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Historical Events

1600 – Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588
1908 – St Louis Cardinals Johnny Lush pitches 2nd career no-hitter vs Brooklyn Superbas; wins, 2-0 (1st no-hitter 1906)
1910 – NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt
1966 – US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam
1985 – MLB Players’ Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
1999 – Tony Gwynn goes 4 for 5 and collects his 3,000th MLB hit as San Diego beats Expos, 12-10 at Montreal Olympic Stadium

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Famous Birthdays

1887 – Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver, born in Edmonton, London (d. 1957)
1923 – Jack Parnell, orchestra leader (Englebert Humperdick Show), born in London, England
1946 – Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
1957 – Bob Horner, American baseball player
1961 – Earl Winfield, CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1968 – Patricia Tarabini, La Plata Argentina, tennis star (1985 Futures ITA)

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Famous Deaths

1828 – Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman, dies of a fever at 43
1853 – Josif Josifovich Genishta, Russian composer, dies at 57
1900 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German socialist (Social Democratic Party), dies at 74
1998 – André Weil, French mathematician (foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry), dies at 92
2001 – Dorothy Tutin, British actress (Importance of Being Ernest, Cromwell), dies at 71
2007 – Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician (number theory), dies at 90

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Historical Events

1936 – Ken Carpenter (50.48 Olympic record) and Gordon Dunn make it an American 1-2 in the men’s discus throw at the Berlin Olympics
1965 – South African cricket batsman Graeme Pollock scores a classic 125 to set the Proteas on the way to a 2nd Test win against England at Trent Bridge
1973 – Atlanta Braves pitcher Phil Niekro no-hits San Diego Padres, 9-0; first no-hitter for franchise in Atlanta
1979 – Government of Mauretania signs peace treaty with Polisario
1992 – Cuba wins baseball’s inaugural gold medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, beating Chinese Taipei 11-1
2018 – British Open Women’s Golf, Royal Lyham and St. Annes: England’s Georgia Hall wins her first major title by 2 shots from Pornanong Phatlum of Thailand

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Famous Birthdays

1886 – Óscar Esplá Spanish composer, born in Alicante, Spain (d. 1976)
1942 – Charles “Chuck” and “Bing” Day, American session guitarist, bassist and blues performer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2008)
1946 – Rick van der Linden, Dutch keyboardist (Ekseption)
1962 – Richard De Groen, New Zealand cricketer (NZ medium pacer), born in Otorohonga, New Zealand
1962 – Otis Thorpe, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies, Detroit Pistons)
1980 – Jason Čulina, Australian soccer player

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Famous Deaths

1778 – Thomas Linley the younger, English composer and musician “English Mozart”, dies at 22
1963 – Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer, dies at 64
1971 – Josef Stanislav, Czech composer, and pedagogue, dies at 74
1990 – Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies
2007 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal of France
2007 – Oliver Hill, American civil rights attorney (Presidential Medal of Freedom 1999), dies at 100

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Historical Events

1897 – Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia
1948 – Hungary’s Olga Gyarmati wins the first ever Olympic women’s long jump competition at the London Games
1983 – Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Thurston House” is published
1984 – Americans Al Joyner and Mike Conley take the gold and silver medals in the men’s triple jump at the Los Angeles Olympics
1985 – Tom Seaver of Chicago White Sox becomes 17th pitcher to win 300 MLB career games, beating New York, 4-1; 54,032 at Yankee Stadium
2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire.

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Famous Birthdays

1825 – Arthur Haygarth, English cricket batsman (Middlesex and Surrey, cricket historian), born in Hastings, Sussex, England (d. 1903)
1921 – Maurice “Rocket” Richard, Canadian NHL star (Montreal Canadiens, MVP-1947), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2000)
1960 – Tim Winton, Australian author
1960 – Bernard Rose, English director
1992 – Cole Sprouse, American actor (Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Riverdale), born in Arezzo, Italy
1992 – Dylan Sprouse, American actor (Suite Life of Zack and Cody), born in Arezzo, Italy

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Famous Deaths

1666 – Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle
1741 – Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
1927 – John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75
1991 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
1999 – Victor Mature, American actor (I Wake Up Screaming, Samson and Delilah), dies from leukaemia at 86
2015 – Gerd Natschinski, German composer, dies at 86

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Historical Events

1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage with three ships, Santa María, Pinta and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain for the “Indies”
1957 – British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
1970 – Christopher Hampton’s “Philanthropist” premieres in London
1991 – Giant Victory driven by Jack Moiseyev wins Hambletonian, 2nd $1m purse in 22 days for Moiseyev after winning Meadowlands Pace
1997 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Glen Abbey GC: Colleen Walker wins by 2 shots from Liselotte Neumann of Sweden
2020 – Number of Iranian COVID-19 deaths triple that of government tally, showing 42,000 have died instead of 14,405, according to BBC Persian Service investigation

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Famous Birthdays

1894 – Johan van Maarseveen, Dutch Minister of Justice and Internal minister, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1951)
1926 – Tony Bennett [Benedetto], American singer (I Left My Heart in San Francisco), born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York
1933 – Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1956), born in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia (d. 2009)
1953 – Ian Bairnson, Scottish musician (Alan Parsons Project; Kate Bush), born in Lerwick, Shetland Isles
1966 – Eric Esch, American boxer, born in Atlanta, Georgia
1972 – Travis Hall, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons), born in Sodoltna, Alaska

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Famous Deaths

1527 – Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
1797 – Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80
1833 – Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies
1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist (Nobel 1915), dies at 69
1948 – Tommy Ryan, American boxer (World Welterweight, Middleweight champion), dies at 78
2015 – Robert Conquest, English historian and poet (The Great Terror), dies at 98

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