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Historical Events

1943 – Meat (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI’s), butter and cheese rationed in US during WW II
1961 – After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted of treason in Pretoria
1971 – 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
1975 – Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
1992 – Ice Pairs Championship in Oakland, California won by Mishuktienok and Dmitriev (CIS)
1996 – 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men win

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Famous Birthdays

1869 – Aleš Hrdlička, Austro-Hungarian anthropologist and curator (US National Museum), born in Humpolec, Austria-Hungary (d. 1943)
1927 – Arthur Ravenel Jr, American businessman and politician (Rep-R-South Carolina), born in Charleston, South Carolina
1927 – John R. Vane, English pharmacologist (Nobel 1982), born in Tardebigg, Worcestershire (d. 2004)
1938 – Bert de Vries, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (CDA), born in Groningen, Netherlands
1946 – Billy Thorpe, British-Australian musician (Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs – “I Told The Brook”, “Mashed Potato”; solo – “Children of the Sun”), born in Manchester, England (d. 2007)
1974 – Marc Gené, Spanish auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 2009), born in Sabadell, Spain

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Famous Deaths

1058 – Stephen IX [Frederik van Lotharingen], 1st Belgium Pope (1057-58), dies
1578 – Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
1953 – Arthur Fields [Abraham Finkelstein], American singer-songwriter (Aba Daba Honeymoon), dies in a fire at his nursing home residence at 68
1970 – Lev Kuleshov, Russian filmmaker and film theorist (Po Zakonu, founder of Moscow film school), dies at 71
1980 – Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 74
2001 – Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)

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Historical Events

364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor
1834 – Senate censure President Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
1953 – “Stock exchanges open, dikes closed” raises 5,200,000 guilders
1953 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1962 – Devastating 8 for 6 spell by West Indian spin bowler Lance Gibbs gives home side innings and 30 run 3rd Test win over India in Bridgetown
1972 – Elvis Presley records his final Top Ten hit, a cover of “Burning Love”, written by Dennis Linde, and first recorded by Arthur Alexander

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Famous Birthdays

1905 – Marlin Perkins, American TV host (Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom), born in Carthage, Missouri (d. 1986)
1911 – Myfanwy Piper, British librettist and art critic, born in London (d. 1997)
1930 – Robert Ashley, American composer, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 2014)
1931 – Anatoly Lein, Soviet-American chess player (Grandmaster 1968; World Chess Hall of Fame), born in Leningrad, Russia (d. 2018)
1945 – Johnny Famechon, Australian boxer (WBC featherweight champion 1969-70), born in Paris, France (d. 2022)
1988 – Lacey Turner, British soap actress

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Famous Deaths

1893 – Edmund Kirby Smith, American military officer (Confederate Army General), dies at 68
1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian-American piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer (Aleko; Piano Concerto No. 3), dies at 69
1974 – Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82
1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1994 – Albert Goldman, American rock biographer (Lives of John Lennon; Elvis), dies at 66
2003 – (Farrell) “Rusty” Draper, American country and pop singer (“The Shifting, Whispering Sands”; “Are You Satisfied?”), dies of pneumonia at 80

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Historical Events

1841 – 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC
1930 – 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
1941 – Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
1957 – 29th Academy Awards: “Around World in 80 Days”, Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner win
1982 – Randy Holt sets Wash Cap record of 34 penalty minutes
2021 – 114 people including children killed in one day by armed forces in Myanmar, with more than 420 killed since protests began against the military coup

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Famous Birthdays

1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist who discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901), born in Lennep, Rhine Province (d. 1923)
1921 – Harold Nicholas, American dancer known as one of the world’s greatest dancers (Nicholas Brothers), born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (d. 2000)
1939 – Maurice Petty, American auto racing crew chief, engine builder and team owner (Petty Enterprises, International Motorsports and NASCAR Hall of Fame), born in Level Cross, North Carolina (d. 2020)
1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress (Lost), born in Los Angeles, California
1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer, born in Paramaribo, Suriname
1984 – Bonnie Milligan, American theater actress and singer (Kimberley Akimbo), born in Decatur, Illinois

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Famous Deaths

1714 – Anton Ulrich, German Duke of Brunswick and poet, dies at 80
1916 – Susan Blow, American educator who pioneered kindergarten education and was known as the “Mother of the Kindergarten”, dies at 72
1982 – Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect (Sears Tower, Chicago; John Hancock Center, Chicago; Metrodome, Minneapolis), dies of a heart attack at 52
1993 – Kate Reid, British actress (The Andromeda Strain, Heaven Help US), dies of cancer at 62
2003 – Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)
2023 – Jocelyn Morlock, Canadian contemporary and post-modern classical composer (My Name is Amanda Todd; Bird in the Tangled Sky), and music educator, dies at 53

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Historical Events

1958 – The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris
1973 – 35th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76; Bruins’ 7th straight title; future Hall of Fame center Bill Walton tournament MOP for 2nd consecutive year
1983 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1995 – “Moliere Comedies” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 performances
2014 – Laureus World Sports Awards, Istana Budaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Sportsman: Sebastian Vettel; Sportswoman: Genzebe Dibaba; Team: Germany Men’s National Football team
2017 – Mass protests in Chile over country’s privatised pension system

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Famous Birthdays

1773 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician, astronomer and author (Marine Sextant), born in Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1838)
1931 – Charles Stepney, American pianist, arranger, and record producer (Chess Records; Minnie Riperton; Ramsey Lewis; Earth, Wind and Fire), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1976)
1941 – Barclay Plager, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (NHL All-Star 1970, 71, 73, 74 St. Louis Blues) and coach (St. Louis Blues 1977-83), born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario (d. 1988)
1959 – Chris Hansen, American reporter and correspondent (Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator, 2004-07), born in Chicago, Illinois
1970 – Martin McDonagh, Irish playwright and filmmaker (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths), born in London, England
1985 – Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricket spin bowler and captain who played 4 Tests and 161 ODIs; Midlands, Manicaland, Mashonaland, born in Harare, Zimbabwe

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Famous Deaths

1517 – Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer, dies at about 67 [birth date uncertain, c. 1450]
1772 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer and historian, dies at 68
1923 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth), dies of uremia at 78
1973 – Safford Cape, American-Belgian conductor, composer and music historian, dies at 67
2004 – Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean), dies after a stroke at 62
2015 – John Renbourn, British jazz and folk guitarist and songwriter (Pentangle), dies of a heart attack at 70

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