| 597 | * | Death of St. Columba (born 521), pioneer missionary to Scotland. From the Isle of Iona, Columba evangelized the mainland of Scotland and Northumbria. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1456 | * | 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1549 | * | In England, Parliament established a uniformity of religious services and the first Book of Common Prayer, as Anglicanism became the newly established national faith. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1628 | * | First deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1732 | * | Englishman James Oglethorpe received a royal charter to form the American colony of Georgia. It was to be a place of refuge for sectarian Protestant believers, persecuted in England. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1766 | * | In Virginia, Governor Fauquier announces the repeal of the Stamp Act, although the Virginia Gazette had published the news on May 2. | |
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| 1772 | * | First Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1784 | * | In the first step toward formal organization of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S., Father John Carroll was appointed superior of the American missions by Pius VI. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1789 | * | Captain Bligh and castaways from the mutiny on the not-so-good ship Bounty reach Timor. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1815 | | Congress of Vienna settles map of Europe; Netherlands formed, Switzerland neutral. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1846 | * | Donner Party: The party reaches the Platte River, along which they travel for the next month. | Ref: 28 |
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| 1851 | * | San Francisco Committee of Vigilance forms (1st time). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1853 | * | New Jasper Township (in Greene County OH) is legally established. (XDG, p 10, 7/31/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1868 | * | First meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1869 | * | Charles Elmer Hires sells his first root beer (Phila). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1883 | * | First commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago El). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | First Automat restaurant opens (818 Chestnut St, Phila) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Eyewitnesses Carrigan, Bostock, and Wade testify that were unable to identify any of the bandits they had seen at the crime. Mary Splaine, a bookkeeper, testifies that she saw Sacco leanout of the automobile as it crossed railroad tracks. On cross-examination, Splaine denies saying at the preliminary hearing that she had doubts as to whether she could identify Sacco, though her statement is in the record. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1930 | * | King Carol II assumes the throne of Rumania. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1931 | * | Submarine Poseidon sunk. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1940 | | The Cuban Constitution Assembly drafts a new constitution providing for a Parliamentary system with a premier appointed by a president. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1943 | * | The US Congress authorized legislation giving the green light to a withholding tax on payrolls -- the pay-it-as-you-make-it income tax. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | NY Giant Mel Ott becomes the first manager to be ejected from both games of a doubleheader. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes first woman treasurer of US. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army Hearings over McCarthy's attack on a member of Welch's law firm, Frederick G. Fisher. Said Welch: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" | Ref: 70 |
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| 1955 | * | 100º F-Hottest day in Seattle Washington. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | The first Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarine was launched at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, New Hampshire. The USS George Washington (SSBN 598) was christened this day and served proudly until January 24,. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | The Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren. Also | Ref: 70 |
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| 1970 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Harry A Blackmun becomes a Supreme Court Justice. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Prime Computer, Inc. was founded | Ref: 62 |
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| 1976 | | The Spanish parliament passes legislation allowing for the establishment of independent political parties. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1978 | * | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Mardiros Jamkodjian, and Armenian dissident, is arrested in Switzerland for the murder of a Turkish consular employee. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1983 | * | Mario Soares is inaugurated as premier of Portugal. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1985 | * | Oak Harbor nuclear power plant in Ohio loses its coolant | Ref: 62 |
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| 1985 | * | American educator Thomas Sutherland was kidnapped in Lebanon -- he was released in November 1991 along with fellow hostage Terry Waite. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | | Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to the UK. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | The wreck of the German battleship Bismarck is discovered at a depth of 4,700 meters. | |
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| 1990 | * | Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) & Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito married commoner Masako Owada. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1997 | * | Air Force Gen. Joseph Ralston, who had admitted that he'd had an adulterous affair years earlier, gave up his fight to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1997 | * | British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires | Ref: 5 |
