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Historical Events

1921 – Perfume Chanel No. 5 released by fashion designer Coco Chanel
1947 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King’s Men)
1981 – After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in the Maze Prision. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.
2015 – “Traveller” debut album by Chris Stapleton is released (Grammy Award Best Country Album, 2016; Billboard Album of the Year, 2016)
2017 – Anna Wintour, the editor of US Vogue, is made a dame by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace
2021 – A week of mass protests and demonstrations against government tax reform and poverty in Colombia leaves 24 dead

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Famous Birthdays

1352 – Rupert, King of Germany (1400-10), born in Amberg, Germany (d. 1410)
1741 – John Archer, American Congressman who received the 1st medical diploma issued on US continent (1768), born near Churchville, Maryland (d. 1810)
1804 – Jacob Kats, Flemish writer (Earthly Paradise), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1886)
1918 – Erbie Bowser, American blues and jazz pianist, born in Davila, Texas (d. 1995)
1935 – Edward “Kidd” Jordan, American jazz saxophonist and music educator, born in Crowley, New Orleans
1973 – Matt Dubuc, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts), born in Montreal, Quebec

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Famous Deaths

1672 – Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
1801 – Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter and engraver, dies at 74
1921 – Alfred Hermann Fried, German pacifist (Nobel 1911-co-founder of the German peace movement), dies at 56
1995 – Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, British engineer (float glass), dies at 75
1998 – Syd Lawrence, British bandleader (Syd Lawrence Orchestra), dies at 74
2011 – Claude Choules, last surviving World War I veteran (b. 1901)

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Historical Events

1256 – Augustinian monastic order constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae
1626 – Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands
1917 – A flotilla of US destroyer ships arrive in Queenstown, Ireland, to aid in convoying ships to England
1919 – 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC, 35,000 watch the Phillies beat the NY Giants 4-3
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
2012 – 14 decapitated bodies and 9 hung from a bridge are found in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico

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Famous Birthdays

1826 – Frederick Edwin Church, American romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1900)
1877 – Arthur Lang, American boxer and businessman, born in Van Wert, Ohio (d. 1992)
1893 – Edgar Dearing, American actor (Pollyanna, Abraham Lincoln, Free and Easy), born in Ceres, California (d. 1974)
1903 – Elmer Layden, College Football Hall of Fame fullback (Notre Dame legendary 4-horsemen, 1st NFL Commissioner), born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1973)
1921 – Edo Murtić, Croatian painter, born in Velika Pisanica, Bjelovar, Croatia (d. 2005)
1928 – Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president (1981-2011) who was ousted during the Arab spring, born in Kafr-El Meselha, Egypt (d. 2020)

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Famous Deaths

1506 – Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
1799 – Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader killed during Battle of Seringapatam, dies at 48
1879 – William Froude, English engineer and naval architect, dies at 68
1937 – Noel Rosa, Brazilian guitrist, mandolin player, and songwriter, dies of tuberculosis at 26
1971 – Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83
2013 – Otis Bowen, American politician, US Sec of Health and Human Services (1985-89), dies at 95

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Historical Events

1512 – Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateran at St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome
1937 – Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for “Gone With The Wind”
1944 – Meat rationing ends in US
1960 – The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1965 – Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
1980 – Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL and NL

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Famous Birthdays

1923 – Ralph Hall, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Texas (1981-2005), born in Fate, Texas
1956 – Akio Toyoda, Japanese president of Toyota Motor Corporation, born in Nagoya, Japan
1957 – [Michael] Cactus Moser, American country singer (Highway 101), born in Montrose, Colorado
1974 – Princess Haya bint Hussein of Jordan, daughter of King Hussein of Jordan and his third wife, Queen Alia, born in Amman, Jordan
1980 – Marcel Vigneron, American chef (Top Chef), born in Bainbridge Island, Washington
1983 – Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer, born in Paramaribo, Suriname

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Famous Deaths

1294 – John I, Duke of Brabant and Limburg and poet, dies murdered aged 41 or 42
1964 – Diana Wynyard, British stage and film actress (Cavalcade), dies of renal disease at 58
1990 – Pimen [Sergei Irzyekov], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 79
2003 – Suzy Parker, American model and actress (Chamber of Horrors), dies at 70
2018 – Joe Scannella, American football coach (Oakland Raiders, Montreal Alouettes, Cleveland Browns), dies at 89
2018 – Alfonso Dhlakama, Mozambican politician and opposition leader (RENAMO), dies of a heart attack at 65

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Historical Events

1946 – The “Battle of Alcatraz” takes place, killing two guards and three inmates
1957 – First Hammer color horror film released “The Curse of Frankenstein” starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
1969 – British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves Southampton on maiden voyage to NY
1984 – Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Sunday in the Park with George”, a fictionalized version of painter Georges Seurat’s relationship with his grandson, starring Mandy Patinkin, opens at Booth Theater, NYC; runs for 604 performances, wins a Pulitzer Prize for Drama
1999 – John Elway announces his retirement from the NFL
2002 – Marad massacre of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala

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Famous Birthdays

1857 – Frederic Cliffe, English composer, born in Bradford, Yorkshire (d. 1931)
1859 – Eugène d’Harcourt, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1918)
1924 – Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American stage and screen singer and actor (The Sound of Music; Fiddler On The Roof; The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming; 200 Motels), folk singer (co-founder Newport Folk Festival), and political activist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2015)
1942 – Jacques Rogge, Belgian sports administrator, (8th President International Olympic Committee 2001-13), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 2021)
1945 – Goldy McJohn [John Goadsby], Canadian rock keyboard and Hammond B3 organ player (Steppenwolf – “Magic Carpet ride”; ‘Born To Be Wild”), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2017)
1975 – David Beckham, English soccer midfielder (115 caps [58 as captain]; Man Utd, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Paris SG, LA Galaxy) and owner (Inter Miami CF, Salford City), born in London, England

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Famous Deaths

1845 – August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48
1918 – Ernie Parker, Australian tennis player (Australasian C’ship 1913), dies in action WWI at 34
1954 – Pauline Manifarges, Dutch contralto singer, dies at 82
1985 – Bridget D’Oyly Carte, British theater and hotel director, dies of lung cancer at 77
1998 – Hide [Hideto Matsumoto], Japanese rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer (X Japan; Zilch), takes his own life at 33
2018 – Tony Cucchiara, Italian folk singer and songwriter (“Cain and Abel”), dies at 80

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