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Historical Events

1975 – American tennis #1 Chris Evert wins her 3rd WTA Tour Championship at the Los Angeles Sports Arena; beats Martina Navratilova 6-4, 6-2
1990 – NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
1991 – Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida
1992 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Lee Trevino win his second Champions Tour major by 1 stroke from Jack Nicklaus
1996 – John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
2009 – Kraft Nabisco Championship Women’s Golf, Mission Hills CC: Brittany Lincicome eagles the final hole to win her first major title, 1 stroke ahead of fellow American Cristie Kerr

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Famous Birthdays

1882 – Don Blackie, Australian cricket spin bowler (3 Tests, 14 wickets, BB 6/94; Victoria), born in Bendigo, Australia (d. 1955)
1886 – Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1955)
1901 – Alexander Alexeieff, Russian-French painter and graphic artist, born in Kazan, Russia (d. 1982)
1906 – Grady Sutton, American actor (The Bank Dick; The Pruitts of Southhampton), born in Chattanooga, Tennessee (d. 1995)
1917 – Richard Yardumian, American composer (Come Creator Spirit), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1985)
1956 – Diamond Dallas Page, American professional wrestler, born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey

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Famous Deaths

1617 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (Versa est in luctum), dies at 62
1908 – Gaetano Coronaro, Italian conductor, pedagogue, and composer (La Creola), dies at 55
1969 – Shelby Storck, American television producer, dies at 52
1994 – Marlon Riggs, American writer, director and producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37
2005 – Dale Messick [Dalia Messick], American comic strip artist (Brenda Starr, Reporter), dies at 98
2011 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American scientist, (1976 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine, for work on Hepatitis B), dies at 85

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Historical Events

1552 – Maurice, Elector of Saxony begins an alliance with Russian Anikey Stroganov
1833 – St Etienne-Lyons railway fully opens in France
1862 – Peninsular Campaign, launched in southeastern Virginia, aimed at capturing Richmond during US Civil War begins, Confederate victory (US Civil War)
1900 – Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII when shot by Jean-Baptiste Sipido in protest over Boer war
1969 – Haskell Karp receives the 1st temporary artificial heart, implanted by surgeon Denton Cooley at Texas Heart Institute in Houston
1975 – British sitcom “The Good Life” starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith debuts on BBC One

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Famous Birthdays

1740 – Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, German organist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Oehrenstock, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1804)
1945 – Bryan Andrews, New Zealand cricketer (NZ medium-pacer, toured Australia 1973-74), born in Christchurch, New Zealand
1949 – Larry Lingle, American rock guitarist (The Four Seasons, 1979-93), born in Kansas City, Missouri
1952 – Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle racer (10 x GP wins) and touring car racer (Bathurst 1993), born in Brisbane, Australia (d. 1995)
1957 – Kelso, American racehorse, born in Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky (d. 1983)
1963 – David Gavurin, English pop guitarist and songwriter (The Sundays – “Here’s Where the Story Ends”; “Summertime”), born in the UK

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Famous Deaths

1617 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician and inventor (logarithms), dies from effects of gout at 67
1734 – Johann C van Erckel, old Catholic theologist, dies at about 79
1947 – William O’Donnell, Irish politician (Teachta Dála, 1943-47), dies at 71
1951 – Al Christie, Canadian-born pioneering film director and producer (Nestor Film Company), dies at 69
1987 – C. L. Moore, American science fiction and fantasy writer (Judgment Night), dies at 76
1988 – Ludwig Stiel, German pianist, composer, and conductor, dies at 86

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Historical Events

1834 – The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
1860 – Start of the Pony Express, delivers mail by horse and rider relay teams between St Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California
1965 – 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched
1976 – 130th Grand National: John Burke wins aboard Rag Trade; equal record 4th winner trained by Fred Rimell and 2nd winner owned by Pierre Raymond Bessone
2000 – 62nd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Michigan State beats Florida, 89-76; Spartans only top-4 seed to advance to the Final Four
2004 – Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves

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Famous Birthdays

1485 – Lieven van der Maude [Livius Ammonius], South Netherland poet and Carthusian monk, born in Ghent, Habsburg Netherlands (d. 1556)
1918 – Sixten Ehrling, Swedish pianist, conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm, 1953-60; Detroit Symphony, 1963-73), and educator (Juilliard, 1973-87), born in Malmö, Sweden (d. 2005)
1926 – Andrew Keir, Scottish character actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt, Catholics), born in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1997)
1963 – Tsuyoshi Sekito, Japanese video game composer, born in Osaka, Japan
1988 – Peter Hartley, English footballer (Motherwell), born in Hartlepool, England
2003 – Elsie Fisher, American actress (Eighth Grade), born in Riverside, California

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Famous Deaths

1990 – Sarah Vaughan, American jazz and pop singer (“Body and Soul; “Broken Hearted Melody”), often known as “Sassy” and “The Divine One”, dies of lung cancer at 66
1990 – Katharine Balfour, American actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69
2007 – Marion Eames, Welsh novelist, dies at 86
2007 – Eddie Robinson, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Grambling 408 wins), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 88
2015 – Andrew Porter, British organist, opera director, music critic, and librettist, dies at 86
2020 – Tom Dempsey, American NFL kicker (Pro Bowl, First-team All-Pro 1969; New Orleans Saints; longest winning field goal, 63 yards), dies of COVID-19 complications at 73

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Historical Events

1845 – H L Fizeau and Leon Foucault take 1st photo of the Sun
1930 – 1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
1958 – Wind speed reaches a record 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas
1968 – “2001 A Space Odyssey” directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
1995 – North and Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
1995 – Longest strike in American major league sports history (232 days) ends as MLB owners accept players’ offer to return to work without a contract; MLB is first major pro sports league to lose an entire postseason due to labor struggles

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Famous Birthdays

1878 – Émilie Charmy, French avant-garde artist, born in Saint-Etienne, France (d. 1974)
1930 – Girolamo Arriego, Italian composer, born in Palermo, Italy
1947 – Paquita la del Barrio [Francisca Viveros Barradas], Mexican traditional ranchera, bolero, and contemporary singer, born in Alto Lucero, Veracruz, Mexico (d. 2025)
1970 – Tammi Reiss, American actress and former WNBA guard (Utah Starzz), born in New York
1971 – ZEEBRA [Hideyuki Yokoi], Japanese hip hop artist, born in Tokyo, Japan
1975 – Deedee Magno Hall, Filipino-American rocker (Party-Rodeo, That’s Why), born in Portsmouth, Virginia

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Famous Deaths

1932 – Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer (invented bulldogging), dies after being kicked in the head by a bronco at 61
1937 – Nathan Birnbaum, Austrian writer (Gottes Volk;; Der Ruf), and philosopher (early Zionist, later anti-Zionist), dies at 72
1953 – Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56
1973 – Jascha Horenstein, Russian-born American conductor, dies at 74
1994 – Richard Davies, actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of a heart attack at 79
2018 – Susan Anspach, American actress (Grace-Yellow Rose, Hair, Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again Sam), dies at 75

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