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Historical Events

1929 – WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
1950 – 1st annual National Book Awards
1957 – 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young and Loretta Young win
1969 – Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo’s Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
2003 – 44th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Mississippi State, 64-57
2012 – Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan

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Famous Birthdays

1774 – Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia)
1878 – Henry B Walthall, American actor (The Birth of a Nation, Klondike), born in Shelby City, Alabama (d. 1936)
1883 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
1920 – Reginald “Leo” McKern, Australian actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2002)
1937 – Amos Tversky, Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist, born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine (d. 1996)
1955 – Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director

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Famous Deaths

1914 – Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux at 55
1933 – Alfred Haar, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
1988 – Dorothy Adams Foulger, actress (Laura, Devil Commands), dies at 88
2005 – Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)
2008 – Ola Brunkert, Swedish pop, rock and jazz drummer (ABBA), dies from injuries after a fall at 61
2008 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (Australian opener of the 30’s and 40’s), dies at 95

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Historical Events

1360 – French attack English south coast, raiding Winchelsea
1962 – Richard Rodger’s musical “No Strings” opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances
1972 – NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
1991 – 4 officers of the Los Angeles Police Department are charged with excessive force over the beating of Rodney King
1994 – 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
2004 – Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed.

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Famous Birthdays

938 – Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963)
1811 – Robert Allen, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in West Point, Ohio (d. 1886)
1844 – Bransby Cooper, cricketer (in Dhaka Batsman in Australia’s 1st Test)
1950 – Jørgen Olsen, Danish singer
1958 – Laura Carrington, American actress (Louisa-Alphabet City, General Hospital), born in NYC, New York
1969 – Kim Raver, American actress

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Famous Deaths

493 – Odoacer [Odiaker] German army leader, King of Italy (476-93), murdered by Theodoric the Great at about 60
1881 – Emory Upton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), commits suicide at 41
1891 – Théodore de Banville, French writer, dies at 67
1918 – Lili [Marie-Juliette Olga] Boulanger, French composer (first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize), dies at 24
2006 – Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
2007 – Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)

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Historical Events

1592 – “Ultimate Pi day”: on this day at 6.53am is the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi, since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.14159265358)
1909 – Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
1967 – 1967 NFL Draft: Michigan State defensive end Bubba Smith first pick by Baltimore Colts
1985 – Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1987 – Worlds Ladies’ Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
2010 – 57th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #4 Duke beats Georgia Tech, 65-61

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Famous Birthdays

1875 – Norman O’Neill, English composer, born in Kensington, London (d. 1934)
1912 – Les Brown, American big band leader (His Band of Renown – “Sentimental Journey”), born in Reinerton, Pennsylvania (d. 2001)
1915 – Kenneth Rowntree, painter
1961 – Russell Todd, actor (Jamie Frame-Another World)
1970 – Ebru Kavaklıoğlu, Russian athlete
1978 – Ron Dayne, American College Football Hall of Fame running back (Heisman Trophy 1999, University of Wisconsin; NY Giants), born in Lynchburg, Virginia

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Famous Deaths

1860 – Louis-Antoine Jullien, French conductor, dies at 47
1973 – Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
1980 – Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b. 1902)
1988 – Willi Apel, German-American musicologist (Harvard dictionary of music), dies at 94
2002 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930)
2018 – Jim Bowen, British TV game show host (Bullseye) and comedian, dies at 80

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Historical Events

1852 – Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
1888 – Great Blizzard of 1888 rages across the east coast of the USA and Canada
1918 – Leon Trotsky gains control of the Red Army
1949 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1954 – Viet Minh General Võ Nguyên Giáp opens the assault on French forces at Dien Bien Phu, northwest Vietnam
2018 – National Geographic magazine admits its past coverage was racist in issue to mark 50 years since death of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Famous Birthdays

1822 – Moritz von Strachwitz, German poet, born in Peterwitz, Silesia (d. 1847)
1959 – Kathy Hilton, American socialite-Hilton Hotels, mother of Nikki Hilton and Paris Hilton, born in NYC, New York
1960 – Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist, born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
1970 – Michael Arrington, American founder of blog TechCrunch, born in Orange, California
1979 – Cedric Van Branteghem, Belgian athlete, born in Ghent, Belgium
1981 – Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player, born in Glasgow, Scotland

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Famous Deaths

1569 – Louis, Prince of Condé (1530-69), dies in Battle of Jarnac at 39
1778 – Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
1879 – Adolf Anderssen, German world chess champion (1851-66), dies at 60
1976 – Willy Alfredo [Willem Jue], Dutch comedian/poet, dies at 77
1994 – Sandra Paretti, German romantic novelist, dies at 59
2001 – Cranley Onslow, British politician (C, dies at 74

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