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Historical Events

37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor
1438 – Albrecht II of Habsburg becomes king of Germany
1532 – English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
1937 – Gas explosion in school in New London, Texas: 294 die
1959 – US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
1967 – Beatles’ “Penny Lane” single goes #1

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Famous Birthdays

1609 – Frederick III, King of Denmark and Norway (1648-70), born in Haderslev, Denmark (d. 1670)
1685 – Ralph Ersine, Scottish minister (d. 1752)
1838 – Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
1916 – Jody Gilbert, American actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 1979)
1927 – John Kander, composer (Cabaret, Funny Lady, Kramer vs Kramer), born in Kansas City, Missouri
1969 – Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player

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Famous Deaths

1745 – Robert Walpole, 1st British Prime Minister (Whig: 1721-42), dies at 68
1924 – Frederick Bridge, English organist and composer, dies at 79
1963 – Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)
1967 – Jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42
1976 – Robert de Roos, composer, dies at 69
1980 – “Grishata” Grigor Vachkov, Bulgarian actor (At Each Kilometer), dies at 47

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Historical Events

1190 – Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
1776 – British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1800 – British warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
1943 – F Hugh Herbert’s “Kiss and Tell” premieres in NYC
1976 – Rubin “Hurricane” Carter is retried
2019 – Facebook removes 1.5 million videos of the Christchurch mosque shootings in first 24 hrs after the attack, although only 1.2 million blocked at upload

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Famous Birthdays

1777 – Roger Brooke Taney, 5th Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court (Dred Scott decision), born in Calvert, Maryland (d. 1864)
1908 – Radie Britain, American composer, born near Silverton, Texas (d. 1994)
1932 – Dick Curless, singer/songwriter
1945 – Michael Hayden, General USAF, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1951 – Donald Findlay, Scottish lawyer
1965 – Caitlin Bilodeaux, US fencer (Olympic-92), born in Boston, Massachusetts

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Famous Deaths

1425 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu, 5th Japanese shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate, dies at 17
1861 – Petter Conrad Boman, Swedish composer, dies at 56
1902 – George William Warren, composer, dies at 73
1974 – Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect, dies at about 73
1990 – Rick Grech, British musician (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44
2005 – George F. Kennan, American Cold War strategist and historian (b. 1904)

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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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