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Historical Events

1940 – Admiral Johannes Furstner, Royal Dutch Navy, departs to England
1957 – Bob Merrill’s musical “New Girl in Town” opens at 46th St Theater, NYC; runs for 432 performances
1972 – In Willie Mays’ 1st game as New York Met, his homer beats San Francisco Giants, 5-4 (his former team of over 20 years), at Shea Stadium, New York
1987 – Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
1997 – Baseball’s Executive Council suspends NY Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for his suing other team owners
2020 – Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 300,000 with 4.4 million confirmed infections

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Famous Birthdays

1316 – Charles IV, King of Bohemia (1346-78) and Holy Roman Emperor (1355-78), born in Prague (d. 1378)
1895 – Renato Lunelli, composer Italian organist, composer, and musicologist, born in Trent, Austria-Hungary (now Trento, Italy) (d. 1967)
1899 – Earle Combs, American Baseball HOF center fielder (9 × World Series 1927, 28, 32, 36–39, 41, 43; New York Yankees), born in Richmond, Kentucky (d. 1976)
1928 – Will “Dub” Jones, American bass singer (The Coasters – “Charlie Brown”), born in Shreveport, Louisiana (d. 2000)
1973 – Voshon Lenard, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1997 – Jennifer Kupcho, American golfer (Chevron Championship 2022; Evian Championship 2019 runner-up), born in Littleton, Colorado

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Famous Deaths

649 – Theodore, Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II), dies
1873 – Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
1966 – Megan Lloyd George, English politician (1st female MP for Welsh – Carmarthen), dies at 64
1977 – Robert Maynard Hutchins, American educational philosopher (University of Chicago), dies at 78
1991 – Shintaro Abe, minister of Exterior of Japan (1982-86), dies
2009 – Bob Rosburg, American golfer, broadcaster (PGA Championship 1959), dies of head injuries from a fall at 82

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Historical Events

1638 – Construction of the Red Fort begins at Shahjahanabad, Mughal Empire (now Dehli, India)
1890 – 18th Preakness: W Martin aboard Montague wins in 2:36.75
1917 – 1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal
1966 – The Rolling Stones release “Paint it Black” in the UK
1973 – “Cyrano” opens at Palace Theater NYC for 49 performances
2000 – In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage

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Famous Birthdays

1929 – Creed Taylor, American Grammy Award-winning jazz and bossa nova record producer (Stan Getz; Wes Montgomery), and label founder (Impluse!; CTI Records), born in Lynchburg, Virginia (d. 2022)
1937 – Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist (The Hockey Sweater), born in Sainte-Justine, Quebec
1939 – Hildrun Laufer-Claus, German long jumper, born in Dresden, Germany
1949 – Franklyn Ajaye, American comedian and actor (Car Wash, The Jazz Singer, Bridesmaids), born in Brooklyn, New York
1966 – Alison Goldfrapp, English singer-songwriter (Seventh Tree), born in London
1983 – Timnit Gebru, Eritrean-Ethiopian computer scientist (Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute), born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Famous Deaths

1312 – Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
1951 – Marianne Philips, Dutch author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65
1975 – Vladislav Zolotaryov, Soviet Russian bayanist (button accordion player), and composer (Six Children’s Suites), takes his own life at 53
1984 – Stanislaw Ulam, Polish-American mathematician and nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project, H-bomb), dies at 75
1985 – Leatrice Joy, silent screen star, dies in Riverdale (Bronx) NYC at 91
2009 – Frank Aletter, American character actor (Mac-It’s About Time, Tom-Nancy), dies of lung cancer at 83

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Historical Events

1525 – Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttemberg farmers
1789 – William Wilberforce makes his first major speech on abolition in the UK House of Commons, reasoning the slave trade morally reprehensible and an issue of natural justice
1911 – 1st Inter-Empire Championships open in London
1942 – Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943
1952 – Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur
2008 – Wenchuan earthquake, measuring 7.8 in magnitude occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 87,000, injuring 374,643 and leaving homeless between 4.8 million and 11 million people

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Famous Birthdays

1496 – Gustav I, King of Sweden (1523-60) who abolished Sweden’s elective monarchy, born in Rydboholm Castle, Sweden (d. 1560)
1806 – Amos Beebe Eaton, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Catskill, New York (d. 1877)
1923 – Hector Laing, English biscuit manufacturer (McVitie and Price), pilot and Director of the Bank of England (d. 2010)
1938 – Millie Perkins, American actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting), born in Passaic, New Jersey
1948 – Steve Winwood, English singer, songwriter and musician (Spencer Davis Group – “Gimme Some Lovin'”; Traffic – “Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys”; solo – ‘Higher Love”; “While You See A Chance”), born in Birmingham, England
1966 – Rafael Bournigal, Dominican infielder (Oakland A’s), born in Azua, Dominican Republic

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Famous Deaths

1878 – Catherine Beecher, American educator (championed higher education for women), dies at 77
1909 – Bertha Townsend, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1888-89), dies at 40
1935 – Józef Piłsudski, Father of the Second Polish Republic who served as its Chief of State (1918-22), Marshall of Poland and later its de facto leader (1926-35), dies at 67
1963 – Stanisław Wiechowicz, Polish composer, dies at 69
1998 – Hermann Lenz, German writer (Swabian Chronicles), dies at 75
2001 – Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1925)

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Historical Events

1887 – 13th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Lewis aboard Montrose wins in 2:39.25
1927 – England’s football team beat Belgium 9-1
1956 – Pinky Lee Show last airs on NBC-TV
1975 – Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
2013 – English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London (86,254): Wigan Athletic upsets Manchester City, 1-0; Ben Watson scores 90+1′ winner
2022 – First ever US government report into Indian boarding school deaths released (not complete), documents more than 500 deaths across 400 schools and 50 gravesites over 150 years

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Famous Birthdays

1731 – Johann Gottfried Seyfert, German composer and violinist, born in Augsburg, Electorate of Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1772)
1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
1954 – Lubomir Stoykov, Bulgarian journalist and broadcaster
1967 – Eric Young, infielder (Colorado Rockies), born in New Brunswick, New Jersey
1987 – Louis Murphy, American college football player
1997 – Coi Leray [Collins], American rapper (No More Parties), born in Boston, Massachusetts

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Famous Deaths

1778 – William Pitt the Elder, British Prime Minister (Whig, 1756-61, 66-68) known as the `Great Commoner’, dies at 69
1881 – Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59
1907 – John Albert Delany, Australian composer, dies at 54
1916 – Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect), dies on the Eastern front at 42, mere months after working out a solution to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
2019 – Harold Lederman, American boxing judge and analyst (HBO), dies of cancer at 79
2022 – Henk Groot, Dutch soccer attacking midfielder/forward (39 caps; Ajax, Feyenoord), dies at 84

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