| 1429 | * | Henry VI is crowned King of England. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1789 | * | Pope Pius VI appointed the Rt. Rev. John Carroll the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States (in the diocese of Baltimore). Carroll’s consecration took place at Lulworth Castle, England, Aug 15, 1790. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1813 | * | Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1844 | * | Spain grants Dominican Rep independence. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1850 | * | The first fire engine arrives in Hawaii. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1850 | * | Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (San Francisco Bay) reserved for military use. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1853 | * | The first Chinese Presbyterian Church in the U.S. was organized in San Francisco, CA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1860 | * | Abraham Lincoln, who had declared "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free..." is elected president, the first Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1862 | * | Direct telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco is established. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | * | British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1885 | * | US mint at Carson City, NV directed to close. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1888 | * | Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-IN) beats incumbant President Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more popular votes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | President William McKinley ® is re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Republican Charles Evans Hughes was elected governor of NY, defeating newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | Francisco Madeiro inaugurated President of Mexico. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | (Prohibition) Maine becomes a dry state. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1913 | | Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1916 | * | Lifelong feminist and pacifist Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | The Russian Insurrection proper takes place in the evening. | Ref: 90 |
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| 1917 | * | The Russian government delivered a counter-stroke against the insurgency by occupying the newspaper offices of the Bolsheviks, but this merely gave Trotsky a pretext to strike the first blow. The revolution began without a shot. Insurgent troops occupied all bridges, railroad stations, post offices and other public buildings. The Winter Palace, seat of the Provisional Government, was taken without much trouble. The cruiser Aurora in Neva river simply bombarded the Winter Palace, as the insurgents fought against a few ensigns and a battalion of women. This was all the government could get to defend itself. | Ref: 90 |
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| 1917 | * | Late in the evening the Soviet Congress met as planned. Though the Bolsheviks did not have a absolute majority, they could rely on the support of the left wing Social Revolutionaries. The sessions had hardly begun when the right wing Social Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks declared that the Congress could not continue to meet under the threat of arms which the bombardment of the Winter Palace had just signaled. As a protest against the insurrection they left the hall. In so doing they surrendered the field to the Bolsheviks. | Ref: 90 |
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| 1918 | * | Republic of Poland proclaimed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Discovery of sealed tomb of King Tut by Howard Carter. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1923 | * | USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | (Sweet) John Smith narrowly defeats Klan-supported candidate Charles Bowles to become Detroit's new mayor. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1923 | * | As European inflation soars, one loaf of bread in Berlin is reported to be worth about 140 billion German marks. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1924 | * | Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of England. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | In a first, the results of Herbert Hoover's election victory over Alfred E. Smith were flashed onto an electric sign outside the New York Times building. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1930 | * | President Herbert Hoover awards the coveted Medal of Honor to Eddie Rickenbacker for his "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty" in attacking seven enemy airplanes while on Sep. 25, 1918, shooting down two. | Ref: 50 |
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| 1940 | * | Franklin D. Roosevelt was reelected President of the United States, defeating Republican Wendell L. Willkie (by nearly 5 million votes). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his VP, Richard M. Nixon, were reelected, as they defeated Democrats Adlai E. Stevenson and his running mate, Estes Kefauver (by some 9.5 million votes). The campaign theme had been expanded from “I Like Ike” (used in 1952) to “I Like Ike, Peace & Prosperity”. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | | Suez Canal cease fire. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1957 | * | Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Edward M Kennedy first elected (Sen-D-MA). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Richard M. Nixon lost the CA election for governor to Edmund Brown. Nixon blamed the news media for his loss and promised, “You don’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.” | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Laura Welch, (later Laura Bush, wife of President George W. Bush) was driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. when she ran a stop sign and struck a Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas. Douglas was killed. Welch and a passenger, Judy Dykes, also 17, were taken to a hospitaland treated for minor injuries, according to an accident account printed at the time in the Midland [TX] Reporter-Telegram. (Ref: JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press) | |
