| 680 | * | 3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1631 | * | Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1637 | * | Controversial colonial religious leader Anne Hutchinson, 46, was convicted of spreading heresy and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Mrs. Hutchinson afterward relocated in Rhode Island with her family and friends. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1659 | | Treaty of Pyrenees between France and Spain marks end of Spain's ascendency in Europe. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1769 | * | At the opening of the legislative session in Williamsburg, Governor Botetourt announces that the British ministry would seek repeal of the Townshend Duties, except the tax on tea. | |
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| 1774 | * | At the Yorktown Tea Party, two half-chests of tea imported by John Prentis & Company of Williamsburg were thrown into the York River. | |
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| 1775 | * | Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, declares martial law and promises freedom to male slaves who join British army. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1793 | * | During the French Revolution, "Christianity" was abolished on this date. Reason was deified, and as many as 2,000 churches were afterward destroyed throughout France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1820 | * | James Monroe, the 5th President of U.S., was reelected. Monroe was unopposed for the Democratic-Republican party nomination and ran unopposed in the general election. Only one elector did not vote for him. The reason (according to legend) was so that George Washington would be the only president unanimously chosen by the electoral college. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1848 | * | General Zachary Taylor emerged as a hero of the Mexican War (1846-1948) and was nominated as the presidential candidate at the Whig convention in June 1848. He defeated the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass, and was elected the 12th President of the United Stated this day. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1872 | | The Mary Celeste sets sail for Genoa. She will be found 4 weeks later abandoned at sea, the whereabouts of her crew unknown. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1876 | * | Edward Bouchet, is first black to receive a PhD in US college (Yale). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1876 | * | Meharry Medical College established at Central TN College. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1876 | * | The outcome of the election of 1876 was not known until the week before the inauguration itself. Democrat Samuel Tilden had won the greater number of popular votes and lacked only one electoral vote to claim a majority in the electoral college. Twenty disputed electoral votes, however, kept hopes alive for Republican Governor Rutherford B. (Birchard) Hayes of Ohio. When all was said and done, the Electoral college selected Hayes as the 19th President of the United States. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1877 | * | First state penitentiary for women was opened | Ref: 62 |
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| 1881 | * | Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, two participants in Tombstone, Arizona's, famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, are jailed as the hearings on what happened in the fight grow near. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1885 | * | The Canadian Pacific Railway was completed when the last spike was driven at Craigellachie in British Columbia. The 2,980-mile transcontinental railroad started in Montreal, Quebec, running between Montreal and Port Moody, B.C. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1893 | * | Colorado granted women the right to vote. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1909 | * | Knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile AL. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | Leo Tolstoy, the Russian author considered one of history's greatest novelists, dies at Astapovo station | Ref: 89 |
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| 1916 | * | President Woodrow Wilson is re-elected, but the race is so close that all votes must be counted before an outcome can be determined, so the results are not known until November 11. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1916 | * | Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1921 | * | Benito Mussolini declares himself to be leader of the National Fascist Party in Italy. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1934 | * | Arthur L Mitchell, becomes first black Democratic congressman (Ill). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Ernst vom Rath, third secretary in the German Embassy in Paris, is shot and mortally wounded by Herschel Grynszpan, the 17 year old son of one of the deported Polish Jews. Rath dies on November 9, precipitating Kristallnacht. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1940 | * | At approximately 11:00 a.m. the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed due to wind-induced vibrations, only four months and seven days after dedication. The bridge had become a popular tourist attraction as people came from all around the area came to pay the toll and ride the roller-coaster that was named "Galloping Gertie". The design flaws that allowed that coaster effect were the same that caused its collapse. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | First US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth term, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey. F.D.R. was the only President to be elected for more than two terms; he was elected four times with three different Vice Presidents. He died in office on April 12, 1945, after serving 53 days of his fourth term. Vice President Harry Truman filled the remainder of the term and was elected President in 1948. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | | Constitution of Jordan passed. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | The Taft-Hartley Act is invoked by the Supreme Court to break a steel strike. | Ref: 59 |
