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Historical Events

1119 – Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II
1869 – James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 – Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs and William Harridge selected for Baseball Hall of Fame
1973 – Richard Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA; succeeded by James R Schlesinger (until July)
1992 – IRS and Willie Nelson settle on $9M tax bill (of $16.7M)

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Famous Birthdays

1522 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565)
1926 – Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, 1st Cent American cardinal (Nicaragua)
1968 – Sean Elliott, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1970 – Roar Strand, Norwegian footballer
1975 – Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
1983 – Alex Westaway, British rock singer (Gunship; Fightstar), born in Northamptonshire, England

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Famous Deaths

1688 – Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)
1970 – Jaroslav Vogel, Czech composer and conductor, dies at 76
1980 – William H. Stein, American biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies at 68
1981 – Louise Lorraine, actress (Adventures of Tarzan), dies
1988 – Clive Epstein, British music artist manager, and brother of Brian Epstein, dies at 51
2005 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (world heavyweight champion 1930-32), dies at 99

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Historical Events

1862 – Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Sumner meet with President Abraham Lincoln at The White House, Washington
1937 – Stapleton, Staten Island, becomes a customs-free port
1948 – Important South African anti-apartheid novel “Cry the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton is published in the US
1975 – “Men on the Moon” closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
2009 – Australian Open Men’s Tennis: Spanish ace Rafael Nadal wins his first Australian title; beats Roger Federer 7-5, 3-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-2
2013 – 26 people are killed after a fireworks truck explodes and causes a highway to collapse in Henan, China

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Famous Birthdays

1635 – Marquard Gude, German archaeologist and classical scholar famous for his collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions, born in Rendsburg, Holstein (d. 1689)
1801 – Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Swedish lieder and classical composer, born in Skänninge, Sweden (d. 1878)
1920 – Kenneth Bond, former vice-chairman
1955 – Virginia Leng, British equestrian rider (World C’ship individual 1986; Olympic silver x 2, bronze x 2 1984, 88), born in Malta
1971 – Michael C. Hall, American actor (Dexter, Six Feet Under), born in Raleigh, North Carolina
1984 – Lee Thompson Young, American actor, born in Columbia, South Carolina (d. 2013)

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Famous Deaths

1981 – Nils Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer, dies at 72
1986 – Dick James [Leon Vapnick], British dance band vocalist and Beatles’ music publisher (Northern Songs), dies of a heart attack at 65
1992 – Irving Kaufman, American federal judge (Rosenberg Case), dies at 81
2003 – Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut (STS 87) and the first woman of Indian descent to go to space, dies in Space Shuttle Columbia disaster at 40
2003 – Michael P. Anderson, American astronaut and member of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), dies at 43
2007 – Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader, dies at 60

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Historical Events

1679 – Jean-Baptiste Lully’s opera “Bellerophon” premieres at the Palais-Royal in Paris
1982 – NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 16-13; MVPs: Co-MVPs: Kellen Winslow, San Diego Chargers, TE; Lee Roy Selmon, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, DE
1988 – Super Bowl XXII, Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, CA: Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10; MVP: Doug Williams, Washington, QB
1990 – Jushin “Thunder” Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ
2012 – Leonard Cohen releases his album “Old Ideas”, becomes No.1 in 10 countries
2013 – 36 people are killed and 126 are injured in an explosion at Torre Ejecutiva Pemex, Mexico

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Famous Birthdays

1902 – Julian Steward, American anthropologist (cultural ecology), born in Washington D. C. (d. 1972)
1916 – Frank Parker, American tennis player (4-time Grand Slam winner), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1997)
1946 – Subroto Guha, Indian cricketer (right arm swing bowler for India 1967-69), born in India
1960 – Grant Morrison, British comic book author, born in Glasgow, United Kingdom
1971 – Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian, born in Dundrum, United Kingdom
1972 – Reinier Robbemond, Dutch soccer player (Dordrecht ’90), born in Dordrecht, Netherlands

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Famous Deaths

1615 – Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit priest (5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus), dies at 71
1974 – Harry Baum, actor (Crime and Punishment), dies at 58
1976 – Buster Brown, American blues singer and harmonica player (Fannie Mae), dies at 64
1999 – Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler
2004 – Eleanor Holm, American 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic gold 1932), dies at 90
2018 – Anne Gillis [Alma Conner], American actress (Faline-Bambi, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Little Men), dies at 90

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Historical Events

1818 – John Keats composes his sonnet “When I Have Fears”
1933 – Australian Championships Women’s Tennis, Melbourne: Joan Hartigan Bathurst beats Coral McInnes Buttsworth 6-4, 6-3
1956 – Australian Championships Women’s Tennis: Mary Carter Reitano beats fellow Australian Thelma Coyne Long 3-6, 6-2, 9-7 for her 1st Australian singles title
1977 – 8th (final) part of “Roots” is most-watched US entertainment show ever (100 million)
1982 – WBC super welterweight champion Wilfred Benitez of Puerto Rico defeats boxing legend Roberto Durán of Panama in a 15-round unanimous decision at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas
1982 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners

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Famous Birthdays

1911 – Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpet player (Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
1912 – Barbara Tuchman, American historian and author (Pulitzer, Guns of August), born in New York (d. 1989)
1938 – Marlies van Alcmaer [Smal], Dutch actress and director (Bridge too Far)
1944 – Lynn Harrell, American cellist, born in New York City, New York (d. 2020)
1951 – Trevor Laughlin, Australian cricketer (Australian all-rounder 1978-79), born in Nyah West, Australia
1994 – Amelia Dimoldenberg, English comedian and journalist (Chicken Shop Date), born in London, England

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Famous Deaths

1649 – Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1625-49), beheaded for treason by Parliament at 48
1703 – Kiva Yoshinaka, Japanese retainer for the Shogun, murdered in the revenge of the 47 rōnin
1867 – Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
1945 – William Busch, British composer, dies at 43
1956 – Jane Seymour [Marjorie S Fitz-patrick], Canadian-American actress (Tom, Dick and Harry, Young Mr Bobbin), dies at 62
1963 – Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer (Concert champêtre; Les Biches), dies of a heart attack at 64

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