| 1216 | * | King John's eldest son Henry is crowned King Henry III of England by Peter des Roches at Gloucester Cathedral. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1551 | * | Edward VI proclaims new coinage for England. | |
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| 1636 | * | The Massachusetts General Court provides £400 to support a school or college, and so, Harvard University is founded in Cambridge, MA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1646 | * | At Nonantum, Mass., colonial missionary John Eliot ("Apostle to the New England Indians"), 42, conducted the first Protestant worship service for the Indians of North America. He also delivered the first sermon preached to the Indians in their native tongue. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1714 | * | Coronation of George I of England. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1767 | * | The Boston Town Meeting renews the nonimportation agreement. Actions to compel the repeal of the Townshend Acts followed in other colonies. | |
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| 1778 | * | (date approximate) After an eleven day journey to Sandusky from Wappatomika, Simon Kenton's arm and shoulder were broken in separate incidents, Kenton is made to run his nineth gauntlet. | Ref: 58 |
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| 1790 | * | New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1878 | * | A team of four policemen -Lanigan, Scanlon, Kennedy and Mclntyre -all Irish, were trailing Australian bushranger and folk hero Edward "Ned" Kelly and his Kelly Gang (consisting of Ned, his brother Dan, and mates Joe Byrne, aged twenty-one and Steve Hart, aged eighteen) when Ned turned the tables on them. He ambushed them at Stringybark Creek, near the town of Mansfield, and killed three of them. Only Mclntyre escaped to tell what had happened. Ref | |
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| 1880 | * | Australian bushranger and folk hero Edward "Ned" Kelly, goes on trial, and found guilty. The judge, Sir Redmond Barry sentences Kelly to hang. Ref | |
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| 1886 | * | The last rivet on the Statue of Liberty (originally named Liberty Enlightening the World) is driven and the statue is dedicated by President Grover Cleveland. A gift from France, the statue was designed by Frenchsculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and was erected at the entrance of New York harbor as a symbol of freedom to welcome immigrants and others from around the world. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1914 | * | Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | (Prohibition) Over President Wilson's veto, Congress passes the National Prohibition Act, or Volstead Act, named after its promoter, Congressman Andrew J. Volstead, which provides enforcement guidelines for the Prohibition Amendment. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1919 | * | Congress passed the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, also known as the Dyer Act. This act authorized the Bureau to investigate auto thefts that crossed state lines. Prior to the passage of this act, jurisdictional boundaries between states hampered the ability of law enforcement officials to thwart interstate auto theft rings. | Ref: 14 |
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| 1922 | * | Mussolini leads the Fascists on a march on Rome, and Italian King Victor Emmanuel III, who has little faith in Italy’s parliamentary government, asks Mussolini to form a new government. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1929 | * | Biggest one day loss as Dow Jones plunges 12.8% as tomorrow starts Great Depression | Ref: 10 |
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| 1936 | * | President Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Nazis arrest 17,000 Jews of Polish nationality living in Germany, then expel them back to Poland which refuses them entry, leaving them in 'no-man's land' near the Polish border for several months. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1944 | * | The last transport of Jews to be gassed, 2,000 from Theresienstadt, arrives at Auschwitz. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1946 | * | German rocket engineers begin work in USSR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Flag of Israel is adopted. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Helen Eugenie Moore Anderson is sworn in as the U.S. ambassador to Denmark, becoming the first female to serve as an official American ambassador. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1958 | * | The Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was elected Pope, taking the name John XXIII. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1960 | * | In a note to the OAS (Organization of American States), the United States charges that Cuba has been receiving substantial quantities of arms and numbers of military technicians" from the Soviet bloc. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1961 | * | The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb with a force estimated at 58 megatons. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1962 | * | Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1963 | * | Penn Station (the building) is demolished to make room for a new Madison Square Garden. Trains continue to run below street level. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | Pope Paul VI issues a decree absolving Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | The Gateway Arch, a 630-foot tall parabolic arch made of steel, designed by architect Eero Saarinen, is completed as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial along the waterfront of St. Louis, Missouri. