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Historical Events

1943 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1953 – 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1973 – Cleveland sets day-game and opening-game attendance records of 74,420
1980 – US President Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1981 – “Street Songs” 5th studio album by Rick James is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1981)
2022 – MLB Cleveland Guardians lose in first game under their new name, 3-1 to the Royals in Kansas City

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Famous Birthdays

1910 – Obdulio Morales, Cuban pianist, conductor, composer, ethnomusicologist, and Afro-Cuban bandleader, born in Havana, Cuba (d. 1981)
1920 – Gino Marinuzzi, Jr., Italian-American conductor, symphonic and film score composer (Le Carrosse d’or), and electronic music pioneer (Fonosynth), born in New York City (d. 1996)
1933 – Wayne Rogers, American actor (M*A*S*H, 1972-75 – “Capt. ‘Trapper’ John McIntyre”; House Calls), born in Birmingham Alabama (d. 2015)
1938 – Jerry Brown, American politician and Governor of California (Democrat: 1975-83, 2011-19), born in San Francisco, California
1973 – Carole Montillet, French skier
1975 – John Cooper, American christian rock musician (Skillet), born in Memphis, Tennessee

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Famous Deaths

1668 – William Davenant, English poet (b. 1606)
1947 – Henry Ford, American industrialist and auto maker (Ford Model T), dies at 83
1983 – Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82
2003 – Jutta Hipp, German-American jazz pianist and composer, dies at 78
2014 – Peaches Geldof, English columnist and daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, dies of a heroin overdose at 25
2021 – Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league halfback (20 Tests; Rothmans Medal 1972; Wests, Newtown) and coach (Wests, NSW), dies from cancer at 70

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Historical Events

1886 – Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga
1903 – In Holland, railroad and dock workers go out on strike, but the government passes anti-strike bills, calls out troops, and promptly ends the strike on the 13th April
1945 – World War II: Dutch city of Coevorden freed from German occupation by Canadian forces
1945 – Battle of Okinawa: Giant Japanese battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa with orders to beach herself and be destroyed defending the island
1986 – CBS’ fact based “Nobody’s Child”, story of Marie Balter
2013 – Bayern Munich win their 23rd German Bundesliga title with 6 games to spare

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Famous Birthdays

1935 – James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose, Southern Rhodesia-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland
1943 – Harry Conroy, trade unionist
1944 – John Stax [Fullagar], British rock bassist, and harmonica player (Pretty Things, 1963-67 – “Don’t Bring Me Down”; “Cry To Me”), born in Crayford, Kent, England
1959 – Dianne Brill, Tampa, fashion designer/party girl (Queen of the Night)
1961 – Rory Bremner, impressionist
1979 – Frederick MGDL Windsor, son of English prince Michael

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Famous Deaths

1817 – Bonaventura Furlanetto, Italian composer, dies at 78
1983 – Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered
1990 – Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dressed woman), dies at 73
2001 – Charles Pettigrew, American soul singer (Charles and Eddie – “Would I Lie To You?”), dies of cancer at 37
2011 – Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani Sindhi scholar (compiled first Sindhi-English dictionary), dies at 93
2018 – Daniel Akaka, American educator and politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii), dies at 93

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Historical Events

1609 – Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa
1847 – Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, opens in Birkenhead, England, designed by Joseph Paxton
1908 – British Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
1941 – San Francisco Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
1976 – Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1991 – Detroit Pistons Joe Dumaars ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games

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Famous Birthdays

1472 – Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, born in Pavia, Italy (d. 1510)
1698 – Georg Gottfried Wagner, German composer, born in Mühlberg, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1756)
1899 – William Hornby Steer, Conservative Party politician and barrister (d. 1993)
1908 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian independence activist and politician, born in Chandwa, Bhojpur, Bihar, British India (d. 1986)
1937 – Stuart May, senior partner (Theodore Goddard)
1944 – Peter T. King, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York, born in Manhattan, New York

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Famous Deaths

1717 – Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
1943 – Aleš Hrdlička, Austro-Hungarian anthropologist and curator (US National Museum), dies at 74
1973 – John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)
1994 – Kurt Cobain, American grunge rocker (Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”), commits suicide at 27 by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun
2005 – Dale Messick [Dalia Messick], American comic strip artist (Brenda Starr, Reporter), dies at 98
2012 – Ferdinand A. Porsche, German car designer (Porsche 911), dies at 76

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Historical Events

1828 – Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder in Amsterdam
1862 – Siege of Yorktown, fought in York County and Newport News, Virginia begins (Yorktown campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
1913 – 75th Grand National: Percy Woodland wins aboard 100/9 chance Covertcoat; owner Sir Charles Assheton-Smith’s 2nd straight GN victory and 3rd overall
1939 – Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
1971 – Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies” opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 524 performances, then most expensive Broadway musical at the time
2013 – 9 people have been killed on an axe-murdering rampage in Chhattisgarh state, India

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Famous Birthdays

1716 – Johann Evangelist Schreiber, Swiss Baroque composer, born in Arth, Switzerland (d. 1800)
1772 – Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of Breslov Hasidut, born in Międzybóż, Kingdom of Poland (d. 1810)
1870 – George Albert Smith, American religious leader, 8th President of Latter-day Saints, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1951)
1919 – Antony Tudor, English dancer and choreographer (Metropolitan Opera 1957), born in London (d. 1987)
1957 – Paul Downton, English cricketer (England wicket-keeper in 80’s), born in Farnborough, London
1988 – Frank Fielding, English football goalkeeper, born in Blackburn, Lancashire

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Famous Deaths

1643 – Simon Episcopius [Bisschop], Dutch theologist, dies at 60
1661 – Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (b. circa 1580)
1662 – Davis Mell, British violinist, composer, and clockmaker, dies at 57
1693 – Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, Portuguese-Jewish rabbi, scholar and religious writer prominent in Amsterdam and in Dutch Brazil, dies at 88
1905 – Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter and sculptor, dies at 73
1988 – Ludwig Stiel, German pianist, composer, and conductor, dies at 86

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