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| 1534 | * | Jacques Cartier first sails into mouth of St Lawrence River in Canada. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1822 | * | Charles Graham receives first patent for false teeth. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | First aerial cross of the Pacific lands in Brisbane Australia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | First rocket-powered aircraft design patented (R. Goddard). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | NASA launches Intelsat V, it failed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | The Rogers Commission released its report on the "Challenger" disaster, criticizing NASA and rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for management problems leading to the explosion that claimed the lives of seven astronauts. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Linux v2.0 was released. 2.0 was a significant improvement over the earlier versions of the operating system that some experts say will become a competitor for MS Windows. Several ‘flavors’ of Linux have been developed as many in the computing world look for ways to wriggle free from the clutches of “Micro$oft” and its wealthy creator, Bill Gates. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1064 | | Coimbra, Portugal falls to Ferdinand, king of Castile. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1789 | | Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1790 | | Civil war breaks out in Martinique. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1800 | | French defeat Austrians at the Battle of Montebello Casteggio. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1861 | * | Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke begins working in Union hospitals. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1862 | * | Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | At the Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, Union and Confederate cavalries clash in the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1918 | * | The opening of fourth phase of 1918 German offensive (Battle of the Matz) in French sector between Noyon and Montdider. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1923 | | Bulgaria's government is overthrown by the military. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1940 | * | Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | The Japanese high command announces that "The Midway Occupation operations have been temporarily postponed." | Ref: 2 |
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| 1944 | * | Soviet offensive against the Finnish front begins. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1945 | * | Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declares that Japan will fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1951 | * | After several unsuccessful attacks on French colonial troops, North Vietnam's General Vo Nguyen Giap orders Viet Minh to withdraw from the Red River Delta. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1972 | * | American advisor John Paul Vann is killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1982 | | Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | James J. Jeffries defeats Bob Fitzsimmons in an 11 round bout to win the Heavyweight Boxing title. (Jeffries retired in 1905, but came out of retirement in 1910 to fight Jack Johnson.) | Ref: 97 |
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| 1901 | * | NY Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cin Reds 25-13. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Honus Wagner becomes the second player in the history of the game to collect 3000 hits when he doubles off of Philadelphia’s Erskine Mayer. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Dodger standout pitcher Rube Marquard breaks his leg running the bases ending his season with a record of 3-3. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1934 | * | Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen by 3 strokes for the US Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Olin Dutra beats Gene Sarazen by 1 stroke for the US Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | ABC & AFL sign a 5 year contract. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | In the first major league game ever played on a Sunday night, the Colt 45's extend the Giants losing streak to seven games blanking the visiting team, 3-0. Due to the extreme heat during the days of the Texan summer months, baseball grants permission for games to be played in the evening at Colt Stadium. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1965 | * | Frenchman Michel Jazy ran the mile in 3 minutes, 53.6 seconds to break the 1964 record set by Peter Snell. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1966 | * | 5 Minn Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, & Harmon Killebrew) all homer in the 7th inning to beat Athletics 9-4. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Muhammad Ali is convicted for failing to submit to the draft and sentenced to five years in prison, which he immediately appealed. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1973 | * | "Secretariat" became horse racing's first Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1978 | * | Larry Holmes beat up Ken Norton to claim the heavyweight boxing title in a 15-round decision in Las Vegas, NV. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1979 | * | Coastal wins the Belmont Stakes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | | Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for first & last time. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Willie Horton is honored at Seattle's Kingdome. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Whitey Herzog becomes the St Louis Cardinal manager. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1980 | * | Phillies & SF Giants end their game at 3:11 AM. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | | Jorgen Hingsen of W Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Swale wins the Belmont Stakes (8 days later Swale dies). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | The Los Angeles Lakers edged the Boston Celtics, 111-100, to win their first National Basketball Association title in nine tries over the Celtics. The Lakers had been shut out of a championship series since 1959 when they were based in Minneapolis. The MVP of the winning Lakers was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | Angel Don Sutton (298 wins) beats White Sox Tom Seaver (306 wins) 3-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Mets outfielder Darryl Strawberry hits his 200th career home run in a ten-inning, 4-3, loss to the Pirates. