| 684 | * | St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1483 | * | Richard III usurps English throne. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1614 | * | First lottery in America held by the Virginia Company. Prize 4,500 crowns. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1754 | * | Newcastle's inner cabinet resolves to defend Britain's northern colonies from French "invasion." | Ref: 92 |
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| 1830 | * | William IV becomes King of England. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1844 | * | John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride in a ceremony in New York City, thus becoming the first US President to marry while in office. (American First Ladies, ISBN 0-89356-070-7, © 2002) | |
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| 1848 | * | First pure food law enacted in US. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | The first section of Atlantic City, New Jersey's Boardwalk was opened to the public. A 1 mile long 10 foot wide path cost $5,000. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1880 | * | Australian bushranger and folk hero Edward "Ned" Kelly and his Kelly Gang struck again -executing a police informer, Aaron Skerritt, who had previously worked with them. This murder was the lure by which they hoped to bring police reinforcements to Glenrowan, as Kelly planned to ambush the train on which they would travel. Ref | |
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| 1894 | * | The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, called a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1902 | * | England establishes Order of Merit. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | | Russia's nobility demands drastic measures to be taken against revolutionaries. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1908 | | Shah Muhammad Ali's forces squelch the reform elements of Parliament in Persia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1926 | * | A memorial to the first US troops in France is unveiled at St. Nazaire. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1934 | * | W E B Du Bois resigns position at NAACP. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1940 | * | End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Finland enters WW II against Russia. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | The United Nations Charter is signed by the representatives of the 50 countries. Poland, which was not represented at the Conference, signed it later and became one of the original 51 Member States. | Ref: 44 |
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| 1948 | | The Berlin Airlift began in earnest as the United States, Britain and France began ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1955 | * | The first Southern Baptist congregation was formally organized in Las Vegas, with 33 charter members. It was the second Southern Baptist church established in NV. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | President Eisenhower joined Britain's Queen Elizabeth the Second in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | A Kuwaiti vote opposes Iraq's annexation plans. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1963 | * | President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he made his famous declaration: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner). | Ref: 70 |
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| 1968 | * | Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Chief Justice Earl Warren announces his intention to resign from the U.S. Supreme Court. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1971 | * | The US Justice Department issues a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1975 | * | Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is convicted of election fraud. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1975 | * | Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | We take you now to Mountain Home, Idaho and a supermarket frequented by Virginia Campbell. Mrs. Campbell took her clipped coupons and rebates and bought some groceries. A lot of them. Checkers totaled some $24,460 worth, in fact! How much did Campbell end up paying with all of those coupons and rebates? Only 67 cents! Reports indicated that she would have received a refund of $12.97, but she decided to get film and flashbulbs after the bill was totaled. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | Porn star John Holmes is found Not Guilty of the infamous Wonderland gang ("Four on the Floor") murders. | Ref: 24 |
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| 1982 | * | US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Junior announced his retirement, leaving a vacancy that was filled by Anthony M. Kennedy. (XDG, p 4A, 6/26/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1990 | * | President George H.W. Bush, who had campaigned for office on a pledge of "no new taxes," conceded that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1990 | * | The Arizona Republic reported it was 122ø F in Phoenix, hot enough to cancel some flights at the airport. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1991 | * | A Kentucky medical examiner announced that test results showed President Zachary Taylor had died in 1850 of natural causes -- and not arsenic poisoning, as speculated by a writer. (Taylor's remains were exhumed so that tissue samples could be taken.) | Ref: 6 |
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| 1992 | * | Willie L. Williams is sworn in as Los Angeles police chief, succeeding the outgoing Daryl Gates. (XDG, p 4A, 6/26/2002) | |