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| 1962 | * | Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of CA, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." | Ref: 70 |
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| 1967 | * | Richard G Hatcher elected mayor of Gary IN. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor of a major city - Cleveland, Ohio. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1970 | * | Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew were reelected in a landslide victory (60.7% to 37.5%) over Democrats George McGovern and R. Sargent Shriver). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Congress over-rode President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional approval. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1983 | * | Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Vice President George Bush appears at the Benner Field House in Xenia OH. (XDG, p 7B, 9/30/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1989 | * | L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor in the US, in Virginia by 7000 votes. (XDG, p 4A, 11/7/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1989 | * | David Dinkins was elected New York City's first black major. (XDG, p 4A, 11/7/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1989 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg asked President Reagan to withdraw his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing the clamor that arose over Ginsburg's admission that he had smoked marijuana on occasion. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1993 | * | President Clinton, appearing on NBC's "Meet The Press", assails labor leaders who oppose the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), accusing them of using "naked pressure" to try to kill the pact. (XDG, p 4A, 11/07/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1995 | * | The ambush-rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl, an attack that outraged the Japanese and strained security ties between Japan and the U.S. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1995 | * | More than 2 million people march in Cuba demanding the return of Elian Gonzales. (XDG, p 4A, 12/10/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1996 | * | Microsoft Releases Flight Simulator for Windows 95. | |
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| 1998 | * | House Speaker Newt Gingrich resigned following election results in which the Republican House majority shrunk from 22 to 12. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first first lady to win public office, defeating Republican Rick Lazio for a U.S. Senate seat from New York. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | Americans chose Republican George W. Bush president over incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore by 537 votes, The results of the election were not known for more than a month because of a dispute over votes in Florida. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2001 | * | Concorde flights resume after being grounded after the July 25, 2000 crash in Paris. (USA Today, p 2B, 4/11/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2002 | * | Skylark Meats, Omaha NB, recalls 110K lbs of beef trim and ground beef products for fear of e.coli contamination. (WSJ, p D2, 7/02/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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| 2002 | * | In his first news conference since the midterm elections, President GW Bush said that homeland security came first and an economic recovery with new tax cuts will wait until next year. (XDG, p 4A, 11/07/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | Dick Gephardt steps down as the House Democratic leader in the wake of his party's election losses. (XDG, p 4A, 11/07/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | Xenia [OH] police arrest Wilburforce University student David D Miles for passing counterfeit $20 bills to area merchants. (XDG, p 2A, 11/08/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1805 | * | Lewis & Clark: Thinking he sees the end of land in the distance, Clark writes his most famous journal entry: "Ocian in view! O! the joy." [His spelling.] But they're actually only at the eastern end of Gray's Bay, still 20 miles from sea. Fierce Pacific storms, rolling waters, and high winds pin them down for nearly three weeks, "the most disagreeable time I have experienced," according to Clark. Later, Clark estimates they have traveled 4,162 miles from the mouth of the Missouri to the Pacific. His estimate, based on dead reckoning, will turn out to be within 40 miles of the actual distance. | Ref: 65 |