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1970 | * | US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Senator James William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accuses the Nixon administration of conducting an illegal war in Laos without congressional knowledge or approval. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1976 | * | Former Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman entered a federal prison camp in Safford, Ariz., to begin serving his sentence for Watergate related convictions. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1980 | * | President Carter and Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan faced off in a nationally broadcast, 90-minute debate in Cleveland. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1981 | * | Edward M McIntrye elected first black mayor of Augusta Georgia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | 7.2 earthquake hits Northwestern states and Canada. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1986 | * | In the Neiman-Marcus catalogue this day, the store offered, as a unique holiday gift, a 100-year subscription to The Wall Street Journal -- for just $6,000. That was a $5,400 saving over the regular 100-year rate! | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to U Wash library. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | Solzhenitsyn addresses the State Duma | Ref: 89 |
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| 1996 | * | Egghead, Inc. announces it will deliver software over the Internet. It closes about half its stores in 1996 and the remainder are closed by the end of 1998. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1998 | | In London, the High Court rules that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was immune from prosecution in British courts (however, the House of Lords later overturned the decision, saying Pinochet's arrest could stand). | Ref: 6 |
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| 2001 | * | United Airlines replaces embattled chairman and CEO James Goodwin with board member John Creighton. (XDG, p 4A, 10/28/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2002 | * | USA Today reports on page 8A that Mount Etna is spewing lava and ash on Catania, Italy. The area has been evacuated and sealed off, but there are no injuries. | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | * | The US Food and Drug Administration rules that THG (tetrahydrogestrinone) is an illegal drug that lacks federal permission for sale in the US. (XDG, p 1B, 3/18/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1492 | * | Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1793 | * | Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin, a machine which cleans the tight-clinging seeds from short-staple cotton easily and effectively--a job which was previously done by hand. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1904 | * | Fingerprinting is first used by the St. Louis Police Department. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1914 | * | George Eastman announces the invention of the color photographic process. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1927 | * | Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) flew the first international flight -- from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Italy invades Greece, launching six divisions on four fronts from occupied Albania.Mosquitoes with a deadly sting, Italy's tiny MAS torpedo boats cut enemy battleships down to size. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1957 | * | The first production Boeing 707-120 rolls off the assembly line. | |
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| 1971 | * | England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | NASA launches space vehicle S-203. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | NASA launches RCA-E. | Ref: 5 |
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| 312 | | Roman emperor Constantine, 32, defeated the army of Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius, a contender to the throne, at Milvian Bridge, after trusting in a vision he had seen of the cross, inscribed with the words, "In this sign conquer." Constantine was converted soon after and became the first Roman emperor to embrace the Christian faith. | Ref: 5 |
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| 969 | | After a prolonged siege, the Byzantines end 300 years of Arab rule in Antioch. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1628 | * | After a fifteen-month siege, the Huguenot town of La Rochelle surrenders to royal forces. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1768 | * | Germans and Acadians join French Creoles in their armed revolt against the Spanish governor of New Orleans. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1776 | * | Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | In a rare night attack, Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet attack a Federal force near Chattanooga, Tennessee, hoping to cut their supply line, the "cracker line." They fail. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1914 | * | The German cruiser Emden, disguised as a British ship, steams into Penang Harbor near Malaya and sinks the Russian light cruiser Zhemchug. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1918 | * | Germany's sailors mutiny at port when asked to sail out to fight again. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1940 | * | The Greek resistance and military had turned back Mussolini’s troops and Greece’s borders were closed to the Nazi supporters. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | The first transport from Theresienstadt arrives at Auschwitz. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1944 | * | The first B-29 Superfortress bomber mission flies from the airfields in the Mariana Islands in a strike against the Japanese base at Truk. