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Historical Events

1910 – The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.
1947 – Robinson Jeffer’s “Medea” premieres in NYC
1955 – Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan
1973 – Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in “Have You Met Miss Dietz”
1976 – 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
1996 – Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series

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Famous Birthdays

1792 – Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer
1854 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet and adventurer (Illuminations), born in Charleville, France (d. 1891)
1918 – Anton Diffring [Alfred Pollack], German character actor (Assignment Vienna), born in Koblenz, Germany (d. 1989)
1961 – Les Stroud, Canadian survival expert (Survivorman), born in Etobicoke, Ontario
1967 – Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor
1972 – Will Greenwood, English rugby union player (Leicester Tigers, 2003 World Cup squad), born in Blackburn, Lancashire

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Famous Deaths

1819 – Lambert-Francois Godecharle, composer, dies at 66
1899 – Robert H “Bobby” Gunning, British colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle
1994 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Soviet director (Destiny of a Man, War and Peace), dies of a heart attack at 74
1996 – Bill Bedford, British test pilot (pioneered the development of V/STOL aircraft), dies at 75
2002 – Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
2014 – Lili Carati, Miss Italy 1975 and actress (Alcove), dies at 58

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Historical Events

1722 – Frenchman C Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher
1818 – US Government and Chickasaw Indians sign a treaty
1950 – UN forces enter Pyongyang, capital of North Korea
1967 – Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27′ 4 3/4″
1999 – “Believe” single released by Cher (Billboard Song of the Year 1999, Grammy Award Best Dance Recording 2000)
1999 – MLB National League Championship: Atlanta Braves beat New York Mets, 4 games to 2

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Famous Birthdays

1824 – Frantisek Pivoda, composer
1889 – Uncle Art Satherley, British-American record producer (1968 Academy of Country Music Award), born in Bristol, England (d. 1986)
1956 – Bruce Weber, American Basketball Coach, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1958 – John Bloom [Joe Bob Briggs], drive-in movie critic
1967 – Yoko Shimomura, Japanese composer
1984 – Thundercat [Stephen Bruner], American bass guitarist (Flying Lotus), born in Los Angeles, California

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Famous Deaths

1745 – Jonathan Swift, Irish author and satirist (Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal), dies at 77
1793 – Francesc Morera i Cots, Valencian composer, dies at 62
1921 – Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered
1961 – Benjamin Merkelbach, Dutch architect and city builder of Amsterdam, dies at 60
2003 – Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)
2007 – LaLa Brown, American singer (b. 1986)

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Historical Events

1873 – Columbia Princeton Rutgers and Yale set rules for collegiate football
1924 – Harold “Red” Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)
1944 – Allied generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery confer in Brussels, Belgium
1962 – James Watson (US), Francis Crick (UK) and Maurice Wilkins (UK) win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA
1973 – Nobel prize for Economic Sciences awarded to American Wassily Leontief
2000 – Zack de la Rocha announces he is leaving rock band Rage Against the Machine

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Famous Birthdays

1894 – H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
1931 – Catharina I “Ien” Dales, Dutch Internal minister (1989-94)
1965 – Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist (I Wonder Why), born in Bloise, Idaho
1973 – Demetrious Maxie, CFL defensive end (Toronto Argonauts)
1974 – Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1977 – Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer

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Famous Deaths

1744 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain, dies at 84
1770 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
1830 – Peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies
1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician/inventor (calculator), dies of renal failure at 79
1977 – Rolph Grant, West Indian cricketer (West Indian captain on 1939 England tour), dies at 67
1984 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (Voyagers!, Cover-up), dies by a gun loaded with blanks at 26

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Historical Events

1945 – Loyalty Day in Argentina, mass demonstrations held to release Juan Perón
1957 – Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley premieres in Memphis, Tennessee
1979 – US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education
1980 – 1st-class debut of Mike Whitney, NSW v Qld (2-52 and 1-39)
1991 – Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals and 744 assists)
2018 – Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch puppeteer Caroll Spinney leaves “Sesame Street” after 50 years

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Famous Birthdays

1582 – Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)
1711 – Jupiter Hammon, Lloyd Harbor NY, slave and poet, 1st African American to publish poetry
1884 – Lewis Bennison, American actor (The Road Called Straight), born in Oakland, California (d. 1929)
1914 – Albert Markos, Romanian composer (Torso I), born in Székelykeresztúr, Hungary (now Cristuru Secuiesc, Romania) (d. 1981)
1946 – James Ray Tucker, American rock guitarist (Turtles-Eleanor), born in Los Angeles, California
1971 – Byron Chamberlain, American football tight end (Denver Broncos, Minnesota Vikings), born in Honolulu, Hawaii

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Famous Deaths

1174 – Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
1312 – Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies
1836 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1967 – Henry Pu Yi, last emperor of China, dies at 61
1997 – Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54
2002 – Aileen Riggin, American diver (Olympic gold 3m springboard 1920, 24), dies at 96

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