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| 1875 | * | Verney Cameron becomes the first European to cross equitorial Africa from sea to sea. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1876 | * | The cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook of NY City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1918 | * | Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rocket | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1994 | * | The recently released Pentium chip is found to have a bug that will cause occasional mathematical errors. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1998 | * | John Glenn, 77, returns to earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery, visibly weak, but elated after a nine-day mission. (XDG, p 4A, 11/07/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1811 | * | Rebellious Indians in a conspiracy organized in defiance of the United States government by Tecumseh, Shawnee chief, are defeated during his absence in the Battle of the Wabash (or Tippecanoe), near Indianapolis, by William Henry Harrison, governor of IN Territory, giving Harrison a presidential slogan. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1811 | * | Battle of Tippecanoe, U.S. victory over Shawnee Indians in Indiana. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1814 | * | Andrew Jackson attacks and captures Pensacola, Florida, defeating the Spanish and driving out a British force. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1861 | * | Union General Ulysses S. Grant launches an unsuccessful raid on Belmont, Missouri. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia: Bolshevik socialists, led by Lenin, overthrow the provisional Russian government led by Kerensky. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1917 | * | Allied Supreme War Council created at Rapollo, Italy. | |
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| 1917 | * | British General Sir Edmond Allenby breaks the Turkish defensive line in the Third Battle of Gaza. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | During the night and into the next morning, the Russian government capitulates. | Ref: 90 |
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| 1918 | * | An erroneous United Press report of armistice sets off celebrations | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | British troops launch a limited offensive along the coast of Burma. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1985 | | Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2001 | * | (Afghan Conflict) Fireman apprentice Bryant Davis falls overboard from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk in the Arabian Sea. (USA Today, p 7A, 1/21/2002) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1928 | * | After hitting .387 for the Braves, player-manager Rogers Hornsby is traded to the Cubs for five players and $200,000. The 'Rajah' will hit .380 along with 39 HRs and 149 RBIs for his new club. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1933 | * | Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Yankee backstop Elston Howard wins the American League's Most Valuable Player Award becoming the first black player to receive the honor. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1964 | * | The Braves, for the second time in eleven years, receive permission to shift their franchise to another city. Hank Aaron and company will move from Milwaukee to Atlanta after the 1965 season. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1968 | * | Gordon ‘Red’ Berenson hockey: U. of Michigan; NHL: Montreal Canadiens, NY Rangers, SL Blues [shares NHL record for goals [4] made in one period [11/7/68], Detroit Red Wings; coach | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | Heisman Trophy winner quarterback Jim Plunkett of Stanford completes 22 of 36 passes for 268 yards, 4 TD in a 29-22 win over Washington. (Sports Illustrated, 11/12/2001) | |
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| 1970 | * | Carlos Monzon KO's Nino Benvenuti in the 12th round in Rome, Italy for the middleweight boxing title. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1972 | * | For the second time in three years, Reds' catcher Johnny Bench (.270, 40 ,125) wins the National League MVP award. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1973 | * | The Cubs trade second baseman Glenn Beckert and a minor leaguer to the Padres for outfielder Jerry Morales. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1973 | * | New Jersey became the first state in the U.S.A. where girls were allowed to play on Little League baseball teams. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1983 | * | Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd NY Giant record 56 yard field goal. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Joe Namath, quarterback of the NY Jets and famous for passes both on and off the field, married Deborah Lynn Mays. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | The longest high school football winning streak came to an end. Canyon High of Canyon Country, CA lost 21-20 to Antelope Valley High of nearby Lancaster. Canyon High had 46 consecutive wins before this loss. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1988 | * | Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Indian Sandy Alomar, Jr. wins the AL Rookie of the Year joining Carlton Fisk and Mark McGwire as the only players to be elected unanimously. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1991 | * | Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for the AIDS virus and was retiring from the Lakers. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1991 | * | Fredi Gonzalez is hired as the Florida Marlins first Minor League manager. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1995 | * | Colorado Rockies Don Baylor receives National League Manager of the Year honors for leading his third-year club to postseason play. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1998 | * | The Colorado Rockies sign Lenny Harris and Brian Bohanon to free-agent contracts. