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Historical Events

1887 – “World Championship” Baseball Series, Sportsman’s Park, Detroit Wolverines (NL) beat St Louis Browns (AA), 10 games to 5 in series played in bitterly cold conditions
1941 – Second meeting of partisans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
1970 – Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
1975 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1997 – World Series Baseball: Florida beats Cleveland Indians, 3-2 in Game 7 at Pro Player Stadium, Miami for Marlins first-ever title; MVP: Florida pitcher Liván Hernández
2017 – US President Donald Trump declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency

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Famous Birthdays

1673 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Romanian historian and Monarch of Moldova (1710-11), born in Silişteni, Moldavia (d. 1723)
1789 – Joseph Mayseder, Austrian violinist and composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1863)
1880 – Andrei Bely [Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev], Russian writer (Petersburg), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1934)
1893 – Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet (Seobe), born in Csongrád, Austria-Hungary (d. 1977)
1929 – Hans Peter Haller, German composer, born in Radolfzell, Germany (d. 2006)
1977 – Jon Heder, American actor (Napoleon Dynamite), born in Fort Collins, Colorado

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Famous Deaths

1896 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1903 – Herbert Oakeley, English composer, dies at 73
1966 – Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
1982 – Giovanni Benelli, archbishop of Florence/Pope candidate, dies
1991 – Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist’s 485 lb umbrella
2008 – Delmar Watson, American child actor (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Heidi, Annie Oakley), dies at 82

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Historical Events

1671 – Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn
1885 – Johannes Brahms’ 4th Symphony in E premieres
1929 – Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe in the Teapot scandal – 1st US Cabinet member to go to jail
1930 – 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
2013 – 74 Boko Harem members killed in a coordinated assault in Borno State, Nigeria
2020 – Chile overwhelmingly votes to scrap their constitution, drafted during dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet

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Famous Birthdays

1906 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (World Heavyweight Champion 1933-34), born in Sequals, Italy (d. 1967)
1926 – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter, born in Peshawar, Pakistan (d. 2007)
1936 – Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian (Winston Churchill biography), born in London, England
1971 – Laura Chapot, equestrian show jumper (Olympics 1996)
1973 – Steve White, American football defensive end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1979 – Rob Hulse, English footballer (Sheffield United), born in Crewe, England

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Famous Deaths

79 – Gaius Plinius Secundus [Pliny the Elder], Roman admiral and writer, dies during eruption of Mount Vesuvius [approx date, month of eruption disputed]
1942 – Ted Arnold, English cricketer (England all-rounder in 10 Tests 1903-05), dies at 65
1991 – Bill Graham, rock concert promoter (Filmore, Dylan), dies at 60
1992 – Roger Miller, American country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me), dies at 56
2013 – Marcia Wallace, American actress (Carol-Bob Newhart Show), dies from pneumonia at 70
2019 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer (Mode of Shang), dies at 96

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Historical Events

1881 – Levi P Morton, US ambassador to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty
1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States’ support to South Vietnam
1957 – The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
1968 – The People’s Democracy (PD) stage a protest demonstration at Stormont Parliament buildings, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1976 – 1st Jewish film and TV festival
1980 – Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity

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Famous Birthdays

1863 – Manuel Manrique de Lara, Spanish composer (The Oresteia), born in Cartagena, Murcia (d. 1929)
1885 – Ernest Claes, Belgian author (Saints from Zichem), born in Zichem, Belgium (d. 1968)
1924 – Piet Roozenburg, Dutch World champion checker player (1948, 51, 52, 55), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 2003)
1934 – Margie Masters, Australian golfer (Western Open runner-up 1966), born in Swan Hill, Victoria
1950 – Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), born in Camden, New Jersey
1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician, Prime Minister (2015-18), born in Sydney, Australia

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Famous Deaths

1930 – Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director (Dr Faustus), dies at 26
1931 – Murray Bisset, South African cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1899 and 1910), dies at 55
1938 – Ernst Barlach, German writer and artist, dies at 68
1982 – James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58
2004 – Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954)
2008 – Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist (b. 1943)

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Historical Events

1760 – First Jewish prayer books printed in North America
1805 – Sailing ship “Aeneus” sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
1814 – One of the first modern plastic surgeries in the west performed by Joseph Carpue on a soldier’s nose in England using Indian techniques
1854 – English newspaper “The Times” gives precise British positions in Crimea during Crimean War
1989 – Browns’ Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
2019 – Hong Kong Legislative Council scraps the extradition bill that sparked months of protests and unrest

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Famous Birthdays

1905 – Alexander Shamil’yevich Melik-Pashayev, Georgian conductor and composer (Bol’shoy Theatre, 1931-62), born in Tblisi (d. 1964)
1917 – Robert Bray, American actor (Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West), born in Kalispell, Montana (d. 1983)
1950 – Harry Sacksioni, Dutch guitarist (Around the Corner)
1968 – Bettina Fulco Villella, Argentinian tennis star (1993 Futures), born in Mar Del Plata, Argentina
1969 – Sanjay Gupta, American neurosurgeon and medical reporter (CNN), born in Novi, Michigan
1986 – Emilia Clarke, English actress (Game of Thrones), born in London, England

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Famous Deaths

1892 – Emin Pasha, German explorer and governor (Equatoria), murdered at 52
1901 – Georg von Siemens, German banker and politician (Deutsche Bank), dies at 62
1942 – Georg Stumme, German general, commandant of African corps, dies at 56
1984 – David Gorcey, actor (Angel’s Alley), dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
2008 – Kevin Finnegan, British Middleweight Boxing Champion (b. 1948)
2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American Mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry, dies at 94

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