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| 1992 | * | Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III resigned for a "leadership failure" that resulted in the Tailhook sex abuse scandal. (XDG, p 4A, 6/26/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1995 | * | The US Supreme Court rules that public schools can require drug tests for its athletes. (XDG, p 4A, 6/26/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1996 | * | President Clinton and leaders of the world's other industrial powers gathered in Lyon, France, for their annual economic summit. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1996 | * | The Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Academy to admit women, or forgo state support. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1996 | * | Ukrainian Parliament adopts constitution | Ref: 89 |
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| 1997 | * | In a series of decisions, the US Supreme Court ruled (A) that terminally ill Americans had no constitutional right to doctor-assisted suicide, but did nothing to bar states from legalizing the practice; (B) struck down a congressional attempt to keep pornography off the internet; © let stand the president's line-item veto without addressing its constitutionality. (XDG, p 4A, 6/26/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1998 | * | The Supreme Court issued a landmark sexual harassment ruling, putting employers on notice that they can be held responsible for supervisors' misconduct even if they knew nothing about it. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1998 | * | We found this Viagra report at the Poison News Headlines Web site, which said it had grabbed it from The New Straits Times: A 50-year-old Dutch tourist in the Spanish resort of Benidorm was admitted to the hospital when the Viagra he took left him with a 36-hour erection. The man, who had no history of impotency, told doctors he had taken the drug merely to enhance his sexual performance. In Beirut, a Lebanese woman filed assault charges against her husband who took three Viagra pills at once, lost control over himself and savagely attacked her in a state of excitement she said she had never seen in him before. And in Taipeh, a prostitute confessed to killing a 70-year-old client, saying she could not bear his excessive sexual demands after he took two Viagra tablets. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | * | The Supreme Court gave new power to its landmark Miranda decision of 1966, ruling police still must warn the people they arrest of their "right to remain silent" when questioned. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2001 | * | George Trofimoff, a retired Army officer, is convicted in Tampa, FL of selling Cold War secrets for over two decades. (Trofimoff, who maintains his innocence, was sentenced to life in prison.) (XDG, p 4A, 6/26/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2001 | * | The Xenia Daily Gazette prints a page 1 story documenting a posthumous award of a Purple Heart to Albert Dilley for wounds received in France in World War I. Dilley's daughter received the award. | Ref: 83 |
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| 1498 | * | Toothbrush invented. | Ref: 51 |
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| 1797 | * | Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1804 | * | Lewis & Clark: The Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches the mouth of the KS River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1819 | * | The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr. of NY City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1900 | * | A commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began the fight against the deadly disease yellow fever. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter flies for the first time. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1947 | * | The ENIAC patent (No. 3,120,606) is filed | |
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| 1958 | * | Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | First flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4s | Ref: 5 |
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| 2000 | * | Rival scientific teams completed the first rough map of the human genetic code after a ten-year race. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1096 | * | Peter the Hermit's crusaders force their way across Sava, Hungary. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1097 | * | The armies of the First Crusade (1096-99) occupied the ancient Byzantine city of Nicea. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1243 | | The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor is wiped out by the Mongols. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1781 | * | The massive forces of the combined American army arrived at Bird's Tavern, about 10 miles from Williamsburg. | |
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| 1794 | * | The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1858 | * | Treaty of Tientsin ends Anglo Chinese War. Ports open, opium trade legalized. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1862 | * | Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulse Confederacy in Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1862 | * | General Robert E. Lee attacks McClellen's line at Mechanicsville on day 2 of the Seven Days' campaign. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1863 | * | Jubal Early and his Confederate forces move into Gettysburg, PA. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1900 | * | The United States announces it will send troops to fight against the Boxer Rebellion in China. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1915 | * | Montenegrins enter Scutari, Albania. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1916 | * | Russian General Aleksei Brusilov renews his offensive against the Germans. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | The first U.S. infantry troops of the American Expeditionary Force, numbering some 14,000 soldiers, land in France at the port of Saint Nazaire. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1917 | * | General Pershing arrives in France with the American Expeditionary Force. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1918 | * | The Germans begin firing their huge 420 mm howitzer, "Big Bertha," at Paris. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1924 | * | After eight years of occupation, American troops leave the Dominican Republic. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1941 | * | The German 163rd Infantry Division begins a train crossing of Sweden into Finland. After two weeks, 15,000 troops, weapons, and supplies had been transported. | |
