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Henri Lazarof composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Jack Gelber US, playwright (Connection, Apple), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Tiny Tim (aka Darry Dover, Larry Love) (Herbert Butros Khaury) ukulele playing, falsetto singer: Tiptoe Through the Tulips, Sonny Boy; film: You Are What You Eat, TV: Laugh In; is born. died Nov 30, 1996 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Charlie (Charles Richard) Lau baseball: Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Braves, Baltimore Orioles, KC Athletics, Atlanta Braves; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Montserrat Caballé Barcelona Spain, soprano (Mimi-La Boheme), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Wendy Savage obstetrician/gynaecologist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Judy Lynn country singer: Footsteps of a Fool; entertainer: Las Vegas; The Judy Lynn Show; Snake Valley Jamboree Queen [1952]; U.S. Champion Yodeler [1953]; Miss Idaho [1955], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | Charles Napier actor (Night Stalker, Rambo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Kennedy A Simmonds premier (St Kitts & Nevis, 1983-95), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Igor Petrovich Volk Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-12), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Raymond Ceulemans Belgian world champion billiards player, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Alan Ayckbourn London, playwright, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Woody (Woodrow Thompson) Fryman baseball: pitcher: Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1968], Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos [all-star: 1976], Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Herbie Hancock Oscar-winning jazz/fusion musician, composer of original score: Round Midnight [1986]; TV score: Rockschool; singles: Riot, Cantaloupe Island, Rockit, Dolphin’s Dance, is born in Chicago IL. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Julio B Euson Aruban singer (I Use the Soap), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Frank Bank Hollywood Calif, actor (Lumpy-Leave it to Beaver), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Bill Bryden theatre director, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Daniel Winslow Schmidt composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Charles Ludlam New York NY, playwright/actor (Big Easy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Terry (Walter) Harmon baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Karel Kryl folk singer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | John Kay [Joachim F Krauledat] Tilsit East Prussia Germany, rocker (Steppenwolf-Hour of the World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Hilary Nicolle educationist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Peter L de Baan Dutch actor/director/playwright (Leonce & Lena), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | René Krijnen Dutch keyboardist (Les Baroques), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Ed[ward] O'Neill Youngstown OH, actor (Michael Mooney-Big Apple, Al Bundy-Married with Children), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | David Letterman Indianapolis Ind, comedian (Late Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Dan Lauria actor (Jack Arnold-Wonder Years) (1947 approximately), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Wayne Northrop Sumner WA, actor (Michael-Dynasty), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Scott Turow author: Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | David Cassidy NYC, singer/actor (Keith-Partridge Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | ‘Chip’ James Earl Carter III son of 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Roslyn Carter, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | David Cassidy New York NY, singer/actor (Keith-Partridge Family), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Tom Werner owner (San Diego Padres)/producer (Roseanne, Cosby Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Alex Briley singer: group: The Village People: YMCA | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Jakson Spires rock drummer/songwriter (Blackfoot), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Reuben Gant football: Oklahoma State Univ., Buffalo Bills, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Alexis Arguello Managua Nicaragua, featherweight boxer (1974 champion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Fred McCarren Butler PA, actor (Free Country, Amanda's), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | J D Nicholas English guitarist (Heatwave, Commodores), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Marvin Johnson US, middleweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-1972), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Pat Travers Toronto Ontario Canada, rock guitarist (Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Andy Garcia [Andrés Arturo García Menéndez] Havana Cube, actor (Stand & Deliver, 8 Million Ways to Die), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1956 | * | Alexander Briley vocalist (YMCA-Village People), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Doris Baaten Dutch actress (Sesame Street, Fien), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Vince Gill Grammy Award-winning singer: When Love Finds You [1994], I Still Believe in You [1992], When I Call Your Name [1990], Restless [w/Steve Wariner and Ricky Skaggs] [1991]; Grammy Award-winning musician: guitar: Red Wing [w/Asleep at the Wheel] [1993]; songwriter: If It Weren’t for Him [w/Roseanne Cash]; groups: Bluegrass Alliance, Sundance, The Cherry Bombs, Pure Prairie League, is born in Norman OK. (also TWA, 1997) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Tony James rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Will Sergeant rock guitarist (Echo & Bunnymen-Killing Moon, Heaven Up Here), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Elissa