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Historical Events

1903 – American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1915 – 77th Grand National: legendary jockey Jack Anthony wins his second of 3 GN’s aboard 100/8 bet Ally Sloper
1952 – 14th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St. Johns, 80-63; first tournament to have a true “Final Four” format
1954 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1972 – William Whitelaw appointed as the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
1980 – Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)

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Famous Birthdays

1916 – Vic Schoen, American orchestra leader (Patti Page Olds Show), born in Brooklyn, New York
1932 – Al Bianchi, American basketball guard, coach and general manager (Philadelphia 76ers, Virginia Squires; GM NY Knicks), born in Queens, NY (d. 2019)
1939 – Jonathan Tod, British Vice-Admiral (Royal Navy)
1954 – Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1968 – James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle), born in Chicago, Illinois
1973 – Matt Burke, Australian rugby union fullback (81 caps; NSW Waratahs; Eastwood) and broadcaster (Network 10), born in Sydney, Australia

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Famous Deaths

1258 – Floris, the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies
1517 – Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer
1920 – William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834)
1924 – Augusto (de Oliveira) Machado, Portuguese composer (Lauriane; Camões es os Luziadas), dies at 78
2004 – Jan Sterling [Jane Adriance], American actress (Ace in the Hole, The High and the Mighty), dies of diabetes and a stroke at 82
2013 – Tom Boerwinkle, American NBA player, dies at 67

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Historical Events

1913 – Great Dayton Flood: winter rains cause Great Miami River to flood, Ohio’s greatest natural disaster
1947 – Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois kills 111
1971 – James Callaghan speaks at a rally of the Northern Ireland labour movement, but rejects calls for the Labour Party to open membership to those living in N. Ireland
1979 – Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova retains her WTA Tour Championship with a 6–3, 3–6, 6–2 win over American teenager Tracey Austin in NYC
2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood
2013 – Golfer Tiger Woods returns to his world number one ranking

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Famous Birthdays

1820 – Xavier de Merode, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope in Rome (d. 1874)
1886 – Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1906 – A.J.P Taylor [Alan John Percival], English historian (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918, Origins of the Second World War), born in Southport, England (d. 1990)
1908 – David Lean, English director (Doctor Zhivago, Ryan’s Daughter), born in Croydon, England
1937 – Tom Monaghan, American founder of Dominos pizza, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan
1967 – Doug Stanhope, American comedian

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Famous Deaths

1766 – Johannes Ritschel, German composer, dies at 26
1873 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
1880 – Ludmilla Assing, German writer, dies at 59
1937 – John Drinkwater, English poet and playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54
2001 – Brian Trubshaw, British test pilot, first to fly Concorde. dies at 77
2019 – Cal Ramsey, American basketball broadcaster, small forward (NY Knicks), dies of cardiac arrest at 81

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Historical Events

1878 – British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
1899 – 61st Grand National: George Williamson aboard 1897 winner Manifesto wins by 4 lengths from Ford Of Fyne
1933 – Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
1970 – Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends “Sjors and Sjimmie” strip
1980 – Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks on the LP “Rarites”
1991 – WrestleMania VII in LA Memorial Sports Arena, CA: Hulk Hogan beats Sgt Slaughter for WWF Heavyweight title

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Famous Birthdays

1607 – Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)
1725 – Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
1855 – Andrew Mellon, American banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1947)
1895 – Leo “Syd” Sailor, American actor (Arizona Days, Waterfront), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1962)
1907 – Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960)
1983 – T. J. Ford, American basketball player

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Famous Deaths

1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
1916 – Enrique Granados, Spanish opera composer (Goyescas), drowns while crossing the English Channel in a torpedo attack at 48
1956 – Edmund Taylor Whittaker, British mathematician (applied mathematics and the theory of special functions), dies at 82
1991 – Sir John Kerr, Australian politician and the Governor General who dismissed the Whitlam Government, dies at 76
1995 – Trevor Oswald Ling, English religious Studies Professor, dies at 75
2016 – Garry Shandling, American comedian (It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, Larry Sanders Show), dies at 66

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Historical Events

1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in hospital two days later
1919 – 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original members Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Krestinsky
1951 – Wages in France increase 11%
2003 – 75th Academy Awards: “Chicago Best Picture,” Adrien Brody and Nicole Kidman win
2013 – 20 people are killed and 200 are injured by a tornado in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh

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Famous Birthdays

1881 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel ’53)
1887 – Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog)
1922 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian comedy actor, director and screenwriter (La Cage Aux Folles, The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man), born in Cremona, Italy (d. 1990)
1934 – Teresa Proccacini, Italian organist and composer (Clown Music), born in Cerignola, Italy
1963 – Ana Quirot, Cuba, 800m runner (Olympics-bronze/silver-92, 96)
1973 – Naoko Sawamatsu, Nishinomiya Japan, tennis star (1994 Singapore)

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Famous Deaths

1618 – James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician
1946 – Gilbert N. Lewis, American Chemist (atomic theory), dies at 70
1958 – Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76
1993 – Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84
2007 – Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician (Cohen forcing, Continuum hypothesis), dies at 72
2007 – Paul J. Cohen, American mathematician, Fields Medal winner (b. 1934)

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