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Historical Events

1620 – Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1918 – Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors
1927 – Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley, Vermont
1955 – First virus crystallized (announced)
1981 – Milwaukee Brewers future Baseball Hall of Fame reliever Rollie Fingers (6-3 record, 28 saves and 1.04 ERA) wins American League Cy Young Award, with 22 of 28 possible 1st-place votes
1993 – Greg Maddux becomes first pitcher since Sandy Koufax to win the National League’s Cy Young Award in successive MLB seasons and the first in successive seasons with different teams; Cubs 1992, Braves 1993

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Famous Birthdays

1826 – Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Kingsville, Ohio (d. 1867)
1914 – Hallgrímur Helgason, Icelandic novelist (Höfundur Íslands), born in Reykjavík, Iceland
1933 – Aneta Corsaut, Jutchinson Ks, actress (Helen Crump-Andy Griffith)
1943 – Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician (Pentangle), born in Glasgow (d. 2011)
1952 – Roseanne Barr, American comedienne and TV star (Roseanne), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
1981 – Vicente Matías Vuoso, Mexican soccer striker (15 caps; Santos Laguna), born in Mar Del Plata, Argentina

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Famous Deaths

1584 – Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan (1564-84), dies at 46
1643 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (Guldinus theorem), dies at 66
1793 – Olympe de Gouges [Marie Gouze], French playwright and revolutionary (Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen), executed by guillotine at 45
1969 – Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish soccer striker (16 caps; Fenerbahçe), dies at 71
1993 – John Lupton, American actor (Tom-Broken Arrow), dies at 65
1994 – Ralph Wyckoff, American scientist and pioneer of X-ray crystallography, dies at 97

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Historical Events

1722 – Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland
1813 – Treaty of Fulda signed in Germany after Battle of Leipzig
1949 – Netherland recognizes Indonesia as a sovereign state
1974 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1982 – Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
1993 – Rudy Giuliani wins the New York mayoral election, becomes 1st Republican mayor since 1965

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Famous Birthdays

1892 – Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Viktoria und ihr Huzar), born in Apatin, Austria-Hungary (d. 1960)
1926 – Myer Skoog, American basketball guard (NBA C’ship 1952-4; Minneapolis Lakers), born in Duluth, Minnesota (d. 2019)
1932 – Melvin Schwartz, American Physicist and Nobel Laureate (neutrinos – subatomic particles with no electric charge and virtually no mass), born in NYC, New York
1967 – Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician, born in The Hague, Netherlands
1980 – Diego Lugarno, Uruguayan soccer defender (95 caps; São Paulo, Fenerbahçe), born in Canelones, Uruguay
1980 – Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress, born in Seoul, South Korea

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Famous Deaths

1845 – Chretien Urhan, composer, dies at 55
1937 – Maude Valérie White, French-born English composer, dies at 82
1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist (Pygmalion, Nobel Prize for Literature 1925), dies at 94
1979 – Jacques Mesrine, French “enemy of the state”, shot to death
1991 – Irwin Allen, American director (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), dies at 75
1995 – Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Columbian politician (helped write Colombian Constitution), assassinated at 76

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Historical Events

1787 – First free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
1928 – Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km
1972 – Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick
1992 – New York City Marathon: Willie Mtolo of South Africa wins men’s race, 2:09:29; Australian Lisa Ondieki women’s champion, 2:24:40
2003 – University of Pittsburgh wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald establishes a new NCAA record with a touchdown reception in his 14th straight game as Pittsburgh beats Boston College, 24-13 at Alumni Stadium
2012 – 46th Country Music Association Award: Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert wins

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Famous Birthdays

1860 – Boies Penrose, American politician (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (1897-1921)), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1921)
1896 – Edmund Blunden, English poet and critic (Undertones of War), born in London (d. 1974)
1898 – Sippie Wallace [Beulah Belle Thomas], American blues singer, (Women Be Wise), born in Plumb Bayou, Arkansas (d. 1986)
1961 – Anne Donovan, Basketball Hall of Fame center and coach (Olympic gold 1984, 88; coach 2008), born in Ridgewood, New Jersey (d. 2018)
1978 – Mary Kate Schellhardt, American actress (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape), born in Chicago, Illinois
1983 – Yuko Ogura, Japanese model, born in Mobara, Chiba, Japan

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Famous Deaths

1711 – Christian Demelius, composer, dies at 68
1947 – Man o’ War, American thoroughbred racehorse (Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes 1920), dies from a heart attack at 30
1995 – Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53
2004 – Terry Knight, American rock producer and singer (Grand Funk Railroad), murdered at 61
2007 – S. Ali Raza, Bollywood Screenwriter (b. 1922)
2017 – Ray Robinson, American magazine editor and biographer (Lou Gehrig), dies of a stroke at 96

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Historical Events

802 – Empress Irene of Byzantium driven out
1756 – Giacomo Casanova escapes from prison in Venice by climbing onto the roof
1863 – The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato
1932 – Greek government of Venizelos falls
1953 – TV broadcasting begins in Belgium
1982 – “Rock ‘n Roll!: The 1st…” closes at St James NYC after 9 performances

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Famous Birthdays

1291 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet, born in Paris (d. 1361)
1941 – Derek Bell, British racing driver, born in Pinner, Middlesex, England
1941 – Lucas Brown Jackson, American basketball player (Olympic gold 1964), born in San Marcos, Texas
1957 – Robert Pollard, American rocker (Guided by Voices), born in Dayton, Ohio
1970 – Craig Kelly, English actor (Queer as Folk, Coronation Street), born in Lytham St Annes, England
1994 – Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor (The Final Cut)

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Famous Deaths

1977 – Joan Tetzel, American actress (Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning), dies of cancer at 56
1994 – John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian and director of British Museum (1974-76), dies at 80
2005 – John “Beatz” Holohan, American drummer (Bayside), dies in an auto accident at 31
2009 – Tom Wheatcroft, English businessman and car collector (Donington Grand Prix Collection ), dies at 87
2012 – Brian Cobby, British actor (Evita, The Nudist Story) and the first male voice of the British speaking clock, dies from health complications at 83
2018 – Willie McCovey, American Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman (6 x MLB All Star; NL MVP 1969; NL home run leader 1963, 68, 69; SF Giants), dies of an infection at 80

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