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1989 | * | Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | Michael Changs French Open win makes him youngest male to go to finals. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Dodger Eddie Murray ties Mickey Mantle's major league mark hitting a homer from both sides of the plate for the tenth time in his career. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1990 | * | Czechoslovakia beats US 5-1 in World Cup soccer. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Go and Go wins the 122nd Belmont Stakes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Monica Salas beats Steffi Graff for French Open title. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Hansel wins the Belmont Stakes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Jim Courier beats Andre Agassi for the French Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | | World Bowl-World League of American Football first championship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Randy Smith is named Vice President/Baseball Operations & General Manager of the San Diego Padres. At 29 Smith becomes the youngest GM in major league history. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1999 | * | Guillermo Mota of the Montreal Expos hits a home run in his first major league at bat. | Ref: 12 |
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| 1999 | * | After being ejected in the 12th inning by plate umpire Randy Marsh for arguing a catcher's interference call, Bobby Valentine returns to the dugout with a fake mustache and glasses. The NL will suspend the Mets' manager for two games and fine him for using the disguise. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1790 | | The first copyright for a book was given to The Philadelphia Spelling Book. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1890 | * | Oh Promise Me was sung by Jessie Bartlett Davis in the premiere of the operetta, Robin Hood, which opened at the Grand Opera House in Chicago, IL. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | * | Gustav Mahler conducts the first complete performance of his Third Symphony. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1904 | * | First concert of the London Symphony Orchestra. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1924 | * | Jelly-Roll Blues was recorded by blues great Jelly Roll Morton and his band for Gennett Records. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | Walt Disney's The Wise Little Hen, the first Donald Duck cartoon. | Ref: 73 |
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| 1951 | * | Joseph Haydn's opera "Orfeo et Euridice" premiers in Florence Italy, 160 years after it was written. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1962 | * | A decade after making his first hit song, Because of You, singer Tony Bennett debuted in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Barbra Striesand appears on "The Ed Sullivan Show". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | "Cleopatra"starring Elizabeth Taylor opens in New York; film cost $40 million. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | The Monkees appear at the Hollywood Bowl. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Brian Jones quits the Rolling Stones. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Bob Dylan received an honorary Doctorate in Music from Princeton University. Corretta Scott King (Doctor of Humanities) and Walter Lippman (Doctor of Laws) also received honorary degrees. Dylan wrote the song "Day of the Locust" about the event (it was the year the locusts invaded). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1971 | * | Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) first concert | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Tony Orlando and Dawn received a gold record for their hit song, He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You). The million-seller was number one for three weeks (May 3-17, 1975) and one of five million-sellers for the trio. (He Don’t Love You was originally a hit for Jerry Butler in 1960.) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1977 | * | George & Patti Harrison divorce. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Comedian Richard Pryor suffered almost fatal burns at his San Fernando Valley, CA, home when a mixture of "free-base" cocaine exploded. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | * | Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | | "Laserphonic Fantasy" premieres. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Cyndi Lauper's first #1 "Time After Times". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | "Star Trek V" premiers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Entertainer Ben Vereen was critically injured when he was struck by a van while walking along the Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu, CA. The driver, producer/composer David Foster, was not charged. Some hours earlier, Vereen had run into a tree while driving his own car. He blames that mishap for the later accident. He said, "I had hit my head on the steering wheel but felt fine. Later that evening as I was walking in Malibu, I had [a] stroke as a result of that accident." Vereen says he then stumbled into the roadway and was hit by the van. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1640 | * | Leopold I Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1672 | * | Peter the Great (Peter Alekseyevich) Piotr Alekseevich Romanov) (Peter I: Russian Czar [1682-1721], Emperor of Russia [1721-1725]; is born (Gregorian Calendar). | Ref: 17 |
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| 1768 | * | Samuel Slater, English-born industrialist; helped start American cotton industry, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1776 | * | Count Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist, is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1781 | * | George Stephenson, inventor of the steam locomotive, is born in a small colliery village called Wylam on the north bank of the river Tyne, | Ref: 68 |