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1999 | * | Joseph Chebet and Adriana Fernandez put the frustration of second place behind them, as they won the NY City Marathon. Chebet of Kenya, the runner-up the previous two years, used a powerful last-second kick to finish with a time of 2:09:20. Fernandez of Mexico, who also finished second the previous year, easily won the women’s division with a time of 2:25:06, the second-fastest in the race's history. “I was feeling very strong and decided to take off,” Fernandez said. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | * | Receiving 25-of-32 first-place votes, the BBWAA selects Rafael Furcal as the National League Rookie of the Year. The Braves shortstop, who is the only player listed on all 32 ballots, easily outdistances Cardinal pitcher Rick Ankiel and Mets outfielder Jay Payton. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | USA Today first reports that Major League Baseball is considering dropping two franchises from small market cities. The leading candidates are the Minnesota Twins and the Montreal Expos. If that happens, it is likely that the Arizona Diamondbacks will move from the National League to the American League. | Ref: 13 |
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| 2002 | * | A's southpaw Barry Zito (23-5, 2.75 ) is selected as the American League Cy Young Award winner by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. The 24-year sophomore, who led the AL in wins, out points Red Sox right-hander Pedro Martinez, 114 to 96. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | The Baseball Writers' Association of America select Mike Scioscia (World Champions Angels 99-63) and Tony La Russa (Cardinals - 97-65) as Manager of the Year for their respective leagues. The St. Louis skipper, who also won the award in the American League with White Sox (1983) and the A's (1988,1992) joins Braves' field boss Bobby Cox as the only managers to win the top honors in both leagues. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1665 | | The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1865 | | London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1874 | * | An elephant was first used to represent the Republican party in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1910 | * | Victor Herbert's sixth operetta, "Naughty Marietta"a triumph in U.S. opening. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1914 | | The New Republic magazine was printed for the first time. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1929 | | The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened to the public. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1930 | * | The Waltz You Save for Me, by ‘The Waltz King’ himself, Wayne King, was recorded on Victor. It became King’s theme. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | | CBS radio presented the first broadcast of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin played Buck in the serial over the years (1932-1947). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1937 | | Dr. Christian debuted on CBS radio. Jean Hersholt played the part of the kindly, elderly Dr. Christian who practiced on the air until 1954. Laureen Tuttle, Kathleen Fitz, Helen Kleeb and Rosemary De Camp played his nurse, Judy. The Dr. Christian theme song was Rainbow on the River. Sponsors of the show included Vaseline (petroleum jelly, hair tonic and lip ice). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | | The first broadcast of This Day is Ours was heard on CBS radio. Eleanor McDonald, played by Joan Banks and later by Templeton Fox, had all kinds of problems. Her child was kidnapped, she lost her memory, helped a friend find a killer, etc. The soap opera ran for two years. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | A coin-operated television receiver was displayed in NY City. To sneak a peak at various test patterns and a model of Felix the Cat, folks dropped in a quarter. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Billboard magazine began listing the top 15 popular records. Only 10 songs had been featured previously. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | An adaptation of the mystery play, The Storm, became the first production of Studio One on CBS-TV. Margaret Sullivan starred -- for $500. Studio One continued until 1958. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Elvis Presley hit the charts with Love Me. The song was the first million-seller to make the charts without being released as a single. It was, instead, an EP (extended play) 45 rpm, with three other songs on it: Rip It Up, Paralyzed and When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again -- on RCA Victor. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | "Long Day's Journey into Night"opens in N.Y.-Pulitzer prize. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1963 | | The All-Star Cinerama comedy, "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World" premieres in Hollywood CA. | Ref: 83 |
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| 1967 | * | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1969 | * | John & Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? was released by Columbia. It became the third tune by Chicago to hit the pop music charts. Make Me Smile and 25 or 6 to 4 were previous hits. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? made it to #7 on the charts (January 7, 1971). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1976 | * | Gone With the Wind was aired (over two nights) on NBC-TV. The showing was the highest-rated TV show in history with an audience of 47.7%. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Bruce Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love was the #1 album in the U.S. The rest of the top-five for the week: 2)-Bad (Michael Jackson); 3)-Dirty Dancing (soundtrack); 4)-Whitesnake (Whitesnake); 5)-A Memory Lapse of Reason (Pink Floyd). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1994 | * | The Electrical Engineering Times ran a cover story about flaws in Intel’s Pentium computer chip. The bug, an obscure flaw that caused extremely rare computation errors when performing certain types of mathematical calculations, eventually caused Intel to replace any Pentium processor affected by the flaw, regardless of whether the user was a mathmetician or not. Intel took a $475 million charge against earnings for the quarter to cover the expense of replacing all of those chips. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1996 | | Swedish Treskilling 2¢ yellow used stamp of 1855 sold for record $2.25 million in Zurich. | Ref: 10 |
