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Historical Events

1905 – US Open Men’s Golf, Myopia Hunt GC: Willie Anderson wins his 3rd consecutive Open title, and his record 4th overall, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Alex Smith
1910 – Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms with an initial 9 team competition
1958 – KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
2002 – Solheim Cup Women’s Golf, Interlachen CC: US regains Cup 15½-12½; Rosie Jones gains winning point in her 3 and 2 victory over Karine Icher
2004 – “Lost” created by J.J. Abrams and starring Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly debuts on ABC in the US

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Famous Birthdays

1864 – Lodewijk van Deyssel, Dutch writer (A Love Affair), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1952)
1870 – Charlotte Cooper, British tennis player (1st female Olympic champion 1900; Wimbledon 1895-96, 98, 1901, 08), born in Ealing, England (d. 1966)
1953 – Richard Fairbrass, English singer and bassist (Right Said Fred), born in Kingston upon Thames, England
1956 – Debby Boone, American singer (You Light Up My Life), born in Hackensack, New Jersey
1961 – Catherine Oxenberg, American actress (Dynasty; Overexposed), born in NYC, New York
1969 – Marian Chlad, Czech soccer player (FC Groningen), born in Teplice, Czechoslovakia

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Famous Deaths

1840 – Anne Lister, English diarist ‘the 1st modern lesbian’, dies of a fever at 49
1956 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 79
1975 – Patricia Doyle, actress (Wuthering Heights), dies at 60
1994 – Leonard Feather, British jazz critic and musician, dies at 80
1997 – Eric William Hunter Christie, barrister, dies at 77
2021 – Orlando Martínez, Cuban boxer (Olympic gold bantamweight 1972), dies at 77

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Historical Events

1921 – A storage silo at a BASF fertiliser producing plant explodes in Oppau, Germany, 500—600 killed
1950 – George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of the United States
1951 – Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec
1970 – “Monday Night Football” created by Roone Arledge, premieres on ABC – Browns 31, Jets 21
1973 – Jackson Pollocks painting “Blue Poles” sold for $2,000,000
1988 – Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville, New Jersey home

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Famous Birthdays

1866 – H. G. Wells, English sci-fi author (War of the Worlds, Kipps), born in Bromley, Kent (d. 1946)
1898 – Tushar Kanti Ghosh, Indian journalist and world’s oldest and longest serving newspaper editor
1941 – Tony Moon, American doo-wop singer, arranger, guitarist (Dante and the Evergreens – “Alley Oop”), producer, and songwriter (“Soldier of Love”), born in Los Angeles, California
1969 – Jason Christiansen, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Omaha, Nebraska
1970 – Michael O’Shea, Canadian CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts), born in North Bay, Ontario
1973 – Oswaldo Sanchez, Mexican footballer

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Famous Deaths

1974 – Jacqueline Susann, American author (Valley of the Dolls), dies of cancer at 56
1988 – Robert Gwathmey, artist, dies at 85
1993 – Fernand Ledoux, Belgian-French actor (L’Homme de Londres), dies at 96
1996 – Sabine Zlatin, Polish-born French nurse, who tried save Izieu children from Nazis, dies at 89
2000 – Bryan Smith, Man who ran over Stephen King (b. 1957)
2011 – Troy Anthony Davis, American high-profile death row inmate and human rights activist (executed) (b. 1968)

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Historical Events

1792 – French defeat Prussians at Valmy
1854 – Battle of the Alma: British, French and Ottoman alliance defeat the Russian Empire in the 1st major battle of the Crimean War
1873 – Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) NY shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal
1983 – Cryptographic Communications System and Method (RSA) patented
1986 – Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State
2011 – The United States ends its “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

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Famous Birthdays

1832 – Johann Joseph Abert, German composer, born in Gastorf, Bohemia (d. 1915)
1920 – Jay Ward, American cartoonist (Rocky and his Friends, Bullwinkle), born in Berkeley, California (d. 1989)
1927 – Clarice Taylor, American actress (Nurse Bailey-Nurse), born in Buckingham County, Virginia (d. 2011)
1950 – James P[aul] Blaylock, American sci-fi author (Elfin Ship, Homunculus), born in Long Beach, California
1990 – John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Islanders), born in Mississauga, Ontario
1995 – Sammi Hanratty, American actress

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Famous Deaths

1639 – John Meursius [van Meurs], historian, dies at 60
1773 – Pieter de Swart, architect (Delfts Port Rotterdam), dies at 63
1939 – Paul Bruchési, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Montreal, dies at 83
1973 – Glenn Strange, American actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
1995 – Walter Haas Jr., American businessman and sports team owner (Levi Strauss and Co, Oakland A’s), dies of prostate cancer at 79
2009 – John Hart, American actor (The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Captain Africa), dies from complications of dementia at 91

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Historical Events

1888 – One of first known modern beauty contests held in Spa, Belgium
1939 – Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland
1940 – Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance
1960 – “LIFE” magazine celebrates artist Anna Mary “Grandma” Moses’ 100th birthday by putting her on their cover
1992 – Demolition begins of JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; built in 1926 as Sesquicentennial Stadium, also known as Municipal Stadium, it hosted the 1926 Tunney-Dempsey fight, 41 Army-Navy football games, The Beatles; The Rolling Stones; victory rallies for The NHL Flyers and MLB Phillies; and the US portion of Live-Aid
2004 – 56th Emmy Awards: The Sopranos, Arrested Development, James Spader and Allison Janney win

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Famous Birthdays

1811 – Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader, born in Hartford, New York (d. 1881)
1946 – Michael Elphick, British stage and screen actor (Gorky Park; Boon), born in Chichester, Sussex, England (d. 2002)
1951 – Richard Dashut, American record producer (Bob Welch; Fleetwood Mac: Lindsey Buckingham), born in West Hollywood, California
1959 – Marshall Jefferson, American musician ‘father of house music’ (Move your Body), born in Chicago, Illinois
1962 – Ken Rosenthal, American sportswriter and reporter, born in Oyster Bay, Long Island
1966 – Soledad O’Brien, American journalist (Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien), born in St. James, New York

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Famous Deaths

1339 – Go-Daigo, 96th Emperor of Japan (1318-39), dies at 50
1710 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer, dies at 65
1993 – Richard Landau, American screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79
1995 – Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist, dies at 83
1996 – Timothy Nicholson, journalist, dies at 32
2006 – Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)

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