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Historical Events

1813 – The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).
1819 – 1st ship sails through the Erie Canal from Rome, New York to Utica, New York
1886 – “World Championship” Baseball Series, Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis: St.L Browns edge Chicago White Stockings, 4-3 in 10 innings in Game 6 to take series, 4-2
1973 – Yankee GM and President Lee MacPhail named AL president
1989 – Browns’ Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
1996 – New York Yankees set record recovering from 0-6 in Baseball World Series game to beat Braves, 8-6 in Game 4 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium; record 7th straight post-season road win

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Famous Birthdays

1805 – Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author and painter (Nachsommer), born in Oberplan, Bohemia (d. 1868)
1869 – Jacobus H “Koos” Speenhoff, Dutch cabaret singer, born in Kralingen, Holland (d. 1945)
1876 – Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
1936 – Barry Sinclair, New Zealand cricket batsman and captain (21 Tests, 3 x 100s; Wellington CA), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 2022)
1965 – Al Leiter, American pitcher (Florida Marlins, NY Mets), born in Toms River, New Jersey
1987 – Seo In-Guk, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor (The Master’s Sun), born in Ulsan, South Korea

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Famous Deaths

1890 – Charles Verlat, Flemish painter, dies at 65
1899 – Penn Symons, British Major General during Second Boer War, dies in battle during the Battle Of Talana Hill at 56
1978 – Maybelle Carter, American country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
2001 – Ronald William Kirby, British artist, dies at 72
2003 – Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician. dies of an aneurysm at 59
2009 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor and comedian (Irma la Douce, The Dean Martin Show), dies at 95

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Historical Events

1926 – Boxer J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in in his dressing room at the Princess Theater in Montreal. The attack started, contributed, or covered-up the appendicitis that would take Houdini’s life 9 days later.
1930 – Blake and Razaf’s “Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1930” premieres in NYC
1935 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Twin Hills CC: Johnny Revolta wins his only major title, defeating Tommy Armour, 5 and 4
2012 – MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3
2018 – Cameroon’s President Paul Biya wins seventh term in office, extending his 36 years in office, in election marred by intimidation and low turnout
2020 – Goldman Sachs agrees to pay record $3 billion to end probe into its role in 1MDB corruption scandal to regulators in the US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia

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Famous Birthdays

1809 – Federico Ricci, Italian composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples (now Italy) (d. 1877)
1935 – Judy Devlin Hashman, Canadian badminton player (World Team C’ship gold US 1957, 60, 63, 66), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
1938 – Christopher Lloyd, American Emmy Award-winning actor (Taxi – “Reverend Jim”; Back to the Future films), born in Stamford, Connecticut
1959 – Todd Graff, American actor (Five Corners, Dominic and Eugene), born in NYC, New York
1960 – Cris Kirkwood, American cow-punk bassist, singer, and songwriter (Meat Puppets – “Backwater”), born in Phoenix, Arizona
1975 – Míchel Salgado, Spanish soccer defender (53 caps; Celta Vigo, Real Madrid 251 games, Blackburn Rovers), born in As Neves, Spain

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Famous Deaths

1725 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian baroque composer (Tigrane), dies at 65
1989 – Ewan MacColl [James Miller], Scottish folk singer-songwriter (“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”), dies at 74
1990 – Frank Sinkwich, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1942, U of Georgia; NFL Draft #1 pick Detroit Lions 1943; NFL MVP 1944), dies at 70
1995 – Mary Wickes [Wickenhauser], American character actress (Father Dowling Mysteries; Sister Act; Dennis The Menace), dies of surgery complications at 79
2004 – Alastair Down, CEO (Burmah Oil), dies at 90
2021 – Jay Black [David Blatt], American pop singer (Jay and the Americans – “Come A Little Bit Closer”; “This Magic Moment”), dies of pneumonia and complications from dementia at 82

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Historical Events

1096 – Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats The People’s Crusade at the Battle of Civetot, only about 3,000 out of 20,000 Crusaders survive
1854 – Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1975 – Mexico City’s 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives
2004 – MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat Houston Astros, 4 games to 3
2020 – Parents of 545 children cannot be found that were separated at the US-Mexico border according to American Civil Liberties Union

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Famous Birthdays

1803 – George Wright, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Norwich, Vermont (d. 1865)
1847 – Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian playwright, poet, and librettist (Puccini’s “La bohème”, “Tosca”, and “Madama Butterfly”), born in Colleretto Parella, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy) (d. 1906)
1928 – Ardico Magnini, Italian soccer defender (20 caps; Fiorentina 225 games), born in Pistoia, Italy (d. 2020)
1940 – Manfred Mann [Michael Lubowitz], British, rocker (“Mighty Quinn”; “Blinded By The Light”), born in Johannesburg, Transvaal, Union of South Africa
1945 – Everett McGill, actor (Jezebel’s Kiss, Silver Bullet), born in Miami, Florida
1949 – Masao Ohba, Japanese boxer (WBA flyweight champion), born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1973)

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Famous Deaths

1500 – Go-Tsuchimikado, 103rd Emperor of Japan, dies at 58
1777 – Samuel Foote, British actor, dramatist and theatre manager (Mirror), dies at 57
1977 – Ferit Tüzün, Turkish composer (Esintiler – Inspirations; The Ears of Midas), and conductor (Turkish State Opera and Ballet Orchestra, 1959-77), dies at 48
1995 – Linda Goodman, American astrologer and poet, dies from complications of diabetes at 70
2003 – Fred Berry, African-American actor (Rerun-What’s Happening), dies at 52
2007 – Ronald B. Kitaj, American-British painter and graphic artist (pop art), dies at 74

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Historical Events

1906 – Dr Lee DeForest demonstrates his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)
1940 – Cheese rationed in the Netherlands
1968 – Margitta Gummel of East Germany throws world record 19.61m to beat teammate Marita Lange by 0.83m and win the women’s shot put gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
2013 – 37 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
2013 – 78 people are killed by cattle raiders in Jonglei, Sudan
2018 – 12,000 year old fossil called “Luzia”, oldest known fossil in South America announced found mostly intact after devastating fire at Brazil’s National Museum

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Famous Birthdays

1616 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
1884 – Thomas Chalmers, American opera singer, actor, and filmmaker (Blind Alleys, Outrage), born in NYC, New York (d. 1966)
1923 – Herschel Bernardi, American actor (Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, Front), born in NYC, New York (d. 1986)
1961 – Ian Rush, Welsh footballer (Liverpool), born in St Asaph, Wales
1966 – Fred Coury, American glam rock drummer (Cinderella -“Heartbreak Station”; “Nobody’s Fool”), born in Johnston, New York
1967 – Harvey Pulliam, American MLB outfielder (Colorado Rockies), born in San Francisco, California

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Famous Deaths

1906 – William “Buck” Ewing, American Baseball HOF catcher (NL home run leader 1883 NY Giants; Cincinnati Reds) and manager (NY Giants, Cincinnati Reds), dies of diabetes at 67
1994 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Soviet director and actor (Destiny of a Man, War and Peace), dies of a heart attack at 74
1997 – Henry Vestine, American guitarist (Canned Heat), dies of heart and respiratory failure at 52
2003 – Jack Elam, American actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo), dies at 82
2006 – Frank Vicari, American jazz, session, and touring saxophonist (Maynard Ferguson; Woody Herman; Tom Waits; Saturday Night Live), dies at 75
2010 – Bob Guccione, American publisher (Penthouse, Omni), dies of lung cancer at 79

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