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| 1969 | * | (Manson) While incarcerated in Los Angeles on other charges, Susan Atkins tells a fellow inmate, Virginia Castro (Graham), that she participated in the Tate murders. She tells Castro of a "death list" of celebrities targeted by the Family, including Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Tom Jones, Steve McQueen, and Frank Sinatra. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1971 | * | Democrat Janet Gray Hayes of San Jose becomes first woman mayor of major American city. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1973 | * | Coleman Young becomes the first African-American mayor of Detroit, Michigan. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1973 | * | Abe Beame elected first jewish mayor on NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Benjamin L. Hooks was chosen to be the new executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, succeeding Roy Wilkins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | | Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | For the first time in 193 years, the NY Stock Exchange remained open during a presidential election day. Traders shouted “Boo! Boo! Boo!” in disgust, but the Dow Jones industrial average jumped almost 15 points on sales of 101.2 million shares. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | * | President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | General Jaruzelski elected Poland's head of state. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | The stock market hits 1400 on its way up | Ref: 62 |
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| 1985 | * | Exploratory well at Ranger TX, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Edy’s Ice Cream Company took out a $250,000 policy to protect the taste buds of John Harrison, ice cream taste-tester. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | The Iran arms-for-hostages deal is revealed, damaging the Reagan administration. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1986 | * | Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Transit of Mercury. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | Former President George H.W. Bush opens his presidential library at Texas A&M University. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1999 | * | Australians rejected a referendum to drop Britain's queen as their head of state. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2001 | * | Billionaire Republican Michael Bloomberg won NY City's mayoral race, defeating Democrat Mark Green. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | Counterfeit $20 bills surface in three [Xenia OH] area businesses, less than a month after the new twentys were issued (October 9, 2003) (XDG, p 1, 11/07/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1572 | * | Supernova is observed in the constellation known as Cassiopeia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Col. Jacob Schick was issued a patent for the electric razor | Ref: 62 |
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| 1928 | * | The first Motogram machine was installed -- on the NY Times Building. It showed election returns via an electric flasher. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | RCA displays TV for the press. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1966 | * | Lunar Orbiter 2 - USA Lunar Orbiter orbited the moon, photographed the far side for potential Apollo landing sites, then impacted on command. | Ref: 40 |
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| 1967 | * | US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, CA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2003 | * | Voyager 1, launched August 20, 1977, is on the verge of interstellar space, 8.32B miles from Earth, more than 3 times farther from the Sun than Pluto. Radioactive batteries are expected to power the vessel until the year 2020. (USA Today, p 11D) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1792 | * | Victory of French over Austrians in Battle of Jemappes. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1812 | * | The first winter snow falls on the French Army as Napoleon Bonaparte retreats form Moscow. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1861 | * | Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1863 | * | A Union force surrounds and scatters defending Confederates at the Battle of Droop Mountain, in WV. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | Passchendaele captured by Canadians. British Mesopotamian forces reach Tekrit, 100 miles northwest of Bagdad. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1940 | * | RCN destroyer Ottawa and RN destroyer Harvester sink Italian submarine Faa di Bruno off Ireland. | |
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| 1943 | * | Russians recapture Kiev in the Ukraine. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1944 | * | Middelburg, capital of Walcheren island, is freed from German occupation. | |