Leeds New York NY, actress (Cissy-Dorothy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Pascal Barré France, sprint relay team/twin brother of Patrick (Olympics-bronze-1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Patrick Barré France, sprint relay team/twin brother of Pascal (Olympics-bronze-1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | D D Verni heavy metal rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Julius Kariuki Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympics-gold-1988), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Mike Macfarlane Stockton CA, catcher (Kansas City Royals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Elaine Zayak New Jersey, figure skater (Olympics-6th-1984), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Jeffrey Hunter WLAF defensive end (London Monarchs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Lorenzo White NFL running back (Cleveland Browns), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Theo Blanco WLAF receiver (Amsterdam Admirals), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Bobby Abrams NFL outside linebacker (New England Patriots), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Donna Andrews Lynchburg VA, LPGA golfer (1994 Nabisco Dinah Shore), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Kirk Everist Houston TX, water polo driver (Olympics-96), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Mellow Man Ace [Ulpiano Sergio Reyez] Havana Cuba, Spanish rapper/actor (Only the Strong), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Adam Graves Toronto Ontario Canada, NHL left wing (New York Rangers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Alicia Coppola actress (Lorna Devon-Another World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Neal Fort CFL tackle (Montréal Alouettes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Michael Jackson NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Patrick Brugnoli hockey forward (Team Italy 1998), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Shannen Doherty Memphis Tn, actress (Little House, Bev Hills 90210). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Fernando Meligeni Argentina, tennis star, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Kent Manderville Edmonton, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Tyrone Chatman CFL linebacker (British Columbia Lions), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Antonio Osuna Sinaloa México, pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Claudia Jordan Miss Rhode Island-USA (1997, top 10), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Pamela Polk Berlin WI, Miss Wisconsin-America (1996), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Roman Hamrlik Gottwaldov Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman (Lightning, Olympics-gold-98), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Marcie Alberts WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Sofie Rahman Miss Hong Kong-Universe (1996), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Eddie Robinson actor (Neil Atwater-Swan's Crossing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Claire Danes actress: How to Make an American Quilt, Home for the Holidays, Little Women, My So Called Life, Law & Order, The Mod Squad [1999], is born in New York NY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 65 | * | -Seneca, the Roman Philosopher is killed by order of Nero. | Ref: 62 |
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| 352 | * | Pope St Julius I (337-52), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1523 | | -Vittorio Bracciolini (Harlequin) dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1545 | * | French king François I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1550 | * | Claude of Lorraine duke of Guise, dies at 53. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1555 | * | Johanna de Wanzinnige Queen of Castilie (1504-20), dies at 75. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1605 | * | Boris Godunov Tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1690 | * | Miguel Gomez Camargo composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1704 | | John Hudde 21x mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1743 | * | Augustine Washington, the father of George Washington, dies. (Andrist, RK, "The Founding Fathers: George Washington", 1972, ISBN 06-0101127-X) | |
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| 1748 | * | William Kent English sculptor/architect (Kensington Palace), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1760 | * | Baron Ernst Gottlieb composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1777 | * | Claude-Prosper J de Crébillon French writer (Le sopha), dies at 70. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1782 | * | Pietro Antonio Domenico Buonaventura Metastasio, Italian poet, dramatist, dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1788 | * | Carl Joseph Toeschi composer, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1788 | * | Carlo Antonio Campioni composer, dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1795 | * | Rainieri de Calzabigi Italian literary, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1797 | * | Josef Antonin Stepan composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1817 | * | Charles Messier "comet ferret" & catalogs famous "M objects,", dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1828 | * | Jean Henri Appelius Dutch lawyer/minister of Finance, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1845 | | Henry M baron the Kock officer/politician, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1859 | * | John Emde German evangelist, dies at about 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1872 | * | Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia KY (1 dead/$1,500). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1878 | * | William March "Boss" Tweed, NYC political boss, dies at age 55. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1896 | * | Alexander Ritter composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Hermann Kotzchmar composer, dies at 79. