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Historical Events

1903 – Stanley Cup, Dey’s Arena, Ottawa, Ontario: Ottawa HC beats Rat Portage Thisles, 4-2 for a 2-0 challenge series sweep
1922 – WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions
1941 – Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1960 – 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield, California
1986 – European Space Agency’s Giotto flies by Halley’s Comet (605 km)
2016 – President Putin orders Russian troops out of Syria

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Famous Birthdays

1815 – Josephine Lang, German composer, born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1880)
1853 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter, born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1918)
1869 – Algernon Blackwood, English novelist (The Willows), born in Shooter’s Hill, Kent, England (d. 1951)
1961 – Greg Anderson, American NHRA stock car driver, born in Duluth, Minnesota
1963 – Pedro Duque, Spanish engineer and astronaut (STS 78 alt, sk:95, first Spanish person in space), born in Madrid, Spain
1984 – Antoni Porowski, Canadian chef and TV personality (Queer Eye), born in Montreal, Quebec

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Famous Deaths

840 – Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69
1902 – Daniel H. Reynolds, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 69
1976 – Martha Saalfeldt German writer and poet, dies at 78
1994 – Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska, Polish pianist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 82
1995 – William Fowler, American nuclear scientist and astrophysicist (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1983), dies at 83
2015 – Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (To Live and Remember), dies at 77

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Historical Events

1942 – Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
1949 – US Men’s Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1963 – Indonesia and Netherlands reinstate diplomatic relations
1968 – Beatles release single “Lady Madonna” in the UK
1974 – Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ’s 1st win against Aust
1985 – Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko in Moscow

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Famous Birthdays

1700 – James Kent, English composer, born in Winchester (d. 1776)
1768 – Charles Louis Willem Josef van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant, born in Haelen, Netherlands (d. 1841)
1901 – Paul Fix, American actor (Rifleman), born in Dobbs Ferry, New York (d. 1983)
1941 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer, born in al-Birwa, Galilee (d. 2008)
1946 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier who died leading rescue operation Entebbe in Uganda, born in NYC, New York (d. 1976)
1985 – Austin Scott, American football player, born in Allentown, Pennsylvania

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Famous Deaths

1569 – Louis, Prince of Condé (1530-69), dies in Battle of Jarnac at 39
1941 – E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1967 – Sir Frank Worrell, West Indian cricket batsman and captain (51 Tests @ 49.48; 9 x 100s), dies from leukemia at 42
1992 – Clarence Wright, English actor and singer, dies at 84
1999 – Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (The Phantom), dies at 87
2010 – He Pingping, Chinese world’s shortest man who was able to walk at 74 cm (2 ft 5 in), dies at 21

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Historical Events

1881 – Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world’s first black international football player and captain
1894 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi
1977 – Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bans the Christian-Democratic Party
1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations
2003 – Elizabeth Smart found after having been missing for 9 months.
2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.

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Famous Birthdays

1637 – Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (d. 1671)
1826 – Robert Lowry, American hymn composer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1899)
1832 – Charles Boycott, Irish estate manager (whose workers refused to work for him amid Irish rent and land issues, origin of the term “boycott”), born in Burgh St. Peter, England (d. 1897)
1863 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (d. 1945)
1936 – Eddie Sutton, Basketball Hall of Fame coach (Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State; first coach to take 4 schools to NCAA tournament), born in Bucklin, Kansas (d. 2020)
1963 – Ricky Yacobi, Indonesian soccer striker (31 caps; Arseto Solo, Matsushita), born in Medan, Indonesia (d. 2020)

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Famous Deaths

1832 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German-Danish opera composer, dies at 45
1949 – Maria “Beppie” Bakker, Dutch actress abd wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95
1996 – Charles Bruce Perry, Professor of Medicine (Bristol University), dies at 92
2008 – Lazare Ponticelli, the last “poilu”, French foot soldier of World War One, dies at 110 (b. 1897)
2017 – Luigi Barbarito, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 94
2018 – Craig Mack, American rapper (Flava In Ya Ear), dies of heart failure at 47

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Historical Events

928 – Trpimir II succeeds to the Croatian throne.
1964 – 21st Golden Globes: The Cardinal, Sidney Poitier, and Leslie Caron win
1974 – Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce’s Album
1980 – Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Aust v Pak cricket draw
2013 – European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals
2020 – Smallest dinosaur ever discovered – skull preserved in piece of amber smaller than a fingertip from a mine in Myanmar, reported in “Nature”

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Famous Birthdays

1811 – Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, French astronomer (made calculations that proved existence of Neptune), born in Saint-Lô, France (d. 1877)
1812 – James Speed, Atty Gen (Union), (d. 1887)
1884 – Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer and actor (Village by the River, Beautiful Juliet), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1982)
1923 – Terence Alexander, English actor (Bergerac), born in London, England (d. 2009)
1937 – Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and a grandmaster of chess problem composition, born in Belgrade, Serbia (d. 2003)
1961 – Bruce Watson, Canadian-Scottish rock guitarist, sitar and mandolin player (Big Country – “Wonderland”; “In A Big Country”), born in Timmons, Ontario

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Famous Deaths

1854 – Willard Richards, American physician and religious leader, dies at 49
1907 – Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered
1977 – Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
1983 – Lurlean Hunter, American jazz singer, dies at 63
1994 – Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69
2010 – Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1931)

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