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Historical Events

1928 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Five Farms CC: Leo Diegel dominates Al Espinosa, 6 and 5 in the final to win the first of his 2 consecutive titles
1941 – German army occupies Briansk, USSR
1944 – Allied aircraft accidentally bomb Fishing, Overijssel
1979 – MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat California Angels, 3 games to 1
1990 – Solar Polar Orbiter ‘Ulysses’ launched
2000 – President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milošević resigns

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Famous Birthdays

1884 – Lloyd Spooner, American marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920)
1925 – Shana Alexander, American journalist (60 Minutes), born in NYC, New York
1927 – Alice Bauer, American golfer (co-founder LPGA), born in Eureka, South Dakota (d. 2002)
1960 – Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance)
1963 – Jsu Garcia, American actor
1973 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor

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Famous Deaths

1861 – Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84
1885 – Thomas Talbot, American politician, 31st Governor of Massachusetts, dies at 67
1980 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
1995 – Lillian Fuchs, American violist and composer, dies at 91
2011 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress (Agony and Ecstasy, Wicker Man), dies at 78
2011 – Brad Felt, American jazz tuba and euphonium player, composer, and bandleader, dies of pancreatic cancer at 55

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Historical Events

1813 – Battle of the Thames; American forces under General William Henry Harrison defeat Tecumseh’s Confederacy and their British allies led by Henry Procter near Chatham, Upper Canada
1923 – Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
1944 – Suffrage is extended to women in France
1949 – WOR (now WWOR) TV channel 9 in NY-Secaucus, NY (IND) begins
2013 – New Zealand beats South Africa, 38-27 in Johannesburg to retain the Rugby Championship with an undefeated record; All Black flanker Liam Messam crosses for 2 tries
2017 – Spanish constitutional court suspends Catalan parliament to prevent declaration of independence

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Famous Birthdays

1684 – Johann Jacob de Neufville, German composer, born in Nuremberg (d. 1712)
1879 – Halfdan Cleve [née Klewe], Norwegian pianist and composer, born in Kongsberg, Norway (d. 1951)
1941 – Ricardo Hoffmann, marathon swimmer (299 miles)
1943 – Bonnie Bryant, American golfer (only left-hander to win an LPGA Tour event, Bill Branch Classic 1974), born in Tulare, California
1957 – Jeanne Evert, tennis player, Chris’ sister
1979 – Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey player, born in Owen Sound, Canada

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Famous Deaths

1606 – Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1924 – Tom Campbell, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, ct 7 stp 1), dies
1986 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
1993 – Karl Gordon Henize, American astronomer and NASA astronaut (STS-51-F), dies of high altitude pulmonary edema during an expedition on Mount Everest at 66
1996 – Seymour Cray, American inventor (Cray Research, Cray I supercomputer), dies after a car accident at 71
2015 – Chantal Akerman, Belgian feminist filmmaker (Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, Je Tu II Elle), dies at 65

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Historical Events

1582 – Last Julian calendar day in Spain, Portugal and pontifical states. To sync to the Gregorian calendar, 10 days are skipped and the next date is Oct 15.
1883 – The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul
1910 – Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.
1960 – Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
1962 – USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m
1980 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt’s 2-run homer off Stan Bahnsen in 11th inning gives Philadelphia, 6-4 win v Montreal and NL East title; Schmidt’s 48th of the season; breaks Eddie Mathews’ single-season MLB record for 3rd basemen

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Famous Birthdays

1759 – Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (Du calcul des derivations), born in Mutzig, France (d. 1803)
1872 – Ernest Blood, American Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame coach (Passaic HS, NJ, 200-1 record, 1915-24), born in Manchester, New Hampshire (d. 1955)
1920 – George Tribe, Australian cricket spin bowler (3 Tests; Northamptonshire; 66 VFL games Footscray), born in Yarraville, Victoria (d. 2009)
1930 – Bill Wade, American NFL quarterback (Pro Bowl 1958, 63; LA Rams, Chicago Bears), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 2016)
1980 – Sarah Fisher, American auto racer and team owner (first woman to claim a pole position in a major American open-wheel race, IRL 2002), born in Columbus, Ohio
1981 – Juka, Japanese singer

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Famous Deaths

1912 – Gen Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of US occupation, is executed
1943 – Richard T. Ely, American economist and author (Ground under our feet), dies at 89
1992 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand auto racer (F1 World Drivers’ Champion 1967), dies of a heart attack driving in Bathurst 1,000 at 56
1994 – Heinz Rohmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92
2016 – Hso Khan Pha, 1st President of the democratic and newly independent Union of Burma from 1948-52, dies at 78
2016 – Donald H. White, American composer (Lyric Suite for Euphonium and Winds; Tuba Sonata) and educator, dies at 95

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Historical Events

1569 – Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots
1900 – Edward Elgar/Cardinal Newmans oratorium premieres in Birmingham
1988 – WBMW-FM, Washington, D.C. changes calls to WJFK and begins airing Howard Stern
1990 – Reunification of East and West Germany. West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight.
2013 – 325 people are killed after a migrant ship catches fire and shipwrecks of the coast of Lampedusa, Italy
2018 – 259 people have died taking selfies since 2011 according to study in “Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care”

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Famous Birthdays

1900 – Jay Irving, American cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), born in NYC, New York (d.1970)
1902 – Arturo da Costa e Silva, 27th President of Brazil (1967-69), born in Taquari, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (d. 1969)
1935 – Charles “Charlie” Duke Jr, American Brigadier General and astronaut (Apol 16), born in Charlotte, North Carolina
1951 – Jack Harris, British rock vocalist (The Alan Parsons Project), born in, Shoreditch, Hackney, London
1956 – Hart Bochner, actor (Aron-East of Eden, Supergirl, Die Hard), born in Toronto, Ontario
1984 – Ashlee Simpson, American pop singer (Autobiography), born in Waco, Texas

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Famous Deaths

1207 – Xin Qiji, Chinese poet and military leader, dies at 67
1564 – Christophorus Fabritius [Christoffel Smit], calvinist vicar, burned
1703 – Richard Saab, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded
1941 – Wilhelm Kienzl, Austria composer (Kuhreigen), dies at 84
1989 – Joseph Wybran, Belgian physician/Jews foreman, murdered
2006 – John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1913)

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