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1956 | * | Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1890 | * | Last NL-AA World Series game Brooklyn ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | After over 5 months the Paris Olympic games close. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | WEAF in New York broadcasts the first collegiate football game heard coast to coast. Princeton played the University of Chicago at Stagg Field in the Windy City. The broadcast was carried on phone lines to New York City, where the radio transmission began. (Princeton 21, Chicago 18.) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1924 | * | Fewer than 20 people paid to see an exhibition baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the NY Giants. Maybe the fact that the game was played in Dublin, Ireland had something to do with the low turnout. Newspapers reported that attendance was off because church services were going on at the time. (Sox 8, Giants 4.) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | The 'Old Redhead' Red Barber resigns as a Brooklyn Dodger broadcaster and takes the 'catbird' seat with the rival NY Yankees. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1953 | * | Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Major league owners vote down the sale of the Philadelphia A's to a hometown syndicate; a week later the Mack family sells a controlling interest to Arnold Johnson who will move the team to KS city. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1958 | * | In San Francisco, construction begins on the Giants' new ballpark in an area where the rocks look like candlesticks. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1959 | * | Buffalo (Bills), owned by Ralph Wilson, becomes the seventh franchise of the American Football League. Ref | |
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| 1961 | * | Groundbreaking ceremonies were held for the Municipal Stadium at the former site of the New York World’s Fair in Flushing, NY. The name was later changed to Shea Stadium, after New York Commissioner William A. Shea. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1962 | * | NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | NBA Cleveland Cavaliers play their first home game losing to San Diego 110-99. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Secretariat raced into history by winning the Canadian International Stakes in Toronto. It was the last race won ... and run ... by the magnificent thoroughbred. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Elmore Smith of the Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | First time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (NY Yankees). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Donald Ritchie ran the fastest 100 Km ever, doing it in 7.2722. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Game 6 of the World Series saw the Los Angeles Dodgers storm back, winning their forth straight game (9-2), and the championship, after having been down two games to none to the NY Yankees. Rookie pitcher Fernando Valenzuela started the Dodger comeback, and batters Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero, Steve Garvey, and Steve Yeager took them the rest of the way. There had been genuine concern that snow might interfere with the Fall Classic since it was being played so late in the season in NY City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | Padres trade Keith Moreland and Chris Brown to the Tigers for pitcher Walt Terrell. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1989 | * | The Oakland Athletics beat the San Francisco Giants 9-6 to complete a four-game sweep of the earthquake-interupted World Series, the first World Series sweep since 1976. The A’s scored first in every game and never lost the lead once. Oakland pitcher Dave Stewart pitched two games, won two games, struck out fourteen hitters in sixteen innings, had an earned run average of 1.69 and was named MVP. The Series will be remembered not not only for the A’s dominance, but but for the earthquake before game three that killed sixty- seven people in the San Francisco Bay area. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1992 | * | Boxer Mike Tyson's father, Jimmy Kirkpatrick, dies in Brooklyn, NY. Tyson does not ask for a leave to attend the funeral. | Ref: 98 |
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| 1995 | * | Atlanta Braves right fielder David Justice broke a scoreless tie with the Cleveland Indians. It was a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth in in Game 6 of the World Series, and it was all the Braves would need. Pitcher/Series MVP Tom Glavine allowed just one hit in eight innings, and Mark Wohlers pitched a perfect ninth to seal the championship, the first in Atlanta’s history. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1996 | * | National League All-Star Ellis Burks re-signs with the Colorado Rockies, agreeing to a two-year deal through 1998. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1999 | * | Warner Bros. Co-Chairman and longtime Dodger fan Bob Daly was named Los Angeles Dodger Chairman and Managing General Partner. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2001 | * | George W. Bush becomes the the eighth president to attend a World Series game and the first since Dwight D. Eisenhower to throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Wearing a NY Fire Department windbreaker in honor of the heroes of the September 11 attacks, the Commander in Chief walks to the mound by himself, gives a thumbs up, and throws a perfect strike to the Yankees' backup catcher much to the delight of the stadium faithful. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Curt Schilling, who named his son Gehrig, receives the 2001 Roberto Clemente Award for his contributions to numerous charities, including ALS which is better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. The Diamondback right-hander, who won World Series opener yesterday, was selected due his outstanding baseball skills combined with devoted work within the community. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | The Mets, after being unable to get permission to talk to Lou Piniella from Seattle and deciding not to wait ten days after World Series for the availability Giant skipper Dusty Baker, give Art Howe a four-year, $9.4 million deal to manage the team. New York's new skipper managed the A's to two AL West titles (2000, 2002) championships with his teams winning 383 games during the last four seasons matching Joe Torre's Yankee total. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | The Marlins do not renew the contract of John Routh, the 43-year-old man who has been Billy the Marlin, since the Florida's first game in 1993. Although 'Billy' will return next season, a new person will be hired to wear the 35- pound costume as the team is seeks to increase the mascot's visibility by changing the overall role of the character. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | Signing the veteran manager to a four-year contract, the Devil Rays name Lou Piniella as their team's new skipper. As compensation to sign 'Sweet Lou' away from Seattle, Tampa Bay sends their All-Star outfielder Randy Winn (.298, 14, 75) to Seattle for minor leaguer Antonio Perez. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1946 | | Our favorite flying cowboy was heard on ABC radio for the first time. Sky King starred Jack Lester, then Earl Nightingale, and finally, Roy Engel, as Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky’s niece Penny; Jack Bivens was Chipper and Cliff Soubier was the foreman. Sky King was sponsored by Mars candy. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | | Jack Benny took his well-known radio show [on radio for 20 years] to television without missing a beat. Audiences watching CBS-TV this night at 7:30 p.m. finally got to see the stingy, vain-about-his-age, Benny. There he was with his violin, ancient Maxwell car, and his basement vault in living black and white. Eventually, TV audiences got to see Jack Benny, his wife Mary Livingstone, and his friends Eddy ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Don Wilson and Dennis Day in living color. The show lasted on TV for fifteen years! | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | A local kid, Buddy Holly, from Lubbock, TX opens a concert for Marty Robbins and Elvis Presley. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Brian Epstein, a record store owner in London, is asked by a customer for a copy of the record, "My Bonnie", by a group known as The Silver Beatles. He didn’t have it in stock so he went to the Cavern Club to check out the group. He signed to manage them in a matter of days and renamed them The Beatles. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1971 | * | John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Rhoda Morgenstern made TV history as she married Joe Girard on Rhoda on CBS. The show was a spin-off from the hugely successful The Mary Tyler Moore Show. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1980 | * | Annette Funicello, Cubby O’Brien, Tommy Cole, Sherry Alberoni and Dickie Dodd joined other Mouseketeers wearing black ears and white shirts on a sound stage in Burbank, CA. They were celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Mickey Mouse Club. While we’re celebrating the Mickey Mouse Club, do you remember the five special events each week? There was Fun with Music Day on Monday, Guest Star Day on Tuesday, Anything Can Happen Day on Wednesday, Circus Day on Thursday and Talent Roundup Day on Friday. “Y? Because we LIKE you!” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1017 | * | Henry III, King of Holy Romam Empire and Germany (1046-56), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1585 | * | Cornelius Otto Jansen, Flemish Roman Catholic reform leader, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1810 | * | Brig Gen Adley H Gladden, LA, killed at Shiloh, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1818 | * | Ivan Turgenev Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1820 | * | Birth of John H. Hopkins, a leader in the development of Episcopal church hymnody during the mid-19th century. Today, he is better remembered as the author and composer of the Christmas hymn, "We Three Kings of Orient Are." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1842 | * | Anna Elizabeth Dickinson abolitionist, women’s rights advocate, orator, author: ‘American Joan of Arc’; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1846 | * | Auguste Escoffier ‘King of Chefs and Chef of Kings’: invented Peach Melba; Legion d’Honneur: contribution to international reputation of French cuisine; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1875 | * | Gilbert Grosvenor, editor, turned the National Geographic Socirty's irregularly published pamphlet into a periodical with a circulation of nearly two million, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1896 | * | Howard Hanson, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Symphony No. 4 [1944]; George Foster Peabody Award [1946]; Laurel Leaf of the American Composers Alliance [1957]; Huntington Hartford Foundation Award [1959]; Priz de Rome [1921]; president: Eastman School of Music; is born in Wahoo NE. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1896 | * | Ruth Gordon Mass, actress (Rosemary's Baby, Harold & Maude), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | Edith Head Academy Award-winning costume designer: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1960, 1973; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | * | Elsa Lanchester, Lewisham London, actress (Bride of Frankenstien), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Evelyn Waugh London, author (Brideshead Revisited), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Edith Head fashion designer (MGM), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1907 | * | Lew Parker actor (Lou Marie-That Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Francis Bacon, English artist who painted expressionist portraits, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1910 | * | Marie Dollinger Germany, dropped baton in 1936 Olympic sprint, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Richard Doll, English epidemiologist who established a link between tobacco smoke and cancer, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1914 | * | Dr Jonas Salk, NYC, medical researcher, made polio a fear of the past, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Dody Goodman comedienne, actress: Forever Fernwood, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Jack Paar Show, Punky Brewster, Diff’rent Strokes; TV panelist: Liar’s Club, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1926 | * | Bowie Kuhn attorney; baseball commissioner [1969-1984], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | Cleo Laine Middlesex England, singer (Flesh to a Tiger), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Mr. and Mrs. T.W. Evans were presented with a baby girl -- in an airplane, somewhere over Florida. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1929 | * | Dody Goodman Columbus Ohio, actress (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Joan Plowright actress: Avalon, Dennis the Menace, Enchanted April, The Merchant of Venice, Equus, The Entertainer; wife of actor Lord Lawrence Olivier, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1930 | * | Bruce Morton Emmy Award-winning news correspondent: The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite: Reports from the Lt. Calley Trial [1970-71]; CNN, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Suzy Parker (Cecelia Anne Renee Parker) model, actress: The Interns, The Best of Everything, Ten North Frederick, Funny Face; is born in San Antonio TX. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1934 | * | Jim Beatty National Track & Field Hall of Famer: LA Track Club distance runner; Sullivan Award-winner [1962]: AAU indoor-mile champion [1961-63]: first person to run an indoor mile under 4 minutes [3:59.9], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | Charlie Daniels, CMA Award-winning musician [1979]: guitar, fiddle; singer: group: Charlie Daniels Band: The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Uneasy Rider, Still in Saigon; in film: Urban Cowboy, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Lenny Wilkens Basketball Hall of Famer: St. Louis Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers; player/coach: Seattle Supersonics: 1979 NBA championship, Portland Trail Blazers; VP/General Mgr.: Seattle Supersonics; coach: Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Jane Alexander (Quigley) Emmy Award-winning actress (The Betsy, Kramer vs Kramer), is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Gennadi M Strekalov cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Curtis Lee singer: Pretty Little Angel Eyes, Under the Moon of Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Hank Marvin (Brian Rankin) musician: guitar: group: The Shadows: Apache, Kon Tiki, Wonderful Land, Dance On, Foot Tapper, Don’t Cry for Me Argentina, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Michael (John) Crichton writer: Jurassic Park, Twister, Rising Sun, The Great Train Robbery, The Terminal Man, Disclosure, The Great Impostor, The Secret of Canta Victoria, Congo; director: Runaway, Coma, Westworld, The Great Train Robbery, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Randy Newman, entertainer, is born. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1944 | * | Coluche France comedian/actor (My Best Friend's Girl), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Dennis Franz (Schlachta) Emmy Award-winning actor: N.Y.P.D. Blue [1995-1996, 1996-1997, 1998-1999]; Nasty Boys, Hill Street Blues, Chicago Story, Beverly Hills Buntz, The Bay City Blues, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Body Double, Psycho 2, Dressed to Kill, is born in Maywood IL. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Wayne Fontana (Glyn Ellis) singer: group: The Mindbenders: Game of Love, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um; solo: Come on Home, Pamela Pamela, is born in Manchester England. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Tom Fitzsimmons SF CA, actor (Franklin-The Paper Chase), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Telma Hopkins singer: group: Dawn: Candida, Knock Three Times, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree; actress: A New Kind of Family, Getting By, Family Matters, Bosom Buddies, Gimme a Break, Tony Orlando and Dawn, is born in Louisville KY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | J.D. Hill football: Arizona State, Buffalo Bills WR, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Rick Reynolds musician: guitar: group: Black Oak Arkansas: Memories at the Window, Jim Dandy to the Rescue, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Bruce (William) Jenner National Track & Field and Olympic Hall of Famer: Olympic Gold Medalist: decathlon winner [1976]; AP Athlete of the Year, Sullivan Award-winner [1976]; sportscaster; Wheaties box star, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Annie Potts actress: Designing Women, Love & War, Goodtime Girls, Breaking the Rules, Who’s Harry Crumb?, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Ghost Busters series, is born in Nashville TN. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | Mrs. Gates names her baby boy - "William". | Ref: 2 |
