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Historical Events

1966 – Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 and 78
1991 – Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games
2012 – Japan scrambles fighter jets in response to a Chinese plane in the Senkaku Islands dispute
2012 – A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12
2015 – 81st Heisman Trophy Award: Derrick Henry, Alabama (RB)
2018 – US Senate passes non-binding “war powers resolution” against long-term ally Saudi Arabia

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Famous Birthdays

1770 – John Clarke-Whitfeld, English organist and composer, born in Gloucester, England (d. 1836)
1797 – Heinrich Heine, German poet and lyricist (Schubert, Liszt), born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1856)
1835 – Phillips Brooks, American Episcopal bishop and composer (Little Town of Bethlehem), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1893)
1897 – Drew Pearson, American newscaster (Drew Pearson), born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 1969)
1977 – Sascha Kindred, British Paralympic swimmer, born in Münster, Germany
1983 – Matt Deis, American bassist (All That Remains), born in Peterborough, New Hampshire

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Famous Deaths

1126 – Henry IX, the Black, Duke of Bavaria (1120-26), dies
1837 – Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756)
1919 – Amintore Galli, Italian composer, dies at 74
1958 – Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed
1983 – Alexander Schmemann, Orthodox Christian priest and theologian (b. 1921)
1993 – Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87

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Historical Events

1897 – Rudolph Dirks’ 1st “The Katzenjammer Kids” cartoon strip appears in NY Journal
1900 – National Negro Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, composed
1948 – Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre – 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
1963 – Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK
1966 – “A Man for All Seasons” based on the play by Robert Bolt, directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Paul Scofield premieres in New York (Best Picture 1967)
1992 – 58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, U of Miami (QB)

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Famous Birthdays

1902 – Howard Koch, American playwright and screenwriter, born in NYC, New York (d. 1995)
1913 – Hal Dickinson, American singer (Modernaires), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1970)
1931 – Ali-Akbar Sa’idi Sirjani, Iranian writer and journalist, born in Sirjan, Kerman (d. 1994)
1937 – Philip Ledger, British organist, composer, conductor, and academic (King’s College Cambridge), born in Bexhill-on-Sea, England (d. 2012)
1938 – Joel Chadabe, American electronic music composer, born in NYC, New York (d. 2021)
1968 – Chris Walsh, American NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings; sues NFL over head injuries 2011), born in Cleveland, Ohio

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Famous Deaths

1889 – Robert Browning, English poet (Ring and Book), dies at 77
1914 – Watkins Lewis Africa American lynched in Shrevport, Louisiana
1992 – Jasu Patel, Indian cricket spin bowler (7 Tests, 29 wickets, BB 9-69 v Aust 1959; Gujarat), dies at 68
2002 – Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted mass murderer, dies at 37
2019 – Brian Muller, New Zealand rugby union prop (14 caps; Taranaki), dies at 77
2020 – John le Carré [pen name for David Cornwell], English novelist (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), dies at 89

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Historical Events

1730 – Voltaire’s tragedy “Brutus” premieres in Paris
1958 – Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) gains autonomy from France
1968 – Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O’Neill sacks Home Affairs Minister, William Craig
1990 – US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
2007 – Two car bombs go off at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings.
2017 – Attempted suicide terrorist bomb attack in New York wounds 3, bomb fails to fully detonate

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Famous Birthdays

1843 – Robert Koch, German pioneering bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel Prize 1905), born in Clausthal, Hanover (d. 1910)
1912 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (Marriage Italian Style, Doctor Zhivago), born in Magenta, Lombardy (d. 2007)
1948 – Chester Thompson, American session and touring drummer and percussionist (Frank Zappa; Genesis; Chester Thompson Trio), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1954 – Vicki Randle, American singer-songwriter, born in San Francisco, California
1964 – Cosy Sheridan, American singer (The Pomegranate Seed), born in Concord, New Hampshire
1989 – Kellie Harrington, Irish boxer (lightweight Gold Medal 2021 Tokyo Olympics), born in Dublin, Ireland

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Famous Deaths

1610 – False Dmitry 2, Tsar of Russia, murdered
1756 – Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress as the spouse of Emperor Charles VII, dies at 55
1918 – Ivan Cankar, Slovene author, poet, novelist and playwright (Erotika, The Bailiff Yerney and His Rights), dies of pneumonia at 42, a complication of the Spanish flu
2004 – Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach, dies at 87
2007 – Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian child actress (Now and Then), dies of a drug overdose at 26
2014 – Hans Wallat, German opera conductor, dies at 85

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Historical Events

1923 – Polish government of Grabski forms
1926 – 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)
1963 – Leonard Bernstein premieres his Third Symphony “Kaddish” with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, in Tel Aviv, Israel
1986 – Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1993 – “Doom” pioneering first-person shooter video game is uploaded onto the internet by id Software
2013 – Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the growth, sale, and use of marijuana

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Famous Birthdays

1872 – Johann Babtist Thaller, German composer, born in Röhrmoos, Germany (d. 1952)
1891 – Leonie “Nelly” Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright (O the Chimneys – Nobel Prize for Literature 1966), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1970)
1893 – Walter Rein, German composer, born in Stotternheim (d. 1955)
1935 – Terry Allcock, English footballer (Norwich City), born in Leeds, England
1939 – Barry Cunliffe, English archaeologist and university professor, born in Portsmouth, England
1965 – (Joseph) “J” Mascis, American rock singer and guitarist (Dinosaur Jr), born in Amherst, Massachusetts

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Famous Deaths

1736 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663)
1831 – Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (Seebeck effect), dies at 61
1992 – Bernard Reichel, Swiss composer, dies at 91
1994 – Alexander Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
1997 – Jake Carey, American actor (Rock Rock Rock!, Go, Johnny, Go!), dies at 71
2005 – Eugene McCarthy, American politician (Sen-D-Minn) and presidential candidate, dies of parkinsons at 89

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