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Historical Events

1960 – Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
1967 – Brendan Behan’s “Borstal Boy” premieres in Dublin
1976 – Giant’s Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey opens with the NY Giants going down 24–14 to the Dallas Cowboys in from of 76,042 fans
1978 – Yanks and Dodgers play in World Series # 75
1995 – Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
2010 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, TPC Potomac: Mark O’Meara wins his lone Champions Tour major title with par on first playoff hole against Michael Allen

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Famous Birthdays

1819 – Zebulon York, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Avon, Maine (d. 1900)
1919 – Gerry Gomez, West Indian cricketer (post-war WI all-rounder), born in Trinidad (d. 1996)
1946 – Naoto Kan, Japanese politician (61st Prime Minister of Japan), born in Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
1968 – Nancy Brookhart, American WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17th-1994), born in Elmhurst, Illinois
1972 – Yinka Dare, Nigerian NBA center (NJ Nets), born in Kano, Nigeria (d. 2004)
1974 – Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentine footballer (Internazionale), born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina

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Famous Deaths

1765 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, dies at 77
1797 – Carter Braxton, American plantation owner and signer of the US Declaration of Independence, dies at 61
1893 – Lip Pike, American baseball player, dies at 48
1979 – Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
1996 – Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist, dies at 65
2004 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time), dies of an adverse reaction to an antibiotic at 52

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Historical Events

1915 – Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York
1953 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution
1961 – World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
1994 – Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)
2014 – Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus
2017 – American economist Richard Thaler is awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics

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Famous Birthdays

1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler, born in Parma, Italy (d. 1288)
1884 – Martin Elmer Johnson, American adventurer and filmmaker, born in Rockford, Illinois (d. 1937)
1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist (Pentecostal), born in South-West Oxford, Canada (d. 1944)
1925 – Robert Finch, American politician (8th U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare), born in Tempe, Arizona (d. 1995)
1935 – Paul Beers, Dutch actor (Mother Courage and Her Children)
1935 – Tibor Fátyol, Hungarian composer, born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (d. 2017)

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Famous Deaths

1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1912 – Millie and Christine McCoy, American Siamese twins born slaves, die at 61
1990 – Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of heart attack at 83
1994 – Raich Carter, English soccer forward (13 caps; Sunderland, Derby County, Hull C) and manager (Hull C, Leeds, Mansfield Town, Middlesborough), dies from a stroke at 80
1997 – Arthur Tracy, American radio personality (The Street Singer), dies at 98
2016 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (Ashes and Diamonds, Man of Iron), dies at 90

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Historical Events

1955 – World’s most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga, launched
1962 – Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes article “Bedingt abwehrbereit” (“Conditionally prepared for defense”) about NATO manoeuver called “Fallex 62”, uncovering sorry state of West German army. Magazine soon accused of treason.
1963 – Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
1965 – Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest building in England
1972 – Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended
2016 – 140 people are killed in an air strike during a wake in Sanaa, Yemen

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Famous Birthdays

1828 – Francisque Sarcey, French writer (Le Temps), born in Dourdan, France (d. 1899)
1837 – Otto Winter-Hjelm, Norwegian musician and composer, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1931)
1883 – Dick Burnett, American musician (Man of Constant Sorrow), born in Monticello, Kentucky (d. 1977)
1918 – Ron Randell, Australian actor (Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2005)
1949 – Hamish Stuart, Scottish guitarist and singer (Average White Band), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1952 – Edward Zwick, American film director (Shakespeare in Love), born in Chicago, Illinois

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Famous Deaths

1651 – Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55
1659 – Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary
1970 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934)
1994 – Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55
1996 – Watkins Shaw, British musicologist, dies at 85
1997 – Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66

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Historical Events

1922 – First radio link, WNJ (Newark) and WGY (Senectady) link for World Series
1922 – Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm’s of Austria
1926 – Italian Great Fascist Council forms
1927 – Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1944 – Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums
1961 – 15th NHL All-Star Game, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: All-Stars beat Chicago Black Hawks, 3-1

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Famous Birthdays

1728 – Caesar Rodney, Delaware, judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1929 – Harold Zirin, American astronomer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
1931 – Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa and 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Klerksdorp, Western Transvaal, South Africa
1952 – Vladimir Putin, Russian politician (President and Prime Minister), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union
1952 – Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer (Australian capt in 7 Tests, won 1 lost 6), born in Balwyn, Australia
1974 – Shannon MacMillan, American soccer forward (Olympics 1996), born in Syosset, New York

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Famous Deaths

1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer, dies at about 53
1571 – Müezzinzade Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in the Battle of Lepanto
1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
1950 – Willis Carrier, American engineer (developed modern air conditioning), dies at 73
2007 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle road racer, dies in road accident at 32
2009 – Shelby Singleton, American record label owner and producer (Smash Records, Mercury Records), dies of brain cancer at 77

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