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Historical Events

1642 – Battle at Turnham Green outside London: King Charles I vs English parliament
1864 – The new Constitution of Greece adopted
1937 – NBC forms first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1956 – US Supreme court rules race separation on buses in Alabama unconstitutional
1989 – Paul McCartney releases “Figure of 8” and “Ou Est Le Soleil”
1996 – “Three Sisters” closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC

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Famous Birthdays

1833 – Edwin Booth, American Shakespearean actor (Hamlet), born in Bel Air, Maryland (d. 1893)
1907 – Lewis Boddington, British aerospace engineer (RAE)
1947 – Joe Mantegna, American actor (House of Games, Weeds), born in Chicago, Illinois
1965 – Sheryl Boyle, Renfrew Ontario, kayaker (Olympics 1996)
1967 – Steve Christie, NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills)
1990 – Jibbs [Jovan Campbell], American rapper (Chain Hang Low), born in St. Louis, Missouri

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Famous Deaths

1620 – Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65
1977 – Ingrid Schubert, German terrorist (b. 1944)
1982 – Chesney Allen, English actor (Flanagan and Allen), dies at 88
2001 – Margaret “Peggy” Mount, British actress (Oliver!, Panic in the Parlor), dies following a stroke at 86
2013 – Barbara Lawrence, American model, actress, and real estate agent (Oklahoma!, A Letter to Three Wives), dies of kidney failure at 83
2016 – Leon Russell, American musician and singer-songwriter (Carny), dies at 74

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Historical Events

1921 – Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1936 – Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1936 – St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes and William O DeWitt
1970 – Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) killing up to 500,000, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded
1977 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1988 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

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Famous Birthdays

1916 – Paul Emery, British racing driver (d. 1993)
1943 – Wallace Shawn, American actor (My Dinner with Andre, Princess Bride), born in NYC, New York
1945 – Michael Bishop, American sci-fi author (Nebula, Stolen Faces)
1964 – Gerald Perry, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1968 – Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride), born in England, United Kingdom
1984 – Conrad Rautenbach, Zimbabwean rally driver, born in Harare, Zimbabwe

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Famous Deaths

1567 – Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, Marshal of France, dies at 74
1960 – John Trim, cricketer (occasional WI quick 1948-52, 18 wkts), dies
1981 – William Holden [Beedle], American actor (The Blue Knight, Sunset Boulevard, Sabrina, The Bridge on the River Kwai), slips on a rug and bleeds to death at 63
1995 – Curley Fox, fiddler, dies at 85
1997 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
2003 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest DSV), commits suicide at 27

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Historical Events

1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used.
1862 – Opera “La Forza Del Destino” is produced (St Petersburg Russia)
1918 – Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution
1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention of the Einstein refrigerator
1979 – Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center
2001 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they were traveling on top off.

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Famous Birthdays

1891 – Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (Boston Braves), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1954)
1903 – Charles Bruce Perry, Professor of Medicine (Bristol University) (d. 1996)
1912 – Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to Mexico), born in Laredo, Texas (d. 1999)
1918 – Stubby Kaye [Bernard Solomon Kotzin], American actor (Guys and Dolls, Lil’ Abner, Cat Ballou), born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)
1970 – Lee Battersby, Australian author
1974 – Phillip Ward, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)

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Famous Deaths

1831 – Nat Turner, slave rebel who led a violent insurrection in Virginia, hanged at 31
1942 – Anton Hendrik Blaauw, Dutch botanist (Perception of the Lichtes), dies at 60
1962 – Joseph Allen Jr, American actor (The Night Before the Divorce, Motor Madness), dies at 44
1993 – Erskine Hawkins, American trumpeter and composer (After Hours), dies at 79
1995 – Kenneth Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist, dies at 68
2010 – Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (b. 1911)

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Historical Events

1891 – 1st Women’s Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
1924 – Dion O’Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio’s gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
1938 – Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1945 – General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1978 – NY Yankees trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath and Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison and Griffin
1981 – “Oh, Brother!” opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 3 performances

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Famous Birthdays

1845 – John Thompson, 4th Prime Minister of Canada (C: 1892-94), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (d. 1894)
1888 – Andrej Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, born in Pustomazovo, Russia (d. 1972)
1935 – Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2004)
1948 – Aaron Brown, American broadcast journalist (World News Now), born in Hopkins, Minnesota
1952 – Pat Severs, American country singer (Pirates of Mississippi-Fred Jake), born in Camden, South Carolina
1981 – Tony Blanco, American baseball player (Washington Nationals), born in San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic

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Famous Deaths

901 – Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia
1981 – Abel Gance, French movie director (J’accuse), dies at 92
1984 – Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
1991 – Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Italian Colonies (1931-38), dies
1992 – Chuck Connors, American author, actor (The Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa), professional basketball and baseball player, dies at 71
1993 – Wensley Pithey, South-African actor (Oliver!, The Saint, Little Women), dies at 79

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