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| 994 | * | Muhammad ibn Hazm historian/jurist/writer of Islamic Spain, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1598 | * | Francisco de Zurbaran Spain, Baroque painter (baptized), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1828 | * | Birth of American biblical lexicographer Joseph Henry Thayer. A Congregationalist pastor, Thayer's main interest was New Testament language and in 1886 he published his definitive "Greek_English Lexicon of the New Testament." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1832 | * | Andrew Dickson White educator/1st President of Cornell, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1847 | * | Birth of Will L. Thompson, American songwriter. With a major interest in sacred music, Thompson's pen has left the Church two enduring hymns: "Jesus is All the World to Me" and "Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1856 | * | Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin Vilna, tied for chess first place (1878), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1867 | * | Madame Marie Curie (Marja Sklodowski) Nobel Prize-winning physicist [1903, 1911]: study of radiation; chemist: discovered radium and polonium; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1876 | * | Culbert Olson Fillmore UT, (Gov-D-Cal), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1878 | * | Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1883 | * | Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux Newport News VA, TV preacher, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | * | Eleanor Medill Patterson, American publisher, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1888 | * | Sir Chandrasekhara Raman India, physicist (Nobel 1930), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1897 | * | Herman Mankiewicz, American screenwriter, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1900 | * | Efrem Kurtz St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symphony 1948-54), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Ed (Edward Benton) Dodd cartoonist: Mark Trail; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | * | Jesus Maria Sanrom, Carolina PR, pianist (Boston Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | (Ira) Dean Jagger, Academy Award-winning actor: Twelve O’clock High [1949]; Elmer Gantry, Bad Day at Black Rock, White Christmas, King Creole, The Robe, Vanishing Point, Mr. Novak; is born in Lima Ohio. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1903 | * | Konrad Lorenz zoologist/ethologist/writer (Nobel 1973), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Albert Camus Nobel Prize-winning writer [The Just-1957]; Le Mythe de Sisyphe; is born in Algeria. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1914 | * | -Archie Campbell CMA Comedian of the Year [1969], country singer, comedian: Trouble in the Amen Corner, Beeping Sleauty, Rindercella, The Men in My Little Girl’s Life; Hee Haw, Grand Ole Opry; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1916 | * | Joe Bushkin NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | Billy Graham Charlotte NC, evangelist (Crusades), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Al Hirt New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Joan Sutherland Sydney Australia, operatic soprano (Met Opera), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Norton David Zinder, biologist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1929 | * | Benny Andersen, Danish writer, poet and jazz musician, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1930 | * | Rudy Boschwitz (Sen-R-MN), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Gwyneth Jones, Pontnewyndd Wales, soprano (Die Walkyre), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | Barry Newman Boston MA, actor (Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Barry Newman actor: Petrocelli, Nightingales, The Edge of Night, Vanishing Point, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Jim (James Lee) Kaat baseball: pitcher: Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins [all-star: 1962, 1966/World Series: 1965], Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1975], Philadelphia Phillies, NY Yankees, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1982]; sportscaster: ABC Sports, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Dee (Delectus) Clark singer: Just Keep It Up, Raindrops, Ride a Wild Horse; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Johnny Rivers (John Ramistella) singer: Poor Side of Town, Memphis, Secret Agent Man, Slow Dancin’, Baby I Need Your Lovin’, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson), songwriter: Willy, Big Yellow Taxi, Woodstock; singer: Help Me, Free Man in Paris, Both Sides Now, is born in Alberta, Canada | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | * | Judith Frost British Columbia, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Joe Niekro baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, SD Padres, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros [all-star: 1979], NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins [World Series: 1987], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Tommy Hart football: San Francisco 49ers DE, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Jim Watkins Philadelphia PA, actor (Jerry-Magician), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Judy Tenuda comedienne (Spotlight Cafe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Alexa Canady, first female African-American neurosurgeon, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1951 | * | Nick Guilder singer (Hot Child in the City), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Christopher Knight actor: The Brady Bunch, Another World, A Very Brady Christmas, Good Girls Don’t, The Brady Bunch Movie, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Dr Jonathan Palmer formula-1 racer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Kathy McMillan long jumper (1976 Olympics silver), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Mintcho Pachov Bulgaria, 67.5kg weightlifter (Olympic-bronze-1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Todd McKee actor (Ted-Santa Barbara, Bold & Beautiful), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Dana Plato Maywood CA, actress (Kimberly-Diff'rent Strokes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Liam O'Maonlai rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Bianca Trump (Wendy Smith) actress: X-rated films, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1972 | * | Jason London actor: The Man in the Moon, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Mixed Signals, Broken Vessels, Alien Cargo; twin brother of Jeremy London, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1972 | * | Jeremy London actor: I’ll Fly Away, Party of Five, White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild, Breaking Free, The Babysitter, The Red Lion, Bad to the Bone; twin brother of Jason London, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1972 | * | Christopher Daniel Barnes actor (Ross-Day by Day, As World Turns), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Clive B. Barnes Portland Me, actor (Scott Hayden-Starman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1573 | * | Solomon Luria (Maharshal) talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1619 | * | Elizabeth, daughter of James I, crowned Queen of Bohemia. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1783 | * | Last public hanging at Tyburn near Marble Arch, London; public executions moved to Newgate. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1837 | * | American Presbyterian abolitionist and newspaper editor Elijah P. Lovejoy, 35, is murdered. Forced earlier to move his business from St. Louis to Alton, IL, Lovejoy was shot during the night by an anti_abolitionist mob while defending his presses. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Alfred Russel Wallace, British zoologist/co-discoverer (evolution), dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1924 | | Wolf Mankowitz | Ref: 10 |
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| 1928 | | Norm Chomsky | Ref: 10 |
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| 1937 | | Mary Travers | Ref: 10 |
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| 1959 | | Victor McLaglen | Ref: 10 |
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| 1962 | * | Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and fifth cousin of President Franklin Roosevelt and neice of President Theodore Roosevelt, dies at 78 in NYC. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1967 | * | John Nance Garner "Cactus Jack", Texas, (D) 32nd VP (1933-41, under FDR), dies at age 98. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1967 | * | Democrat Carl Burton Stokes elected first Black mayor of major American city in Cleveland, OH. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1976 | * | Roy Williams (Roy, the big mooseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club") dies. Ref | |
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| 1978 | * | Gene Tunney former heavyweight boxing champ, dies at age 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Janet Flanner, American writer and Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1980 | * | (Terence Steven) Steve McQueen actor: The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Papillon, Towering Inferno, The Sand Pebbles, Love with the Proper Stranger, Hell is for Heroes, Bullitt, The Hunter, Le Mans; dies in Juarez, Mexico at age 50. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1981 | * | Will Durant author, historian: The Story of Philosophy, The Story of Civilization [w/wife Ariel]; dies at age 96. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | * | George Matthews actor, dies at 73 of heart disease | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Lawrence Durrell, British writer, dies at age 78. (TWA, 1992) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1992 | * | Alexander Dubcek, headed Czech Communist Party (1968-69), dies at age 70. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1992 | * | Jack Kelly actor: Maverick, Dr. Hudson’s Secret Journal, Get Christie Love, To Hell and Back; host: NBC Comedy Theater; mayor: Huntington Beach, California; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1994 | * | Shorty Rogers (Milton Rajonsky) musician: trumpet, bandleader, songwriter: Keen and Peachy, Martians Go Home, Sweetheart of Sigmund Freud; composer, arranger: film: That Certain Girl; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2002 | * | Peg Phillips actress: Northern Exposure; dies. | Ref: 5 |
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