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| 1951 | * | The Soviet Union proposes a cease-fire in the Korean War. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1897 | * | Thomas Lynch and John Heydler were umpires in a baseball doubleheader in Washington, D.C. Each of these umpires went on to become a president of the National League. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1913 | * | After failing in Cincinnati and moving across the Ohio River to Covington, Kentucky, the Federal League team decides to relocate again. The franchise shift to Kansas City, which is American Association territory, will cause organized baseball to 'declare war' on the upstart league. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1916 | * | Three fans at the Polo Grounds are arrested for petty larceny by the NYPD for keeping balls hit into the stands. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1916 | * | Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Pirate center fielder Lloyd Waner sets major league mark recording 18 putouts in a doubleheader sweep of the Boston Braves. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1938 | * | Carl Hubbell notches his 200th victory as the Giants defeat the Cubs. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1939 | * | In Philadelphia, the Yankees play their first night game in franchise history losing to Connie Mack's A's, 3-2. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1944 | * | At the Polo Grounds with over 50,000 fans looking on, the three NY major league teams played against each other in a six inning three-team game (a team played consective innings against the other two teams then sat out an inning). The contest, which was played to raise money for war bonds ended with the final score of Dodgers 5, Yankees 1, Giants 0. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1946 | * | After batting only .048 (2 for 48), Mel Ott decides to stop playing and only manage the Giants. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1959 | * | Ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson in a 3 round upset in Yankee Stadium to win the heavyweight boxing title. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1961 | * | The Yankees beat the Angels, 8-6, and Yogi Berra collects his 2000th career hit, all as a Bronx Bomber. To celebrate the achievement a huge cake is rolled out in Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1961 | * | Cassius Clay wins a decision over Duke Sabedong in the 10th round in Las Vegas NV. | Ref: 96 |
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| 1962 | * | Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | University of Wisconsin star Rick Reichardt receives the highest bonus to date ($200,000) when he signs with Angels. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1970 | * | Frank Robinson hits consecutive grand slams helping Baltimore to beat the Senators, 12-2;. The Oriole outfielder is the seventh major leaguer to hit two bases-full homers in one game. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1972 | * | Roberto Duran takes the lightweight boxing championship from Ken Buchanan of Scotland when the referee stopped the fight at the start of the 14th round. (There was a controversial "low blow" thrown by Duran.) | Ref: 97 |
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| 1976 | * | Carlos Monzon outpoints WBC middleweight boxing champion Rodrigo Valdez to retain the middleweight boxing title and unify the division. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1977 | * | Pete Vukovich pitches the first shutout in Blue Jay history blanking the Orioles, 2-0. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1978 | * | The Toronto Blue Jays explode for 24 runs on 24 hits en route to a 24-10 shellacking of the Baltimore Orioles. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1979 | * | Muhammad Ali announced that he was retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion. The 37-year-old fighter said, “Everything gets old, and you can’t go on like years ago.” The “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” act was no more. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | * | At Clearwater¹s Jack Russell Stadium, Wilbur Snapp, the organist, is ejected by umpire Keith O¹Connor from a Class A Florida League game for playing Three Blind Mice following a close call. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1987 | * | Although the Red Sox have 9-0 second inning lead over the Yankees, Roger Clemens is unable to hold the lead with the Yankees winning 12-11 in ten innings. Boston's third baseman Wade Boggs sees his 25-game hitting streak come to an end. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1994 | * | The Colorado Rockies claim one of the few Major League attendance records not yet in their possession, drawing 217,009 fans to a three-game series vs. the Giants. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1995 | * | National League President Leonard Coleman announces that Coors Field (home of the Colorado Rockies) has been selected to host the 1998 All-Star Game. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2000 | * | After hitting 35 home runs in 53 minor league games, Arizona Diamondback Alex Cabrera makes his big league debut and homers as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning. He becomes the 78th player in baseball history to homer in his first career at bat. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1284 | * | Fiction: The Pied Piper exacted his revenge upon the German town of Hamelin this day. The townspeople had promised to pay the piper a large fee if he could rid their town the nasty rats running all over the place. He had played his trusty pipe and the rats had followed him out of town and into the River Weser. But once the rodents were eliminated, the local folks decided not to pay after all. The piper was not pleased and repaid the townspeople by playing his pipe for the children of Hamelin, just like he had done for the rats. And just like the rats, the children followed him out of town. The Pied Piper of Hamelin led the kiddies into a hole in a hillside. They were never seen again. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | * | Fiction: Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 3 Garidebs" (BG). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | The NY Daily News was first published. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | | Charlie Chaplin's classic comedy, "The Gold Rush," premiered at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1933 | | The Kraft Music Hall debuted. It turned out to be one of radio’s longest-running hits. The first program presented Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. Singer Al Jolson became the host of the show shortly thereafter. Several years later, crooner Bing Crosby was named the host. The Kraft Music Hall continued on NBC radio until 1949 and then on TV for many more years; the first year as Milton Berle Starring in the Kraft Music Hall, then Kraft Music Hall Presents: The Dave King Show followed by Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall for four seasons. From 1967 on, The Kraft Music Hall featured a different host. Bring on the Velveeta and the Philadelphia brand cream cheese! | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | | Entertainer Fred Allen closed out his amazing radio career. Allen was making the transition to TV. His final radio guest was his old pal, Jack Benny. Allen’s caustic wit didn’t play well on TV and he found himself out of the medium in short order. Benny went on to become a television legend. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow interviewed his 500th -- and final -- guest on Person to Person: actress Lee Remick. Just hours before this final broadcast, Murrow had presented his last news broadcast on the CBS radio network. CBS-TV had reportedly made $20 million from Murrow’s Person to Person series. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | A Hard Day’s Night was released by United Artists Records. The album featured all original material by The Beatles and became the top album in the country by July 25, 1964. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | Mr. Tambourine Man, by The Byrds, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts. The song was considered by many to be the first folk-rock hit. The tune was written by Bob Dylan, as were two other hits for the group: All I Really Want to Do and My Back Pages. The group of James Roger McGinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and Mike Clarke charted seven hits. The Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | Elizabeth Taylor divorces her fifth husband Richard Burton the first time. | Ref: 24 |
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| 1982 | * | Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | "Loving" premiers on TV. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Barbra Striesand records "Here We Are at Last". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Big River, later to be a Tony Award-winning cast album, became the first cast soundtrack LP to be recorded in Nashville, TN. The celebrated album was released on MCA Records and tapes. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | “Just the facts, ma’am. Thank you.” Dragnet, starring Dan Aykroyd in the Jack Webb role of Sgt. Joe Friday; and Tom Hanks in the Harry Morgan role of detective Stribeck, opened around the US The movie became the first Hollywood film to feature a "condom-conscious" bedroom scene ... just right for the social mores of the 1980s. Dragnet was a smash theatrical hit, as it had been on radio and TV in the 1940s and 1950s. “This is the city...” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | * | Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for the 2nd time. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | | The North Manchester, Indiana News Journal ran a commentary by Worth Weller on this day, called Publisher Discovers Meaning of Life Driving Across Kansas. His observations: 1) Kansas is quite pretty -- like the ocean. 2) The pioneers must have been driven insane by the boredom while travelling across Kansas. 3) A billboard just outside of Russell KS proudly proclaims this little smudge in the prairie is the home of Bob Dole. And, as the heat and grain elevators began to get to him: 4) Politics is no longer about leadership, just as the press is no longer about information. Both are now about entertainment. 5) It’s amusing how we either ignore history or rewrite it to suit our own view of the world. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1998 | | Doctor Dolittle opened in the US Eddie Murphy stars as Dr. John Dolittle, who can converse with, and heal, animals. Audiences loved it: $29.01 million the opening weekend. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | | Principal photography for Star Wars: Episode II started in Australia, where shooting would last for two months before moving on to Italy, Tunisia and Spain. George Lucas directs Hayden Christiansen who plays the young Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker). Natalie Portman is Padmé Amidala and Ewan McGregor plays Obi-Wan Kenobi. Samuel L. Jackson stars as Mace Windu, Christopher Lee plays Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus and Jimmy Smits is Bail Organa. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2002 | * | R&B singer R Kelly pleads not guilty to criminal charges associated with child pornography. (USA Today, p 11D, 1/24/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1702 | * | Dr Philip Doddridge England, nonconformist clergyman, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1730 | * | Charles Messier cataloguer of "M objects", is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1742 | * | (Declaration of Independence) Arthur Middleton, farmer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born in Charleston, SC. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1763 | * | George Morland England, artist of rural landscapes, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1819 | * | Abner Doubleday, Civil War General and the man credited with inventing American baseball, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1824 | * | William Thomson Lord Kelvin, engineer/mathematician/physicist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1854 | * | Sir Robert Laird Borden (C), 8th Canadian PM (1911-20), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1865 | * | Bernard Berenson, art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1878 | * | Albert Siklos, Hungarian cellist, composer and musicologist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1887 | * | Anthony G de Rothschild Britain, philanthropist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1891 | * | Sidney (Coe) Howard playwright: screen play: Gone with the Wind; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1892 | * | Pearl S Buck China, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Hubert Julian (Jay) Stowitts the first American star in the Russian ballet, and Anna Pavlova's only American partner, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | William "Big Bill" Broonzy, blues singer and guitarist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1894 | * | Bill Wirges Buffalo NY, orch leader (Growing Paynes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1898 | * | Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer, is born in Frankfort | Ref: 70 |
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| 1900 | * | Hack (Lewis Robert) Wilson baseball: NY Giants [World Series: 1924], Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1929/record: rbi in a season: 190 in 1930], Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1901 | * | Stuart Symington (Sen-D-Mo 1953-76), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | William P. Lear, American engineer and industrialist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1902 | * | Antonia Brico, Rotterdam Holland, conductor/pianist (Antonia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Floyd "Babe" Herman Brooklyn Dodgers' slugger (.324 lifetime average), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Actor Peter Lorre (László Löwenstein) is born. | Ref: 24 |
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| 1909 | * | Col. Tom Parker carnival barker, show business promoter: manager of Elvis Presley; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1910 | * | Roy Plunkett scientist: discovered polytetrafluoroethylene, better known as Teflon [Apr 6, 1938]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1911 | * | Edward Levi professor (Intro to Legal Reasoning), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Maurice Wilkes inventor (stored program concept for computers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Babe (Mildred) Didrikson Zaharias “The outstanding female athlete of the first half-century.” [AP 1950]; International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer, Olympic Hall of Famer, World Golf Hall of Famer, LPGA Hall of Famer, National Track and Field Hall of Famer; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1914 | * | Laurie Lee, British writer (Cider with Rosie), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1914 | * | Richard Maltby orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Wolfgang Windgassen Annemasse Germany, tenor (Stuttgart Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Charlotte Zolotow author: Peter and the Pigeons, The Moon was the Best, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1916 | * | Alex Dreier Honolulu Hawaii, newscaster (Whats it all about World?), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Eleanor Parker, Ohio, actress (Caged, Detective Story, Hans Brinker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Frances Rafferty Sioux City Iowa, actress (December Bride), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Pavel Belyayev USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod 2), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Jacob Druckman Philadelphia, composer (Animus I Auerole), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Colin Henry Wilson, British author (The Outsider). | Ref: 2 |
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| 1933 | * | Noriyuki "Pat" Morita CA, actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Claudio Abbado Milan Italy, conductor (London Symph-1982), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Dave Grusin composer: film scores: On Golden Pond, Heaven Can Wait, Tootsie, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | John V Tunney (Rep/Sen-D-Calif), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Hal Greer Basketball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia 76ers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Charles Robb (Sen-D-Va)/husband of Lynda Bird Johnson, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Singer Billy Davis Junior (The Fifth Dimension) is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1942 | * | Larry Taylor rocker (Canned Heat-On the Road Again), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Bill (William Henry) Robinson baseball: Atlanta Braves, NY Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1979], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Georgie Fame (Clive Powell) singer: The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Clive Francis London England, actor (Masada), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Dave (Rodriguez) Rosello baseball: Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Pamela Bellwood NYC, actress (Ellen-W.E.B., Claudia-Dynasty), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Steve (Stephen Shaddon) Bowling baseball: Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Danny Gruen hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Rockies, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Robert Davi actor (Raw Deal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Mick Jones musician: guitar, singer: groups: Big Audio Dynamite, The Clash: 1977, Capitol Radio, Career Opportunities, I’m So Bored with the USA, Police and Thieves, Complete Control, Remote Control, [White Man] In Hammersmith Palais, English Civil War, Stay Free, I Fought the Law, Brand New Cadillac, Death or Glory, Jimmy Jazz, Rock the Casbah, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Chris Isaak actor: Little Buddha, Silence of the Lambs, Married to the Mob, Twin Peaks; singer, songwriter: Wicked Game, Blue Hotel, LP: Silvertone, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Glen Stewart Godwin is born in Miami FL. He is being sought for his 1987 escape from Folsom State Prison in California, where he was serving a lengthy sentence for murder. Later in 1987, Godwin was arrested for drug trafficking in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico. After being convicted, he was sent to a prison in Guadalajara. In April of 1991, Godwin allegedly murdered a fellow inmate and then escaped five months later. (December 1996) | Ref: 14 |
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| 1960 | * | Barbara Edwards Albuqueque NM, playmate of the year (Sept, 1983), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Terri Nunn singer: group: Berlin: Take My Breath Away, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Devin Rene‚ De Vasquez Baton Rouge La, playmate (June, 1985), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Zeng Jinlian Hunan China, became tallest woman known (2.46 m, 8'1"), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Michael Alfonso is born in IL. He is wanted for allegedly stalking and then shooting to death two of his former girlfriends in IL, in 9/1992 and 6/2001. (January 2003) | Ref: 14 |
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| 1970 | * | Chris O’Donnell actor: The Three Musketeers, Dead Poets Society, Scent of a Woman, Fried Green Tomatoes, Circle of Friends, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, The Bachelor, Vertical Limit, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | Sean Hayes Emmy Award-winning actor: Will & Grace [2000], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | Matthew Letscher actor: The Mask of Zorro, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | Derek Jeter, of the NY Yankees, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1980 | * | Jason Schwartzman actor: Rushmore, Slackers; musician: group: Phantom Planet, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 363 | | Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1541 | * | Former followers murder Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish Conqueror of Peru in Lima Peru. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1795 | * | Gilbert White 'father of British naturalists': author: The Natural History of Selborne; dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1796 | * | David Rittenhouse, American astronomer and inventor, dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1810 | * | Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket dies of cholera. | Ref: 57 |
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| 1810 | * | Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor; helped build first hot-air balloon, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1830 | * | King George IV of England dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1835 | * | Antoine-Jean Gros, French Romantic painter, dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1836 | | Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1906 | * | Alexander Muir poet (The Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, English medical researcher, dies at age 84. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1938 | * | James Weldon Johnson, African-American poet and novelist (The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man), lawyer, first black admitted to Florida Bar, dies at age 67. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1939 | * | Ford Madox Ford, English novelist and editor, dies at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1943 | * | Karl Landsteiner, Austrian-born immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at age 75. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1967 | * | Francoise Dorl‚ac actress (That Man From Rio), dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | John Cranko, South African-born dancer and director of the Stuttgart Ballet, dies at age 45. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1975 | * | Special Agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams were murdered while conducting an investigation on an Indian reservation near Pine Ridge, South Dakota. American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier was convicted of committing the murders. | Ref: 14 |
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| 1977 | * | 42 die in a fire an inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Walter O'Keefe songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Carl Foreman producer, dies of cancer at 69 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Roy Campanella, legendary catcher for the Negro Leagues and the Brooklyn Dodgers, dies in Woodland Hills CA at age 71. | Ref: 2 |
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| 2002 | * | Dolores Gray actress: The Buick Circus Hour, The Opposite Sex, Kismet, Designing Woman; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2003 | * | [Steve James] Strom Thurmond (Sen-D/R-SC) since 1954 [first person in U.S. history to be elected to a major office by write-in ballot]; governor of South Carolina [1947-1951]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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