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Historical Events

1640 – English Short Parliament rises
1956 – World championships of judo are 1st held in Tokyo
1966 – Borussia Dortmund of West Germany win 6th European Cup Winner’s Cup against Liverpool of England 2-1 in Glasgow
1969 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
1978 – Cincinnati Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits
1987 – Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East

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Famous Birthdays

1854 – Antonio Smareglia, Italian composer, born in Pula, Austria-Hungary (d. 1929)
1932 – Will Hutchins, American actor (Sugarfoot, Hey Landlord), born in Atwater, California
1955 – Robert Feld, National Scrabble Champion (1990), born in Nashville, Tennessee
1976 – Sage Stallone, American actor (Rocky V) and the eldest son of Sylvester Stallone, born in Los Angeles, California
1981 – Danielle Christine Fishel, American actress (Topanga-Boy Meets World), born in Mesa, Arizona
1985 – Terrence Wheatley, American football player (New England Patriots), born in Walnut Creek, California

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Famous Deaths

1672 – Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
1859 – Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53
1892 – Jan Nepomuk Škroup, Czech composer, dies at 80
1892 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
1988 – Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist
1989 – Frank Easton, cricket wicket-keeper (NSW 1933-39), dies

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Historical Events

1818 – Netherlands and Britain sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1871 – 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
1933 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
1940 – 21 “not neutral” Nazis and communists arrested in Netherlands
1972 – “The Don’t Make A Wave Committee,” a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to the “Greenpeace Foundation”
1991 – ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent

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Famous Birthdays

1921 – John van Kesteren, Dutch tenor (Komische Oper, West-Berlin), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2008)
1928 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter (Roulette), born in Verdun, Quebec (d. 2006)
1949 – Zal Cleminson, Scottis guitarist (Alex Harvey Band), born in Glasgow
1957 – Peter Sleep, Australian cricketer (Australian leg-spin all-rounder 1979-90), born in Penola, Australia
1973 – Edward Hervey, Canadian NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys), born in Houston, Texas
1984 – Kevin Slowey, American baseball player, born in Conroe, Texas

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Famous Deaths

1594 – Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62
1900 – Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist, dies at 73
1924 – Edith Nesbit, British children books author (The Story of the Treasure Seekers, Five Children and It), dies at 65
1929 – Henry Morton Dunham, composer, dies at 75
1980 – Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav communist revolutionary and leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87
2013 – Otis Bowen, American politician, US Sec of Health and Human Services (1985-89), dies at 95

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Historical Events

1662 – Royal charter granted to Connecticut
1837 – The University of Athens is founded
1939 – The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Subhash Chandra Bose
1945 – British troop join in Rangoon
1971 – “All Things Considered” premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
1980 – Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL and NL

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Famous Birthdays

1695 – Henri Pitot, Italian-French engineer, born in Aramon, France (d. 1771)
1752 – Braz Francisco de Lima, Portuguese composer (d. 1813)
1815 – Hermanus Willem Witteveen, Dutch theologist, born in Boornbergum, Netherlands (d. 1884)
1952 – Caitlin Clarke, American actress (Dragonslayer), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2004)
1955 – Timmy Cappello, American rock and sax player (played with Tina Turner, Ringo Starr and The Lost Boys), born in Silver Lake, New York
1961 – David Vitter, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana (1999-2005), born in New Orleans, Louisiana

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Famous Deaths

1931 – Frank Hoyt Losey, composer, dies at 59
1943 – Leslie Heward, English composer, dies at 45
1992 – George Murphy, American politician (US Senator, California), actor and dancer (MGM Parade), dies of leukemia at 89
2006 – Earl Woods, Athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
2014 – Jim Oberstar, American politician, dies at 79
2018 – Paolo Signorelli, Italian footballer, dies at 79

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Historical Events

1917 – Cin Fred Tooney and Chic’s Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits and a run in 10th, so Cin wins 1-0
1990 – “Some Americans Abroad” opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 62 performances
1999 – John Elway announces his retirement from the NFL
2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI’s most wanted man is killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
2013 – 14 members of the Sons of Iraq are killed in attacks in Fallujah, Iraq
2018 – New research show plants “talk” to each other through their roots and the soil in study on corn published in journal “Plos One”

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Famous Birthdays

1360 – Yongle, Emperor of the Ming Empire (1402-24), born in Yingtian, Yuan Empire, China (d. 1424)
1458 – Eleanor of Viseu, Queen of Portugal (1481-95), born in Beja, Portugal (d. 1525)
1932 – Bruce Glover, American actor (Diamonds are Forever), born in Chicago, Illinois
1944 – Bob Henrit, English pop drummer (Argent – Hold Your Head Up; The Kinks), born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England
1968 – Jeff Agoos, Swiss-American soccer player, born in Geneva, Switzerland
1981 – Matt Murray, English football goalkeeper, born in Solihull, England

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Famous Deaths

1945 – Martin Bormann, German Nazi leader (Hitler’s secretary, chief of the Party Chancellery), most likely commits suicide age 44 [remains identified in 1972]
1984 – Jack Barry, american game show emcee (Joker’s Wild), dies of cardiac arrest at 66
1989 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic Cardinal (b. 1906)
1989 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (b. 1902)
2014 – Jessica Cleaves, American soul singer and songwriter (The Friends of Distinction – “Grazing In The Grass”; Earth, Wind and Fire; Parliament Funkadelic), dies of complications from a stroke at 65
2018 – Katherine O’Regan, New Zealand politician (MP for Waipa, 1984–1996; list MP, 1996–1999), dies of cancer at 71

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