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| 1957 | * | Stephen Morris rocker (New Order-Round & Round), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Neville Henry rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Walther Bauersfeld 1919 inventor (1st modern projection planetarium), dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1960 | * | Tony Montana (Julio Gonzales) actor: X-rated films: is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | Mark Derwin Park Forest Ill, actor (AC Mallet-Guiding Light), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Daphne Zuniga actress (Gross Anatomy, Fly II, Spaceballs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Veronica Gamba Buenos Aires Arg, playmate (November, 1983), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Lauren Holly actress: Dumb & Dumber, All My Children, A Smile Like Yours, Picket Fences, Down Periscope, Chicago Hope, Any Given Sunday, What Women Want, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Paul Wylie Olympic medalist: figure skating, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | Jami Gertz Chicago, actress (Less the Zero, Crossroads, Solarbabies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Lauren Holly actress (All My Children), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Julia Roberts Academy Award-winning actress: Erin Brockovich [2000]; Pretty Woman, Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, Dying Young, Hook, The Pelican Brief, I Love Trouble, Mary Reilly, Blood Red, Flatliners, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Conspiracy Theory, Runaway Bride, Ocean’s Eleven, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | Joaquin Phoenix actor: Parenthood, SpaceCamp, Russkies, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Walking the Dog, Return to Paradise, Clay Pigeons, 8MM, Gladiator, Buffalo Soldiers, is born in Puerto Rico. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Brooke Burns actress: Baywatch, Out of the Blue, To Tell the Truth, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1978 | * | Lauren Woodland actress: Alien Nation, Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up, Sunset Beach, Port Charles, Undressed, The Young and the Restless, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 901 | * | King Alfred the Great dies. Ref | |
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| 1412 | | Queen Margaret Denmrk/Norwy/Swedn dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1626 | * | Willebord van Roijen dutch mathematician, dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1703 | * | John Wallis, English mathematician, dies at age 86. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1704 | * | John Locke, philosopher of liberalism whose ideas influenced the American founding fathers, famous for his treatise An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, dies at age 72. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1740 | * | Anna Ivanova Romanova daughter of Ivan V/empress of Russia (1730-40), dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1818 | * | Abigail Smith Adams, wife of the 2nd US president and mother of the 6th US president, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1891 | * | An earthquake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Sir John Abbott PM of Canada (C) (1891-92), dies at 72. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | (Friedrich) Max Muller, German orientalist scholar, dies at age 76. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1901 | * | Race riots sparked by Booker T. Washington's visit to the White House kill 34. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1901 | * | Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show train colides head first with another killing many animals and people. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1916 | * | Cleveland Abbe meteorologist: first U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologist; dies at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1929 | * | Prince Bernhard von Bulow, Chancellor of Germany 1900-1909, dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1942 | * | Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Helen Magill White, American educator and first American woman to earn a Ph.D. degree, dies at age 90. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1957 | * | Anthony J. Morabito, founder and co-owner of the 49ers, died of a heart attack during a game against the Bears at Kezar Stadium. Ref | |
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| 1965 | * | Earl Bostic alto sax player, bandleader: Flamingo, Sleep, You Go to My Head, Cherokee, Temptation; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1980 | * | Leon Janney actor (Hawk), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Kirby Grant Hoon Jr., Butte Mont, actor (Sky King), dies in an auto accident at 74. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Andr‚ Masson France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | John Gerard Braine, English novelist; one of the "Angry Young Men", dies at age 65. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1991 | * | John Korbal film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Tobacco heiress Doris Duke dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1996 | * | Actor, comedian Morey Amsterdam dies at age 81. | Ref: 68 |
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| 2001 | * | Gunmen kill 16 people in a church in Behawalpur, Pakistan. (XDG, p 4A, 10/28/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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