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| 1869 | * | The first intercollegiate football (soccer) game was played -- in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4, with each team fielding 25 men, though not all at once. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1883 | * | The first American cross-country championships were held, sponsored by the NY Athletic Club. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | Branch Rickey signs a five-year deal with the Pirates to be the club's executive vice president and general manager. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1956 | * | Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | For the first time in Cy Young Award voting history a tie occurs with Tiger Denny McLain and Oriole Mike Cuellar receiving equal votes from the BBWAA for being the best pitcher in the American League. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1976 | * | After having a career year with the Twins, Bill Campbell becomes one of the first players to cash in on the new free-agent system. The reliever signs with the Red Sox for big money (four year, one million dollar contract). | Ref: 1 |
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| 1976 | * | Mike Marshall becomes the first relief pitcher to win the Cy Young Award. The 'Iron Man' set major league records for penmen with innings pitched (206), game appearances (106), consecutive games (14) and games finished (83) | Ref: 1 |
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| 1984 | * | Willie Hernandez joins Rollie Fingers as the only other reliever to win the MVP award and Cy Young Award in the same season. The Tiger closer had edged out fellow relief pitcher Dan Quisenberry for the top pitching prize a week ago. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1987 | * | The Reds trade pitcher Ted Power and shortstop Kurt Stillwell to the Royals for pitcher Danny Jackson and shortstop Angel Salazar. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1988 | * | Japan & MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Steve Jones wins NY men's marathon; Grete Waitz 9th women's title. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Evander Holyfield defeats Riddick Bowe in the 12th round to win the Heavyweight Boxing title. | |
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| 1995 | * | Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced plans to move his team to Baltimore. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1997 | * | The Brewers, as part of Phase One of Major League Baseball's realignment plan, became a member of the National League. The Brewers transfer, the first since the American League was formed at the turn of the century, was necessary to create a 16-team National League and a 14-team American League. Milwaukee joined the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Central Division. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1998 | * | The Colorado Rockies sign Darryl Hamilton to a three-year contract. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2000 | * | Mariner closer Kazuhiro Sasaki (2-5, 3.16, 37 saves) becomes the second-oldest major leaguer to win rookie of the year honors as the 32-year old captures the American League honor. Boston Braves rookie Sam Jethroe was 33 days older than the Japanese reliever when he won the National League award in 1950. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Denying its a negotiating ploy, Commissioner Bud Selig is given the authority to "begin the process" of eliminating two 'to be announced' teams by the major league owners by a 28-2 vote. Donald Fehr, the Players Association executive director, calls the action of possibly eliminating the Expos, Twins or Marlins most imprudent and unfortunate and the worst manner in which to begin the process of negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | Citing Dusty Baker's reluctance to stay with the organization, an unhappy general manager Brian Sabean announces the Giant skipper of the last 10 years will not be back to manage in San Francisco next season. The National League pennant-winning skipper has supposedly expressed an interest in the Cubs and Mariners. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | Thirty-nine year old southpaw Randy Johnson wins his fifth (fourth consecutive with the Diamondbacks) Cy Young Award. The 'Big Unit' with 24 victories, 334 strikeouts and an 2.32 era becomes the first National League hurler since Dwight Gooden in 1985 to win pitching equivalent of the triple crown. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1882 | * | ‘The Jersey Lily of England’ made her American debut. Lily Langtry starred in An Unequal Match which opened in New York City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1899 | * | William Gillette starred in Sherlock Holmes at the production’s debut in NY City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1903 | * | The original stage production of Sir James Barrie’s Peter Pan opened in NY. Maude Adams starred in the play that ran for two years. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1905 | * | "Peter Pan,"Philip Barrie's play without music, opens on Broadway starring Maude Adams. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1922 | * | Cleveland's Palace Theater opens. | |
