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Historical Events

1901 – French painter Paul Gauguin settles in Atuona in the Marquesas Islands
1915 – US takes control of customs and finances of Haiti for 10 years
1929 – Police shoot at strikers in Maastricht, 2 killed
2006 – 31st Toronto International Film Festival: “Bella” directed by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde wins the People’s Choice Award
2013 – 21 people are killed by Hurricane Ingrid in Mexico
2020 – Yoshihide Suga confirmed as Prime Minister by the Japanese government after Shinzo Abe stood down due to ill health

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Famous Birthdays

1387 – Henry V, King of England (1413-22) and France (1416-19), born in Monmouth Castle, Monmouth, Principality of Wales (date disputed) (d. 1422)
1922 – Guy Hamilton, British director (Goldfinger), born in Paris (d. 2016)
1926 – Robert Schuller, American Christian televangelist (Glass Cathedral, Hour of Power), born in Alton, Iowa (d. 2015)
1948 – Rosemary Casals, American tennis player (12 Grand Slam doubles titles), born in San Francisco, California
1955 – Yolandita Monge, Puerto Rican singer, born in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico
1973 – Clint Peay, American soccer defender (Olympic gold 1996), born in Columbia, Maryland

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Famous Deaths

1589 – Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
1953 – Colin G Fink, US chemist (electro-chemistry), dies
2003 – Sheb Wooley, American vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw), dies at 82
2007 – Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series (b. 1948)
2013 – Jackie Lomax, English singer-songwriter (Is This What You Want), dies at 69
2016 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian President (1999-2006) and Prime Minister (1993-94), dies at 95

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Historical Events

1851 – Saint Joseph’s University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1947 – RCA releases the 12AX7 miniature dual triode vacuum tube; it is still in production
1973 – Ohio State’s Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing
1975 – The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
1997 – Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000
2014 – Ewa Kopacz becomes Prime Minister of Poland

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Famous Birthdays

1837 – Leo van Gheluwe, Belgian composer, born in Wannegem-Lede, East Flanders (d. 1914)
1879 – Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (1932-39), born in Stanley, Tasmania (d. 1939)
1919 – Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter ( The Andromeda Strain), born in New York (d. 2004)
1926 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician (1954 Fields Medal), born in Bages, France
1928 – Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader of the 1950-60s hard bop era (The Black Messiah), born in Tampa, Florida (d. 1975)
1972 – Queen Letizia of Spain, Spanish consort to King Felipe VI, born in Oviedo, Spain

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Famous Deaths

1794 – Abraham Clark, American patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at 68
1930 – Milton Sills, American actor (The Sea Hawk), dies from a heart attack at 48
1978 – Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (b. 1921)
2007 – Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger, and orchestral conductor, dies at 79
2017 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor, musician, and singer (Lucky, Alien, Cool Hand Luke, The Godfather Part II), dies at 91
2018 – Dudley Sutton, British stage and screen actor (Leather Boys; Brimstone and Treacle; Lovejoy – “Tinker Dill”), dies of cancer at 85

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Historical Events

1862 – Battle at South Mountain: Union troops defeat an outnumbered Confederate force
1937 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans US ships from trading arms with China or Japan
1939 – British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
1953 – Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians
1956 – IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton
2020 – Israel becomes the 1st country to announce a second national lockdown due to COVID-19, for 3 weeks

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Famous Birthdays

1656 – Thomas Baker, English antiquarian, born in Lanchester, Durham (d. 1746)
1879 – Margaret Sanger, American nurse, birth control proponent and feminist, born in Corning, New York (d. 1966)
1960 – Melissa Leo, American actress (All My Children), born in Manhattan, New York
1971 – Mario Henry, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons)
1978 – Carmen Kass, Estonian model (estimated to have been the second-highest-paid model in the world in 2002), born in Talinn, Estonia
1981 – Ashley Roberts, American singer (Pussycat Dolls), born in Phoenix, Arizona

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Famous Deaths

1851 – James Fenimore Cooper, American author (Last of Mohicans), dies of dropsy at 61
1974 – Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95
1981 – Yasuji Kiyose, composer, dies at 81
1996 – Joe Elsby Martin, boxing coach, dies at 80
2003 – Yetunde Price, half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)
2008 – Ştefan Iordache, Romanian actor (b. 1941)

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Historical Events

1890 – Cecil Rhodes’ colonists hoist the Union Jack in Mashonaland and Salisbury
1925 – 1st US University for African American, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans
1944 – Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen
1958 – Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times
1985 – 2nd MTV Video Music Awards: Bruce Springsteen
1998 – US Open Men’s Tennis: In an all-Australian final Patrick Rafter retains title; beats Mark Philippoussis 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-0

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Famous Birthdays

1766 – Samuel Wilson, American meat packer and possible namesake of Uncle Sam, born in Menotomy, Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1854)
1830 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (The Child of the Parish), born in Zdislavič, Moravia (d. 1916)
1919 – George Weidenfeld, British publisher (Weidenfeld and Nicolson), born in Vienna (d. 2016)
1949 – Craig McGregor, American rock bassist (Foghat, 1976-2018), born in Sioux City, Iowa (d. 2018)
1969 – Ilka Knickenberg, German actress
1971 – Richie Anderson, American NFL running back (NY Jets), born in Olney, Maryland

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Famous Deaths

1991 – Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
1996 – Silas Roy Crain, American singer, Founder of Soul Stirrers Gospel Quartet, dies at 85
1996 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (Juice, Bullet), dies of internal bleeding after a drive by shooting at 25
2012 – William Duckworth, American composer (Time Curve Preludes), teacher (Bucknell, 1973-2011), and internet pioneer (PitchWeb), dies of pancreatic cancer at 69
2015 – Brian Close, English cricketer (played for England between 1949 and 1976), dies at 84
2019 – Eddie Money [Mahoney], American rock singer-songwriter (“Two Tickets To Paradise”; ‘Take Me Home Tonight”), dies of esophageal cancer at 70

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