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | William G Sumner US sociologist/politicologist (Folkways), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | The founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton dies at her home in Glen Echo, Maryland, at age 90. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1914 | * | Josef Nesvera composer, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Frantisek Ondricek composer, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Feodor Chaliapin, Russian operatic bass, dies at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1938 | * | Serafín Alvarez Quintéro Spanish playwright (Piropos), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Johannes E Akkeringa Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 63 in Warm Springs, Ga; Harry S. Truman assumes the office. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1946 | * | August Borms Flemish nazi collaborator, executed at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | F Guicciardi writer, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Christian F L Leipoldt South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Harold Vincent Milligan composer, dies at 62. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Pim [Willem JH] Mulier Dutch journalist/sports-organizer, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | José Moscardo Ituarte Spanish General (Alcázar 1936), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Ernest Willem Mulder composer, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | James Gleason dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Nils-Eric Fougstedt composer, dies at 50. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Philippine "Pine" Belder [Mary de Klerk] actress, dies at 93. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Linda Darnell US actress (Dakota Incident), dies at 43. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Sumokil President of Republic South Moluccas, executed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | C W Ceram [Kurt Marek] German/US writer (1st American), dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Henri Potiron composer, dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Arthur B. Krock, American political journalist, dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1974 | * | Carl Jaffe dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Josephine Baker, American-born French dancer and singer, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1976 | * | Paul Ford actor (Phil Silvers Show), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Phillip K. Wrigley corporate executive: Wrigley Gum/Wrigley Field; dies at age 82. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1980 | * | William R Tolbert Jr Liberian President & 27 others killed in coup. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Joe Louis (Barrow) ‘The Brown Bomber’: boxer: world heavyweight champion [1937-1949]; dies at age 66. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1981 | * | Hans Chemin-Petit composer, dies at 78. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Hendrik F Andriessen Dutch organist/composer (Te Deum), dies at 88. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | 3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer; world champion six times between 1946 and 1960, dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1983 | * | Carl (Wendle) Morton baseball: pitcher: Montreal Expos [National League Rookie of the Year: 1970], Atlanta Braves; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | * | Ruth Taylor actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Ewan Calague economist/statistician (Social Security) dies at 90. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Alan Patton, South African novelist (Cry, the Beloved Country), dies at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1989 | * | Herbert Mills singer: group: The Mills Brothers: Paper Doll, You Always Hurt the One You Love, Glow-Worm; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | * | Former middleweight boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson [Walker Smith Jr], the only boxer to win world title at one weight five times, dies in Culver City, California, at age 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | (Chicago 7) Abbie Hoffman activist: 1960s cultural revolutionary [Yippie]; one of the Chicago Eight; author: Revolution for the Hell of It, Steal this Book; is found dead at his home in New Hope, PA of an apparent suicide, at age 52. (TWA, 1990) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1990 | * | Henry Kendrick dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | James Schuyler US poet (Pulitzer 1980), playwright and novelist, dies at age 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Joe Medwick vocalist, dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Isaac Rojas Vice President of Argentina (1955-58), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Patience Jarvis dies of melanoma at 56. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Q T Macon blues vocal/guitar, dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Harry la Fontaine Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Jean Carmet dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | Chris Pyne, trombonist, dies at 56. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Marthe Robert essayist/translator, dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Nancy Sheehan writer, dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | | William Wilkinson businessman/conservationist, dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | George Wald scientist, dies at 90 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1999 | * | Boxcar Willie (Lecil Martin) ‘The Singing Hobo’: songwriter, singer: Not the Man I Used to Be; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2002 | * | A 5.9 earthquake kills 50 in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. | Ref: 85 |
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