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| 1936 | * | This was the day that big band icon Woody Herman played in his first recording session. He waxed Wintertime Dreams (Decca disc #1056). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), first commercial TV station, begins service. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians recorded one of their lesser-known songs for Decca. The Moon Fell in the River is no Stars Fell on Alabama, and it sure isn’t Auld Lang Syne, we’ll tell ya. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | | HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | "Meet The Press" makes its NBC-TV debut. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | | The first motion picture premiere was seen coast to coast as TV viewers watched Rex Harrison and Margaret Leighton star in The Constant Husband. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | Jefferson Airplane headline first Bill Graham show, SF | Ref: 62 |
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| 1966 | * | First entire lineup televised in color (NBC). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Phil Donahue began a TV talk show in Dayton, Ohio. Later, the show moved to Chicago, was syndicated by Multimedia Productions and was highly rated for years. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | First appearance of the Sex Pistols. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | The world premiere of the movie The Rose was held at the Ziegfeld Theatre in NY City (with party at the Roseland Ballroom). The movie starred Bette Midler as a rock singer caught in the fast lane of drugs and death. The premiere and party raised $60,000 for the Phoenix House, a drug rehab organization. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | | Rabbits invaded the bunny hutch at the Playboy Empire Club in New York City. Sixteen males in tuxedos, minus shirts, joined with 52 bunnies for the first time in the 25-year history of the Playboy Clubs. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | WOR-TV in Secaucus, NJ paid $182,000 per episode of The Cosby Show -- for the fall, 1988 season. The price was a record offering for a syndicated show. It beat the previous mark of $80,000 per show (for Cheers). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | * | US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Pearl Jam’s album Vs. rose to #1 in the U.S. The tracks on the smash (number one for five weeks) album: Go, Animal, Daughter, Glorified G, Dissident, WMA, Blood, Rearviewmirror, Rats, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Leash and Indifference. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2002 | * | A jury in Beverly Hills, Calif., convicted Winona Ryder of stealing $5,500 worth of high-fashion merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue, but a prosecutor said she would not seek to put the actress behind bars. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1494 | * | Hans Sachs, German meistersinger, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1558 | * | Thomas Kyd English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1619 | * | Philips Koninck, Dutch painter, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1661 | * | Charles II last Habsburg king of Spain (1665-1700), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1671 | * | Colley Cibber England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1746 | * | Absalom Jones Delaware, born into slavery, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1771 | * | Alois Senefelder inventor (lithography), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1779 | * | Washington Allston, American painter, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1814 | * | Adolphe (Antoine) Sax, Belgian musician and inventor of the saxophone, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1825 | * | Charles Garnier, French architect, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1832 | * | Joseph Smith III, American religious leader; president of Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (1860-1914), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1835 | * | Cesare Lombroso professor of psychiatry: founder: criminology: identifying criminals by personality types; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1836 | * | Francis Ellingwood Abbot Boston, theologian (Scientific Theism), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1851 | * | Charles Henry Dow, American financial journalist who (with Edward D. Jones) inaugurated the Dow-Jones averages, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1854 | * | Composer, bandleader, John Phillip Sousa is born in Washington, D.C. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1860 | * | Ignace Jan Paderewski Kurylowka Poland, composer/pianist/patriot, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | * | James Naismith, Canadian physical education instructor who, in 1891, invented the game of basketball, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1861 | * | Charles Henry Dow, American journalist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1887 | * | Walter Johnson KS, Wash Senator pitcher (1907-27) (414-218), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | John Sigvard Olsen Wabash IN, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Harold Ross, American founder/editor of The New Yorker (1925-51), is born in Aspen CO. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1892 | * | Sir John William Alcock, British aviator, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1893 | * | Edsel Ford is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1896 | * | Jim Jordan (James Edward Jordan) actor: radio’s Fibber McGee and Molly; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1901 | * | Juanita Hall Keyport NJ, actress (Capt Billy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Charles Henry Dow, American journalist, dies at age 51. