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Historical Events

1896 – American athlete Robert Garrett wins the throwing double at the Athens Olympics by taking out the shot putt (11.22m); wins the discus the previous day
1933 – University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
1946 – Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
1953 – UN General Assembly begins session that will elect Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden as Secretary-General
1956 – 10th NBA Championship: Philadelphia Warriors beat Ft Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1
1990 – BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr

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Famous Birthdays

1934 – Swami Shantananda, Hindu Saint, Philosopher, Disciple of Swami Sivananda, Founder of Temple of Fine Arts
1940 – Jan Wilhelm Morthenson, Swedish composer, born in Örnsköldsvik
1943 – Dennis Amiss, cricketer (prolific English batsman)
1967 – Steve Wisniewski, NFL guard (Oakland Raiders)
1968 – Duncan Armstrong, Australian swimmer (Olympic gold 200m freestyle 1988), born in Rockhampton, Queensland
1975 – Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player

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Famous Deaths

1747 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal, dies at 70
1950 – Walter Huston, Canadian actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre), dies from an aneurysm at 67
1967 – Anne Morrison Chapin, dies in West Hollywood
2001 – David Graf, American actor (Police Academy- Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry), dies of a heart attack at 50
2002 – John Agar, American actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, Fort Apache), dies at 81
2003 – David Greene, British television director (b. 1921)

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Historical Events

1893 – Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
1903 – In Holland, railroad and dock workers go out on strike, but the government passes anti-strike bills, calls out troops, and promptly ends the strike on the 13th April
1978 – Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by inn and 193 to win Ranji Trophy
1992 – 1st game at Camden Field, Balt-Orioles beat Indians 2-0
1993 – Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to LA Dodgers)
2012 – US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities

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Famous Birthdays

1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, American aircraft industrialist (McDonnell Douglas) and aviation pioneer (Douglas DC-3), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1981)
1900 – Leo Robin, American writer (Thanks For the Memory)
1929 – Art Taylor, American jazz drummer (Bud Powell, Red Garland, John Coltrane, Donald Byrd), band leader (Taylor’s Wailers), and writer (Notes and Tones), born in New York City (d. 1995)
1936 – Manfred Schoof, composer
1948 – Patrika Darbo, American actress
1988 – Fabrice Muamba, Anglo-Congolese footballer

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Famous Deaths

1252 – Peter of Verona [Peter Martyr], Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45
1931 – Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer, dies at 73
1947 – Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture), dies at 50
1983 – Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered
1996 – Greer Garson, British actress (Goodbye Mr Chips, Mrs Miniver), dies at 92
2018 – Daniel Akaka, American educator and politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii), dies at 93

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Historical Events

1648 – Spanish troops and feudal barons strike down people’s uprising in Naples
1911 – Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer
1963 – Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
1979 – Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
1992 – “Search and Destroy” closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 performances
2019 – OKC guard Russell Westbrook becomes first player in NBA history to average a triple-double for the third consecutive season during the Thunder’s 123-110 win at home over Detroit Pistons

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Famous Birthdays

1816 – Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, born in Richmond, Kentucky (d. 1890)
1827 – Joseph Lister, British surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic surgery), born in Upton House, West Ham, England (d. 1912)
1857 – Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria (1879-86), born in Verona, Lombardy–Venetia (d. 1893)
1900 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (Woman of the Year, Adam’s Rib), born in Milwaukee (d. 1967)
1906 – Guy Clutton-Brock, English social worker (declared as national hero in Zimbabwe), born in Northwood, Middlesex (d. 1995)
1933 – Larry Felser, American sports columnist, born in Buffalo, New York (d. 2013)

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Famous Deaths

1258 – Julian of Cornillon/Liege, Flemish visionary/saint, dies
1811 – Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies
1976 – Howard Hughes, American reclusive billionaire, filmmaker and aviator, dies at 72
1984 – Robert Adams, English sculptor and designer, dies at 67
1991 – John Tower, (Sen-R-Tx), dies in a plane crash at 65
2005 – Debralee Scott, American actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman – “Cathy”; Angie), dies at 52

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Historical Events

1945 – The Holocaust: US forces liberate the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany, the first such camp to be liberated by the US Army
1988 – Mets set Opening Day record with 6 HRs
1991 – “Lucifer’s Child” opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 28 performances
1991 – Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
1998 – NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season
2020 – WrestleMania XXXVI, WWE Performance Center, Orlando FL, Part 1: The Undertaker defeats AJ Styles in a Boneyard match; Becky Lynch beats Shayna Baszler to retain Raw Women’s C’ship

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Famous Birthdays

1836 – Charles Jerome Hopkins, American composer, born in Burlington, Vermont (d. 1898)
1876 – Maurice de Vlaminck, Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow), born in Paris, France (d. 1958)
1933 – Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician (People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy), born in Amsterdam
1949 – Michael Fennelly, American musician (The Millennium, Crabby Appleton), born in New York, New York
1957 – Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director (The Other Side of Hope), born in Orimattila, Finland
1977 – Stephen Mulhern, English TV presenter, born in Stratford, London

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Famous Deaths

1617 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician and inventor (logarithms), dies from effects of gout at 67
1661 – Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (b. circa 1580)
1774 – Oliver Goldsmith, Irish novelist and dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 45
1862 – Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45
1919 – William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (Crookes-pipe, thallium), dies at 86
1986 – Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter, dies at 87

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