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Historical Events

1803 – Peace of Amiens between French Republic and Great Britain ends
1977 – TV drama “Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn”, starring Leigh McCloskey, follow up to “Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway” premieres on US network NBC, focusing on what happened to him after Dawn left L.A. to return to her hometown
1985 – Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium
1996 – Sammy Sosa is 1st Chicago Cub to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
2004 – Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine where during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians
2019 – Last episode of TV sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” starring Jim Parson, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco after 12 seasons

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Famous Birthdays

1928 – Billy Martin, American baseball 2nd baseman (MLB All Star 1956; World Series 1951, 52, 53, 56; NY Yankees) and manager (World Series 1977 NY Yankees), born in Berekeley, California (d. 1989)
1931 – Denise Filiatrault, French-Canadian actress and director (The Plouffe Family), born in Montreal, Quebec
1936 – Philippe de Montebello, art exhibitionist (Treasures of Tut), born in Paris, France
1937 – Yvonne Craig, actress (Batgirl-Batman, Kissin Cousin), born in Taylorville, Illinois (d. 2015)
1940 – Gareth Roberts, chancellor (Sheffield University)
1980 – Michael Ryan, American ice hockey player and coach (Springfield Thunderbirds), born in Boston, Massachusetts

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Famous Deaths

1667 – Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
1777 – Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
1835 – Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies
1891 – Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
1984 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian and actor (Latka-Taxi), dies of cancer at 35
2012 – Doug Dillard, American country rock musician (The Dillards, Gene Clark, Dillard and Clark) and actor (Clem-Popeye), dies of a lung infection caused by a collapsed lung at 75

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Historical Events

1935 – Pirates beat Phillies 20-5
1957 – Operation Grapple: Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb near Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean
1960 – Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
1972 – “Hard Job Being God” opens at Edison Theater NYC for 6 performances
1997 – ABC News and Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com
2020 – Germany, Europe’s largest economy, officially in recession due to COVID-19, as figures show economy shrank 2.2% 1st 3 months of 2020

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Famous Birthdays

1891 – Fritz Feigl, Austrian Brazilian chemist (spot tests), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1971)
1914 – Walter “Turk” Broda, Canadian ice hockey goaltender, 5x Stanley Cup, 2x Vezina Trophy (Toronto Maple Leafs, 1935-51), born in Brandon, Manitoba (d. 1972)
1926 – [Jean-Josephat] Clermont Pépin, Canadian pianist and composer (Implosion Symphony), born in Saint-Georges, Quebec (d. 2006)
1937 – Joe Tait, American sports broadcaster (Cleveland Cavaliers [radio], Cleveland Indians [TV and radio]), born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 2021)
1949 – Wendy Pritchard, Australian women’s field hockey team manager (Olympics 1996)
1969 – Hideki Irabu, Japanese-American NPB and MLB baseball pitcher, 1988-2004 (New York Yankees, 1997-2002), born in Okinawa, Japan (d. 2011)

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Famous Deaths

1591 – Dmitry Ivanovitch, youngest son of Russian Tsar Ivan IV, murdered at 8
1801 – Louis C count Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian diplomat, dies at 73
1823 – Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer, dies at 69
1937 – Phillip Snowden, British politician first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, dies at 72
1984 – Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist, dies at 85
2009 – Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player (b. 1964)

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Historical Events

1886 – 12th Kentucky Derby: Paul Duffy aboard Ben Ali wins in 2:36.50
1975 – Dynamo Kyiv of the Soviet Union win 15th European Cup Winner’s Cup over Ferencvár osi TC of Hungary 3-0
1976 – Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast
1979 – “Kids Are All Right” rockumentary film featuring The Who premieres at the Cannes Film Festival
1988 – “Mail” closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 36 performances
1995 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, DuPont CC: Kelly Robbins wins her only major title by 1 stroke from defending champion Laura Davies of England

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Famous Birthdays

1707 – Antonio Teixeira, Portuguese composer, born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. after 1769)
1870 – Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer
1903 – Billie Dove [Lilian Bohny], American actress (Black Pirate, Stolen Bride), born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)
1912 – Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator
1916 – Del Moore, American comedian and actor (Cal-Bachelor Father), born in Pensacola, Florida (d. 1970)
1950 – Mark Blum, American actor (Worth Winning, Blind Date, Presidio), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2020)

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Famous Deaths

1610 – Henry IV, 1st Bourbon King of Navarra (1572-1610) and France (1589-1610), assassinated at 56
1940 – Edgar du Perron, Dutch author and poet (Land of Origin), dies at 40
1965 – Frances Perkins, American politician and 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position (Labor 1933-45), dies at 83
1991 – Aladár Gerevich, Hungarian fencer (7 Olympic gold 1932, 36, 48, 52, 56, 60), dies at 81
2006 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
2018 – Doug Ford, American golfer (PGA Championship 1955, US Masters 1957), dies at 95

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Historical Events

1890 – Lord Salisbury offers Helgoland to Germany in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda and Equatoria
1943 – German and Italian forces in Africa surrender
1943 – German occupiers attempt to confiscate all radios in the Netherlands
1960 – Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
2001 – 47th British Academy Television Awards: “Da Ali G Show” Best Comedy, “Clocking Off” Best Drama
2019 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, Greystone G andCC: Steve Stricker wins his first career major title by 6 strokes ahead of Billy Andrade, Paul Goydos and David Toms

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Famous Birthdays

1933 – Alden Ashforth, composer
1935 – Nigel Butterley, Australian pianist and composer (The True Samaritan), born in Sydney, Australia
1937 – Teddy Randazzo, American pop singer-songwriter (I’m on the Outside Looking In), born in NYC, New York (d. 2003)
1957 – Claudie Andre-Deshays, French cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-24)
1969 – André Schmechta, German musician (X Marks the Pedwalk, Scarecrow), born in Germany
1981 – Sunny Leone, Canadian born Indian American model and actress, born in Sarnia, Ontario

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Famous Deaths

1742 – Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
1835 – John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent’s Park), dies
1963 – Alois Hudal, Austrian bishop who helped Nazi war criminals escape trial, dies at 77
1984 – Stanislaw Ulam, Polish mathematician, dies at 75
2011 – Bruce Ricker, American jazz and blues documentarian (b. 1942)
2013 – Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, dies from respiratory failure at 85

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