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1904 | * | Selena Royale NYC, actress (Date With Judy, Misleading Lady), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Francis Lederer actor (Diary of a Chambermaid), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Ray Conniff choral/orchestra director: theme from Dr. Zhivago; LP: S’wonderful, Somewhere My Love; musician: trombone; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1921 | * | James (Ramon) Jones novelist: From Here to Eternity, Some Came Running, The Thin Red Line; is born in Robinson IL. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1923 | * | Robert P Griffin actor (Barricade, Broken Arrow, Crime of Passion), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Peter Matz Pittsburgh PA, orchestra leader (Hullabaloo, Carol Burnett Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Mike Nichols (Michael Igor Peschkowsky) Academy Award-winning director: The Graduate [1967]; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Silkwood, Postcards from the Edge, The Day of the Dolphin; comedian: [w/Elaine May], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Stonewall Jackson singer: Waterloo, Me and You and a Dog Named Boo, Help Stamp Out Loneliness, B.J. the D.J., Why I’m Walkin’, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Knut Johannesen Norway, 5K/10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1937 | * | Eugene Pitt singer: group: The Genies: Who’s that Knockin’; group: Jive Five: Never Never, What Time is It?, I’m a Happy Man; solo: My True Story, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | P.J. Proby (James Smith) singer: Hold Me, Together, Somewhere, Maria, Niki Hoeky, Love Will Tear Us Apart; actor: ‘Jet Powers’, Catch My Soul, Elvis on Stage, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Doug Sahm singer: group: founded Sir Douglas Quintet: She’s about a Mover; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | | Jean Shrimpton is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1943 | * | Michael Schwerner civil rights worker, murdered in 1964, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Mike Clifford singer: Close to Cathy, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Sally Field (Sally Mahoney) Academy Award-winning actress: Norma Rae [1979], Places in the Heart [1984]; Gidget series, Steel Magnolias, Mrs. Doubtfire, Smokey and the Bandit series, Hooper, Forrest Gump, Absence of Malice; Emmy Award-winner: The Big Event/NBC World Premiere Movie: Sybil [1977]; The Flying Nun, Gidget, The Girl with Something, is born in Pasadena CA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | George Young musician: guitar: group: The Easybeats: She’s So Fine, Wedding Ring, Sad and Lonely and Blue, Woman, Come and See Her, Friday on My Mind, Hello How are You, Good Times; AC/DC, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Jack Arnold character on Wonder Years, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Glenn Frey musician, songwriter, singer: group: The Eagles: Take It Easy, One of These Nights, Lyin’ Eyes, Hotel California, New Kid in Town, Life in the Fast Lane, Heartache Tonight; solo: Smuggler’s Blues; LP: No Fun Aloud, The Allnighter, The Heat is On, You Belong to the City, is born in Detroit MI. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Nigel Havers actor: Lie Down with Lions, The Burning Season, Farewell to the King, The Little Princess, Empire of the Sun, A Passage to India, Chariots of Fire, Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Brad Davis Tallahassee FL, actor (Roots, Chiefs), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Ernest Thompson Bellows Fall VT, actor (Sierra, Westside Medical), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | John (Robert) Candelaria ‘Candy Man’: baseball: pitcher: Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1977/World Series: 1979], California Angels, NY Mets, NY Yankees, Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays, LA Dodgers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Catherine Cryer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Maria Shriver [Mrs A Schwartenegger], Chicago IL, newscaster (Sunday Today), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Trace Beaulieu actor, puppeteer: Mystery Science Theater 3000, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Teri Peterson Santa Monica Cal, playmate (July, 1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Lance Kerwin Newport Beach Ca, (James at 15, The Lonliest Runner), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Lori Singer actress: Fame, Born Beautiful, Footloose, Summer Heat, Equinox, Short Cuts, Sunset Grill, VR.5; musician: cellist: Bach Cello Suite #4: Sarabande, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1962 | * | Lori Singer Corpus Christi TX, actress (Fame, V, Footloose), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Lisa Fuller Los Angeles CA, actress (Dawn-General Hospital), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Peter DeLuise actor (Free Ride), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Jana McCoy Portales NM, Miss NM-America (1991), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Rebecca Schaeffer Eugene Oregon, actress (Patti-My Sister Sam), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Kelly Rutherford Elizabethtown Kentucky, actress (Generations), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Ethan Hawke Austin, TX, actor (Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Thandie Newton actress: Mission: Impossible II, Flirting, Interview with the Vampire, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1972 | * | Rebecca Romijn-Stamos actress: Just Shoot Me, Dirty Work, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | Zoe McLellan actress: Sliders, Silk Stalkings, Diagnosis Murder, Star Trek: Voyager, The Invisible Man, Dungeons & Dragons, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1978 | * | Nicole Dubuc actress: Our House, Major Dad, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1406 | * | Sir John Falstaff, English knight, dies. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1406 | * | Pope Innocent VII dies. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1612 | | Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1632 | * | Catholic commander Wallenstein beaten at Battle of Lutzen, but Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus dies in battle. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1650 | | William II of Orange dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1656 | | King John IV Portugal dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1672 | * | Heinrich Schutz, German composer, dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1793 | | Louis Philippe-Joseph Duc d'Orleans dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1796 | * | Catherine The Great dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1822 | * | Comte Claude-Louis Berthollet, French chemist, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1836 | * | King Charles X, French king (1824-30), dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1839 | * | Rabbi Hayim Rapoport of Ostrowiec author (Maxim Chayyim), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1842 | * | William Hone author: [The Every-Day Book] Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements; “A good lather is half the shave.”; dies at age 62. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1891 | * | Comanche, the only 7th Cavalry horse to survive George Armstrong Custer's "Last Stand" at the Little Bighorn, dies at Fort Riley, KS. Was there a cover-up of the real events surrounding the legendary battle at Little Bighhorn? | Ref: 2 |
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| 1893 | * | Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, dies of cholera in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53 after knowingly drinking unboiled water | Ref: 68 |
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| 1901 | * | Kate Greenaway, English artist and book illustrator (Mother Goose), dies at age 55. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1928 | * | (Black Sox) Arnold Rothstein dies at age 46 from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1935 | * | Billy Sunday, American evangelist, former professional baseball player, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1935 | * | Henry Fairfield Osborn, American paleontologist and museum administrator, dies at age 78. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1941 | * | William Sulzer, New York governor (1913); impeached and removed from office, dies at age 78. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1944 | * | Hannah Senesh Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel kindergarten art teacher: her work was inspiration for the famous Hummel figurines; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | Jack McGrath auto racer: Indy 500 [1955]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1962 | * | Howard Garis, American creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories, dies at age 89. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1968 | * | Charles Munch, German-born conductor, dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1969 | * | Robert Wood, American business executive, dies at age 90. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1972 | * | Tod Andrews actor (Gray Ghost, Counterthrust), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | Patrick Dennis, author, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1977 | * | In Toccoa Falls, GA, the Barnes Lake Dam burst, following heavy rains, and the resulting flood destroyed the (Christian and Missionary Alliance) campus of Toccoa Falls Bible Institute. Thirty_eight students and instructors were also killed in the tragedy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American sculptor and designer, dies at age 63. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1978 | * | Flora Campbell actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy), dies at 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Mary Michael actress (Birdie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Ross R Barnett lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss), dies at 89. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | William C Pahlmann interior decorator (4 Seasons NYC), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Arne Borg, Swedish champion swimmer, dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1989 | * | Dickie Goodman (Richard Dorian Goodman) parody singer: group: Buchanan and Goodman: Flying Saucer [Parts 1 & 2], Mr. Jaws; dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Gene Tierney actress: Laura, The Pleasure Seekers, Leave Her to Heaven, Belle Starr, Heaven Can Wait, A Bell for Adano, Dragonwyck, Advise and Consent, dies at age 70 of emphysema. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1996 | * | Mario Savio, protester at UC-Berkeley, dies at age 53 at Sebastopol CA. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
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| 2001 | | Anthony Shaffer dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 2003 | * | Tom West (aka Joseph John Eschenbrenner III), a former employee of Watkins Motor Lines in Atlanta GA, kills two and wounds three, in the West Chester OH (a Cincinnati suburb) offices of Watkins Motor Lines. West was arrested 2½ hours later at a truck stop in New Point IN along I-74. (XDG, p 1, 11/07/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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