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Historical Events

1930 – 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1939 – “Ninotchka” with Greta Garbo premieres
1953 – KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1970 – The Goodies make their television debut on the BBC
2013 – María Gabriela Isler, a 25yo Venezuelan, is crowned Miss Universe 2013
2018 – Amid Californian forest fires US President Donald Trump accuses state forest management of “gross mismanagement”, threatens to withhold funding

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Famous Birthdays

1467 – Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelder and Earl of Zutphen, born in Grave, Netherlands (d. 1538)
1907 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, born in Potsdam, Germany (d. 1994)
1928 – Anne Sexton, American poet (Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967), born in Newton, Massachusetts (d. 1974)
1967 – Ricky Otto, English footballer, born in London
1973 – Nick Lachey, American singer, born in Harlan, Kentucky
1980 – James Harper, English footballer, born in Bell, California

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Famous Deaths

1492 – Jami [Mowlanā Nūr Od-dīn ʿabd Or-raḥmān Ebn Aḥmad], Persian poet (Lava’ih), dies at 78
1927 – Ole Olsen, Norwegian composer, dies at 77
1948 – Edgar Kennedy, American actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58
1998 – Ursula Reit [Reith], German actress (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), dies from natural causes at 84
2001 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator, dies at 77
2012 – Bill Tarmey, English actor (Coronation Street), dies at 71

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Historical Events

1701 – William Penn presents Charter of Privileges
1910 – William H. Frost receives the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer
1950 – A US aircraft shoots down a North Korean jet in the Korean War, the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history
1953 – Salazar’s party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal
1964 – IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion
1979 – The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed.

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Famous Birthdays

1572 – John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, Duke of Prussia (1618-19), born in Halle, Germany (d. 1619)
1592 – Domenico Mazzocchi, Italian Baroque composer, born in Civita Castellana, Italy (d. 1665)
1884 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (inkblot test – Rorschach test), born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1922)
1912 – June Havoc [Ellen Evangeline Hovick], Canadian-born American stage and screen actress, born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2010)
1966 – Michael Soles, CFL fullback (Montreal Alouettes), born in Pointe-Claire, Canada
1968 – Parker Posey, American actress (Tess Shelby-As the World Turns), born in Baltimore, Maryland

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Famous Deaths

1833 – Maximilian Stadler, Austrian pianist and composer and Benedictine monk, dies at 85
1905 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter, dies at 35
1941 – Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
1968 – Wendell Corey, American actor (Rear Window, 11th Hour, Peck’s Bad Girl), dies from a liver ailment at 54
1994 – Michael O’Donoghue, American comedy writer (SNL), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 54
2004 – Chandler Harper, American golfer (PGA C’ship 1950), dies of pneumonia at 90

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Historical Events

680 – 3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens
1929 – Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building in New York
1942 – First US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1954 – US spy plane shot down North of Japan
2019 – Song lyrics have gotten sadder says researchers who studied 50 years of lyrics at University of Exeter, published in journal “Evolutionary Human Sciences”
2019 – Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda, the “Terminator” is the to be convicted of sexual slavery by the International Criminal Court and is sentenced to 30 years in prison on 18 charges

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Famous Birthdays

1933 – George Tibbits, Australian composer, born in Boulder, Western Australia (d. 2008)
1955 – Detlef Ultsch, German judoka (Olympic bronze 1980), born in Sonneberg, Bezirk Suhl, East Germany
1955 – René Marie, American jazz singer (Sound of Red), born in Warrenton, Virginia
1963 – John Barnes, British football player, born in Kingston, Jamaica
1972 – Emily Lesueur, American synchronized swimmer (Olympic gold teams 1996), born in Glendale, California
1976 – One Be Lo [Ralond Scruggs], American hip-hop artist (Binary Star), born in Pontiac, Michigan

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Famous Deaths

1633 – Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (builder of the first submarine), dies
1944 – Richard Sorge, German spy for the Soviet Union in Tokyo during World War II, hanged in Tokyo at 49
1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in NYC
1974 – Sandra Rivett, English nanny to John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, allegedly bludgeoned to death by Mr Lucan at 29 before he mysteriously disappeared
1983 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (Le Marin du Bolivar), dies at 91
1986 – Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)

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Historical Events

1967 – US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9
1991 – The last oil fire in Kuwait set by retreating Iraqi troops is extinguished
2013 – 15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
2013 – 8 people are killed and 50 are injured by a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria
2018 – Great Britain’s Prince Charles calls slavery “an indelible stain” but stops short of an apology in a speech in Accra, Ghana
2018 – More than 200 mass graves containing thousands of victims of ISIS discovered in former ISIS held areas according to UN report

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Famous Birthdays

1659 – Theodor Schwartzkopff, German composer, born in Ulm, Germany (d. 1732)
1901 – Juanita Hall, American actress (South Pacific, Flower Drum Song), born in Keyport, New Jersey (d. 1968)
1940 – Dieter F. Uchtdorf, German aviator and religious leader (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), born in Moravská Ostrava
1965 – Brian Givens, American baseball pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers), born in Lompoc, California
1968 – Alfred Williams, American NFL defensive end (SF 49ers, Broncos-Super Bowl 32), born in Houston, Texas
1976 – Laurie Baker, American ice hockey forward (USA, Olympic-gold-98), born in Concord, Massachusetts

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Famous Deaths

1771 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (discovered Crab Nebula), dies at 75
1964 – Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (1951 Tour de France, dies at 39
1989 – Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (Detective Story), dies of cancer at 40
1991 – Andre Vandernoot, Flemish fluitist, conductor, dies at 64
2005 – Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress, dies of leukemia at 38
2011 – Mel Hancock, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri), dies at 82

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