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Historical Events

1903 – Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
1943 – 444 British bombers attack Berlin
1985 – Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
1995 – 60th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 31-27 in Auburn
1995 – Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano (19), of Venezuela, crowned 45th Miss World
2017 – Shawn Mendes is the first singer under 18 to get three No. 1 singles on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart

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Famous Birthdays

1898 – Joris Ivens, Dutch director (A Tale of the Wind, Rain), born in Nijmegen, Netherlands (d. 1989)
1915 – Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and umpire, born in Knoxville, Tennessee (d. 2004)
1922 – Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004)
1935 – Rodney Hall, Australian author
1970 – Peter Dutton, Australian politician, Minister for Home Affairs (2017-18), born in Brisbane, Australia
1992 – Nathan Kress, American actor (iCarly – “Freddie”; Into The Storm), born in Glendale, California

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Famous Deaths

942 – Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies
1883 – Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies
1976 – Man Ray, American artist (Dada), dies at 86
1979 – Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball pitcher (MLB record career double plays [79] 1938-64) and manager (Philadelphia Phillies), dies of a heart attack at 78
1992 – Dorothy Kirsten, American operatic soprano (Time to Sing, Chevy Show), dies from stroke at 82
2016 – Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon (1st artificial heart transplant), dies at 96

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Historical Events

1558 – Elizabeth I aged 25, ascends the English throne upon death of her half sister, Queen “Bloody” Mary
1798 – Beginning of a 5 day New England Blizzard that covers thousands of houses and kills hundreds
1877 – Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at Kars, Armenia
1951 – Britain reports development of the world’s first nuclear-powered heating system
1985 – NY Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28
1993 – US House of Representatives approve Nafta

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Famous Birthdays

1911 – William Tannen, American actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull), born in NYC, New York (d. 1976)
1927 – Ellis Hillman, politician
1928 – Colin McDonald, Australian cricket batsman (47 Tests, 5 x 100s; Victoria), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 2021)
1951 – Butch Davis, American football coach
1954 – Jorge Hernández, Cuban boxer Olympic gold light flyweight 1976; World C’ship gold 1974, 78), born in Havana, Cuba (d. 2019)
1966 – Jeff Nelson, pitcher (NY Yankees), born in Baltimore, Maryland

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Famous Deaths

1600 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander, commits seppuku (ritual suicide) after defeat at Battle of Sekigahara (b. 1542)
1968 – Wilhelm Lehmann, German writer, dies at 86
1982 – Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer, legally declared dead
1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American atomic physicist and Nobel laureate (electron scattering in atomic nuclei), dies at 75
2003 – Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
2017 – William Mayer, American composer (A Death in the Family, Brief Candle), dies from heart failure at 91

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Historical Events

13 – General Tiberius’ (later Emperor) triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany
1917 – British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa
1935 – Cole Porter’s musical “Anything Goes” closes at 46th Street Theatre, NYC, after 420 performances
1957 – University of Oklahoma Football NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing 7-0 to Notre Dame at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
1999 – “The Chronic 2001” second studio album by Dr Dre is released
2003 – Roger Federer of Switzerland wins his first of 6 season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a 6–3, 6–0, 6–4 victory over American Andre Agassi in the final in Houston, Texas

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Famous Birthdays

1609 – Henrietta Maria, French-born daughter of Henry IV of France and Queen Consort of England (d. 1669)
1615 – Guillaume Dumanoir, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1697)
1890 – George Seldes, American investigative journalist, born in Alliance Colony, New Jersey (d. 1995)
1922 – Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist who designed the IBM mainframe, born in Flandreau, South Dakota (d. 2015)
1938 – Richard Landry, American composer, born in Cecilia, Louisiana
1969 – Thomas Ingalsbe, 238+ lbs (108+ kg) US weightlifter (Olympics 1996)

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Famous Deaths

1724 – Jack Sheppard, English robber, hanged
1979 – Bert Baston, American College Football Hall of Fame end (University of Minnesota), dies at 84
1994 – John Boylan, American actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless in Seattle), dies at 82
1996 – John Reginald Bevins, British Conservative politician, dies at 88
2004 – Massimo Freccia, Italian-American conductor (New Orleans Symphony, 1944-52: Baltimore Symphony), 1952-59, dies at 98
2016 – Jay Forrester, American engineer, invented random-access magnetic core memory, dies at 98

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Historical Events

1315 – Battle of Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austria
1887 – British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
1901 – 6th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 17-0 in Tuscaloosa
1945 – The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of Fame
1961 – UN bans nuclear arms
2017 – Argentine submarine San Juan goes missing in the Atlantic after reporting mechanical failure

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Famous Birthdays

1604 – Davis Mell, English composer, born in Wilton (d. 1662)
1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss writer, philosopher and founder of physiognomics, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1801)
1868 – Ferruccio Giannini, Italian-American operatic tenor (one of the first to be recorded), teacher, and impresario (Verdi Opera House, Philadelphia), born in Barga, Italy (d. 1948)
1928 – John Orchard, British actor (Capone, M*A*S*H), born in Kennington, London (d. 1995)
1930 – Whitman Mayo, American actor (Grady Wilson-“Sanford and Son”), born in NYC, New York (d. 2001)
1954 – Mitch Easter, American record producer (REM), born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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Famous Deaths

1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510)
1863 – Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (1848-63), dies at 55
1918 – Georges Antoine, Belgian composer, dies at 26
2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2011 – Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer, dies at 65
2020 – Campbell Forsyth, Scottish soccer goalkeeper (4 caps; St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Southampton), dies at 86

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