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| 1785 | * | Slyvanus Thayer, US Army engineer, controversial superintendent of the US military academy at West Point, is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1791 | * | John Howard Payne US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1810 | * | Otto Nicolai, German opera composer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1812 | * | John Galle, German astronomer, first to sight Neptune, is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1843 | * | Bertha von Suttner Austria, novelist/pacifist (Nobel 1905), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1850 | * | James Stillman, American financier and banker, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1850 | * | Wilhelm Roux, German zoologist, is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1851 | * | Charles Bonaparte, American politician; U.S. attorney general (1906-09), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1865 | * | Carl Nielsen, Norre-Lyndelse Denmark, composer (Det Uuslukkelige), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1875 | * | Sir Henry H Dale, British physiologist (Nobel-medicine: 1936), is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1877 | * | Meta Vaux Warrick, sculptor, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1892 | * | Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist, is born in Indiana. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1893 | * | S. N. Behrman, American short-story writer and playwright | Ref: 70 |
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| 1900 | * | Fred Waring choirmaster & bandleader: group: The Pans: The Whiffenpoof Song; invented Waring blender; is born in Tyrone PA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1901 | * | George Price, cartoonist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1906 | * | Tonio Selwart Germany, actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Louis Kutner ‘The Spring Man’: attorney: responsible for release of unjustly-held prisoners; wrote the living will concept, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1908 | * | Actor Robert (Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings) Cummings ("Love That Bob") is born in Joplin MO. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1912 | * | Ingolf Dahl Hamburg Germany, composer (Andante & Arioso), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Patrick Steptoe, British physician, developer of invitro fertilization with Jeanette MacDonald, is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1915 | * | Les Paul (Polfus) Grammy Award-winning guitarist: Chester & Lester [w/Chet Atkins 1976], Trustees Award [1982]; w/Mary Ford: Vaya Con Dios, How High the Moon, Hummingbird, Sittin’ on Top of the World; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [1988], is born in Waukesha WI. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1916 | * | Robert Strange McNamara, former World Bank president, Secretary of Defense during Vietnam, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1916 | * | Les Paul (Polfus), Waukesha Wi, guitarist/inventor (Les Paul guitar), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1921 | * | Agnes Keleti Hungary, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | George Axelrod playwright (Breakfast at Tiffany), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Christine Goitschel France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Tony Britton Birmingham Eng, actor (Day of Jackal, Girl in my Soup), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Roy Smalley baseball: shortstop: Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1926 | * | Mona Freeman, Baltimore, actress (Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Marvin Kalb journalist: NBC News, Meet the Press; Executive Director: Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, is born in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1930 | * | Jackie Mason comedian (The World According to Me, Chicken Soup), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Jackie Mason (Jacob Moshe Maza) comedian: Chicken Soup, The World According to Me, The Jerk, Caddyshack 2, History of the World: Part 1; ordained rabbi | Ref: 4 |
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| 1931 | * | -Joe Santos (Minieri) actor: The Rockford Files, The Panic in Needle Park, Shamus, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Blue Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, Sinatra, Trial by Jury | Ref: 4 |
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| 1931 | * | Bill (William Charles) Virdon baseball: SL Cardinals [Rookie of the Year: 1955], Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1960], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Jackie Wilson, American singer, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1933 | * | Dick Orkin Williamsport Pa, actor (Tim Conway Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Helga Haase German FR, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1960), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Jackie Wilson Detroit, singer (Lonely Teardrops), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1934 | * | -Joe Santos Bkln NY, actor (Rockford Files, AKA Pablo, Shamus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Diana Van der Vlis actress: X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, The Incident, The Girl in Black Stockings, Ryan’s Hope; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Charles Wuorinen NYC, composer (Pulitzer 1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Dick Vitale, sportscaster: basketball analyst: ABC, ESPN; author: Time Out, Baby!, Campus Chaos Why the Game I Love is Breaking My Heart; columnist: USA TODAY, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | David Hobbs auto racer, broadcaster, actor: Stroker Ace, Emerald City, Emmerdale Farm, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Billy Hatton musician: bass: group: The Fourmost: Hello Little Girl, I’m in Love, A Little Loving, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Jon Lord musician: keyboards: groups: Artwoods, Flowerpot Men, Deep Purple: Black Night, Strange Kind of Woman, Fireball, Smoke on the Water, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Brigid Bazlen Wisc, actress (Pam-Too Young to go Steady), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | 23 puppies (record litter) born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler, Penn. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Kenneth Lee Adelman, US government official, is born. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1947 | * | Mitch Mitchell drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Jim Bailey football: NCAA Division 1-A individual record: most punts in a season [101]: Virginia Military Academy [1969], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Nathaniel Rosen Altadena Calif, cellist (Tchaikovsky Gold 1978), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Trevor Bolder musician: bass: groups: Spiders from Mars, Uriah Heep: LP: Equator, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Dave (David Gene) Parker baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [Baseball Writer’s Award: 1978/all-star: 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981/World Series: 1979], Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1985, 1986/World Series: 1988, 1989], Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers [all-star: 1990], California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Bonnie Tyler [Gaynor Hopkins], rocker (Total Eclipse of the Heart), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | | Patricia Cornwell is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1958 | * | Donald Michael Santini Mass, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Actor Michael Andrew Fox (a.k.a. Michael J. Fox) is born in Edmonton, Alberta. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1962 | * | Eddie Lundon rocker (China Crisis-Christian), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Johnny Depp (John Christopher Depp III), Queensboro Ky, actor (21 Jump Street), is born in Queensboro KY. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1964 | * | Wayman Tisdale basketball: Olympic Gold medalist [1984], Univ of OK [all-American], Phoenix Suns; and jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Gloria Reuben actress: ER, Timecop, Shaft [2000], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | Samantha Strong, X-rated film actress is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Mitch McLee [Douglas Lee Mitchell], Miles Mi, drummer (Southgang), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Dame Sybil Thorndike, English actress, dies at age 93. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1981 | * | Natalie Portman actress: Mars Attacks!, The Prince of Egypt, Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 68 | * | Nero Claudius Caesar, emperor of Rome, blamed for the great fire of Rome, commits suicide at age 31. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1681 | | -William Lilly dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1701 | | Philip I France dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1834 | * | English Baptist missionary pioneer William Carey died at 73. Having translated portions of Scripture into as many as 25 languages, he is known by some today as the 'father of modern missions.' | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | Charles Dickens novelist: David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist; dies near Rochester, Kent at age 58. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1911 | * | Carrie Nation temperance leader: took a hatchet to bottles in saloons; dies at age 64. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | King Ananda of Siam is murdered in his bed. His assassins were never apprehended. | Ref: 52 |
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| 1946 | * | 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire. (Dubuque Iowa). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Mayo Methot actress: Goodbye Love, Marked Woman; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | About 100 people died when a tornado struck Worcester, MA, destroying Assumption College. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1953 | | Ugo Betti dies | Ref: 10 |
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| 1959 | * | Michael Galitzen, American diver; won four Olympic medals (1928 and 1932), dies at age 49. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1963 | * | Jacques Villon, French painter and printmaker & brother of Marcel Duchamp, dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1964 | * | Sir William Beaverbrook, Canadian-born English politician, journalist and newspaper proprietor, dies at age 85. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1972 | * | 14" of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, flooding kills 269. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1974 | * | Katharine Cornell actress: The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Stage Door Canteen; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners & 1 guard (Sanford Fla). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | James A Farley, postmaster general (1933-38), American businessman; managed Franklin Roosevelt's first two presidential campaigns, dies at age 88. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1981 | * | Allen Ludden (Ellsworth) TV host: Password, The G.E. College Bowl, Liar’s Club; married to actress Betty White; dies at age 63. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1982 | * | Hank Ladd TV host (Arrow Show, Waiting for the Break), dies at 74 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | George Beadle Nobel Prize-winner for medicine [1958]: genetic research; President: University of Chicago; Harvard professor of genetics; dies at age 85. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | * | Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Charles Loloma jeweler: designed American Indian jewelry; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1993 | * | Alexis (Gladys) Smith actress: The Age of Innocence, The Young Philadelphians, Rhapsody in Blue; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1994 | * | Jan Tinbergen, the Dutch economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his work with econometric models, dies. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1995 | * | Zoilo (Casanova Rodriguez) ‘Zorro’ Versalles baseball: Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins [all-star: 1963, 1965/World Series: 1965/Baseball Writers’s MVP Award: American League: 1965], LA Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves; dies. | Ref: 5 |
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