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Historical Events

1863 – -7] After 59 day siege Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties)
1876 – Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina
1939 – World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
1958 – US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1992 – Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86)
2012 – 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey

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Famous Birthdays

1876 – Willem Adriaan Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race and Crime), born in Amsterdam (d. 1940)
1908 – Anthony Wagner, Officer of Arms at the College of Arms in London (d. 1995)
1917 – George Mann, English cricketer, born in Byfleet, Surrey, England (d. 2001)
1926 – Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, born in Hitzacker, Germany (d. 2002)
1955 – Carl E. Walz, American NASA astronaut (STS 51, 65, 79), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1970 – Torrance Small, American NFL wide receiver (New Orleans Saints), born in Tampa, Florida

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Famous Deaths

1780 – William Allen, Mayor of Philadelphia, dies at 76
1962 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
1966 – Luigi Perrachio, Italian composer, dies at 83
1997 – Philippe Rossillon, administrator, dies at 66
1999 – René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
2019 – Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean revolutionary, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (1980-87) and 1st black President of Zimbabwe (1988-2017), dies at 95

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Historical Events

1877 – Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
1915 – Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
1955 – WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 – 11 Israeli athletes taken hostage and later killed by Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics
1996 – Following US cruise missile strikes on Iraq, crude oil prices rise as the market speculates when Iraq will begin exporting oil under UN Resolution 986
1997 – Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game

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Famous Birthdays

1809 – Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (851-61), born in Petorca, Chile (d. 1880)
1826 – John Wisden, England cricketer (prominent Sussex player), born in Brighton, Sussex, England (d. 1884)
1827 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer, born in Genoa, Italy (d. 1849)
1912 – John Cage, American composer (Imaginary Landscape No 1/O’O), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1992)
1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress and singer (Myra Breckenridge; 1,000,000 BC; 100 Rifles), born in Chicago, Illinois
1954 – Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive, born in Utah

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Famous Deaths

1910 – Julian Edwards, American composer, dies at 54
1926 – Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the “DAP”, which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
1969 – Mitchell Ayres, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
1999 – Katie Webster [Kathyrne Jewel Thorne], American boogie pianist (The Swamp Boogie Queen), dies of a heart attack at 63
2015 – [Frederick] Dennis Greene, American singer (Sha Na Na), dies from cancer at 66
2017 – Holger Czukay [Holger Schüring], German musician (Can), dies at 79

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Historical Events

1899 – 8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay Alaska
1932 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Keller GC: Olin Dutra wins the first of 2 major titles, beating Frank Walsh, 4 and 3
1947 – Champion Middlesex cricket batsman Denis Compton scores 101 for South of England in tour match defeat to South Africa at Lord’s; his record 17th century of the English season
1978 – Jerry Lewis’ 13th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $29,074,405
1979 – Iran army conquers Baneh
1981 – Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC

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Famous Birthdays

1932 – Bevo Francis, American basketball player (college basketball record scorer), born in Hammondsville, Ohio (d. 2015)
1951 – Judith Ivey, American actress (Lady in Red, Hello Again), born in El Paso, Texas
1962 – Ulla Tørnæs, Danish politician, born in Esbjerg, Denmark
1963 – John Vanbiesbrouck, American NHL goalie (Team USA, Florida), born in Detroit, Michigan
1966 – Bireli Lagrene, French jazz guitarist, born in Alsace, France
1979 – Kristina Krepela, Croatian actress, born in Zagreb, Croatia

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Famous Deaths

799 – Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam, dies at 53
1960 – Alfred E Green, director (Copacabana), dies after long illness at 71
1979 – Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (b. 1904)
1994 – Laurens van Deenen, Dutch biochemist, dies at 66
1997 – Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1931)
2009 – Iain Cuthbertson, Scottish actor (Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger UXB), dies at 79

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Historical Events

1940 – Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary and Red Cross
1964 – 2nd incident that year of race riots in Singapore between Chinese and Malay, 13 people killed, 106 injured
1966 – 24th World SF Convention honors Gene Roddenberry
2001 – In just his 11th start, St. Louis Cardinals’ rookie pitcher Bud Smith no-hits the San Diego Padres, 4-0
2007 – Panama Canal’s “Third Set of Locks” expansion project begins with a huge initial explosion under Paraíso Hill that is watched by thousands of people
2017 – Governor of California Jerry Brown issues state of emergency due to La Tuna brush fire near Los Angeles

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Famous Birthdays

1902 – Mantan Moreland, American actor and comedian (Charlie Chan, Spirit of Youth), born in Monroe, Louisiana (d. 1973)
1923 – Fred Hawkins, American golfer (US Masters 1958 runner-up), born in Antioch, Illinois (d. 2014)
1923 – Herbert Binkert, German soccer striker (12 caps Saarland; FC Saarbrücken), born in Karlsruhe, Germany (d. 2020)
1935 – Dorothy Masuka, Zimbabwe-born South African jazz singer and activist, born in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (d. 2019)
1956 – Hans-Georg Beyer, East German team handball player (Olympic gold 1980), born in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
1988 – Carla Suárez Navarro, Spanish tennis player (2 WTA, 6 ITF titles), born in Las Palmas, Spain

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Famous Deaths

1871 – Vaclav Horak, Czech composer, dies at 71
1962 – E. E. Cummings, American poet (Tulips and Chimneys), dies at 67
1985 – John Herbert McDowell, American composer for ballet, TV and the stage, dies at 58
2000 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (Escape to Athena), dies at 86
2006 – Annemarie Wendl, German actress (Lindenstraße, Der Seitensprung), dies at 91
2007 – Carter Albrecht, American musician, dies in a gun accident at 34

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