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Historical Events

1816 – US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1914 – Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
1941 – German army enters Ukraine
1974 – House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
1991 – TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition
1996 – Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured

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Famous Birthdays

1886 – Ernst May, German architect and city planner (New Frankfurt), born in Frankfurt am Main (d. 1970)
1896 – Henri Longchambon, French politician, born in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France (d. 1969)
1904 – Kenneth Bainbridge, American physicist (measurements of mass differences between nuclear isotopes), born in Cooperstown, New York (d. 1996)
1917 – Isabelle Kelley, American social worker credited with instigating the US Federal Food Stamp Program, born in Ellington, Connecticut (d. 1997)
1942 – John Pleshette, American actor (Richard-Knots Landing, 7th Avenue), born in NYC, New York
1979 – Shannon Moore, American professional wrestler, born in Cameron, North Carolina

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Famous Deaths

1689 – John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, fatally wounded at the Battle of Killiecrankie at 41
1844 – John Dalton, English physicist and chemist who developed the atomic theory of matter and researched colour blindness, dies at 77
1978 – Willem Van Otterloo, Dutch cellist, composer, and conductor (Residentie Orkest, 1949-73; Melbourne Symphony, 1967-70; Sydney Symphony, 1971-77), dies in a car crash at 70
1979 – Shirley Mason, actress (Let it Rain, Dark Skies), dies at 79
1986 – Leroy Holmes, American orchestra leader (The Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72
2021 – Mike Hendrick, English cricket fast bowler (30 Tests, 87 wickets; 22 ODIs; Derbyshire CCC), dies from bowel cancer at 72

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Historical Events

1878 – In California, poet and American West outlaw calling himself “Black Bart” makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box found later with a taunting poem inside.
1944 – Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
1963 – US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1990 – General Hospital records its 7,000th episode
2012 – Insurgent attack kills 19 people and destroys a helicopter at Baqubah, Iraq
2021 – Ship carrying migrants wrecks off coast of Al-Khums, Libya, killing at least 57, takes death toll in central Mediterranean to 987 for 2021

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Famous Birthdays

1899 – Carel C. van Essen, Dutch archaeologist (Italian and Roman art), born in Amsterdam (d. 1963)
1921 – Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (A Christmas Story), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1999)
1926 – James Best [Jewel Franklin Guy], American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Sounder), born in Powderly, Kentucky (d. 2015)
1940 – Dobie Gray [Lawrence Brown], American musician and singer (“Drift Away”), born in Simonton, Texas (d. 2011)
1952 – Jan Randall, American-Canadian film, stage and broadcast composer (The Irrelevant Show; Poetry In Motion), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1980 – Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41), born in Ajax, Ontario

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Famous Deaths

1592 – Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
1925 – William Jennings Bryan, American orator and statesman known as “The Great Commoner”, dies at 65
1971 – Diane Arbus [Nemerov], American photographer (Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar), commits suicide at 48
1994 – Owen “Terry” Scott, British actor and comedian (Terry and June, Carry On Films), dies of cancer at 67
2005 – Alexander Golitzen, American art director (b. 1908)
2005 – Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)

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Historical Events

1652 – Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian Orthodox Church
1917 – Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a “temporary” measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1985 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990 – US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won’t take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
1993 – The St James’ Church massacre in Kenilworth, Cape Town by Azanian Peoples’ Liberation Army
1993 – 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)

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Famous Birthdays

1421 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician, born in Leconfield, United Kingdom (d. 1461)
1897 – Hermann Ambrosius, German composer, born in Hamburg (d. 1983)
1927 – Stanley Dancer, American harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown), born in West Windsor Township, New Jersey (d. 2005)
1930 – Annie Ross, British-American jazz singer (Lambert, Hendricks and Ross – “Twisted”) and actress, born in London (d. 2020)
1956 – Frances Arnold, American Chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2018), born in Edgewood, Pennsylvania
1971 – Billy Wagner, American MLB pitcher (Houston Astros), born in Tannersville, Virginia

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Famous Deaths

1643 – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
1814 – Charles Dibdin, British composer, author (Sea Songs), and actor, dies at 69
1997 – Margaret Farrer, midwife, dies at 83
2003 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer, dies at 91
2005 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist, dies at 76
2011 – Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922)

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Historical Events

1651 – Anthony Johnson, a free African American, receives grant of 250 acres in Virginia
1971 – WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1976 – John Naber is 1st to swim 200m backstroke under 2 minutes
2014 – 47th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2019 – 10th million Mini car produced during its 60th anniversary year in Oxford, England
2019 – Global warming is the fastest in 2,000 years and scientific consensus that humans are the cause is at 99%, according to three major reports published in journals “Nature” and “Nature Geoscience”

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Famous Birthdays

1935 – Trevor Chinn, CEO (Lex)
1941 – Barbara Love, American soul singer (Friends of Distinction), born in Los Angeles, California
1953 – Claire McCaskill, American politician, junior senator from Missouri
1965 – Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player (Olympics 1984, 88, 92, 96)
1968 – Mark Gunn, NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1986 – Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater

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Famous Deaths

1831 – Maria Szymanowska, Polish pianist and composer, dies of cholera at 41
1842 – John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies
1936 – Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of German Empire, dies at 78
1954 – Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
2008 – Robert T. Herres, American air force officer (Vice Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff), dies at 75
2018 – Tony Cloninger, American MLB pitcher and coach (2 Grand Slams in one game), dies at 77

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