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Historical Events

1920 – Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
1988 – Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
1988 – -11] Army in Rangoon, Myanmar fires on pro-democracy students, killing thousands during the “8888 Uprising”
1990 – Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp
2007 – Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as world’s richest person with estimated net worth of US$59 billion, according to “Fortune”
2016 – Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú wins the women’s 100m backstroke gold medal in a time of 58.45; her second gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games

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Famous Birthdays

1605 – Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
1912 – Daniel Mann [Chugerman], American stage and screen director (The Rose Tattoo; The Teahouse Of The August Moon; Butterfield 8), born in Brooklyn, New York
1944 – Brooke Bundy, American actress
1953 – “Sweet” Lou Dunbar, basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
1961 – The Edge [Dave Evans], rock guitarist (U2-I Will Follow), born in London, England
1981 – Bradley McIntosh, British pop singer

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Famous Deaths

1684 – George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
1940 – Johnny Dodds, American early jazz clarinetist, dies at 48
1982 – Eric Brandon, British racing driver, dies at 62
1993 – Lou van Rees, Dutch impresario, dies at 77
2007 – Ma Lik, Chinese politician (b. 1952)
2009 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish football player (b. 1983)

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Historical Events

1907 – MLB Washington Senators legendary pitcher Walter Johnson wins first of his 416 career wins, 7-2 v Cleveland
1912 – Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for US President
1914 – Engagement between British cruiser HMS Gloucester and German cruisers SMS Breslau and SMS Goeben off Greece
1942 – Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1960 – Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) gains independence from France
2018 – “Crazy Rich Asians” first Hollywood film with all-Asian cast, starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh premieres in Los Angeles

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Famous Birthdays

1906 – Gerhard Frommel, German composer and pedagogue, born in Karlsruhe, Germany (d. 1984)
1926 – John Woodcock OBE, English cricket journalist (‘The Times’ 1954-88; Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1981-86; President Cricket Writers’ Club 1986-2004), born in Longparish, England (d. 2021)
1951 – Gary Hall, American swimmer (Olympics-bronze/2 silver-1968, 72), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1957 – Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast (3-time Olympic Champion), born in Leningrad, Russia
1958 – Russell Baze, Canadian Racing Hall of Fame jockey (10-time US champion, 12,844 wins), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1978 – Vanness Wu, Taiwanese-American singer (F4, Kangta and Vanness), born in Santa Monica, California

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Famous Deaths

1916 – Charles E Manning, Australian judge/major, dies in battle at 36
1942 – Janusz Korczak [Henryk Goldszmit], Polish-Jewish educator and pedagogue (ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto), is gassed at Treblinka extermination camp along with the residents of his orphanage at 64
1961 – Frank Buchman, American theologist (Moral Re-Armament), dies at 83
1976 – Cecil Weston, South African-born actress (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 86
1995 – Tom Scott, Scottish poet (Sea Dirge: A Mither’s Keenin), dies at 77
1997 – Douglas Gray, Scottish record and film producer, dies at 74

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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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