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Historical Events

1862 – Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9
1960 – Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy in a speech at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
1964 – Mary Rand of Great Britain leaps a world record 6.76m to win the women’s long jump gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
1969 – Race riots in Springfield, Massachusetts
1973 – 42 year old future Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder Willie Mays’ last MLB career hit, as NY Mets beat A’s, 10-7 in World Series Game 2 in Oakland
1995 – Atlanta Braves become 1st team to sweep in NL playoff (beat Reds)

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Famous Birthdays

1404 – Marie of Anjou, Queen of France (1422-61), born in Angers, France (d. 1463)
1643 – Bahādur Shah I, 7th Mughal Emperor of India, born in Burhanpur, Mughal Empire (d. 1712)
1738 – Giovanni Zanotti, Italian composer, born in Bologna (d. 1817)
1940 – J. C. Snead, American golfer (8 PGA Tour titles; Masters 1973 runner-up), born in Hot Springs, Virginia
1967 – Dave Hajek, infielder (Houston Astros), born in Roseville, California
1981 – Boof Bonser, American baseball player

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Famous Deaths

1669 – Antonio Cesti, Italian composer, singer and musician, dies at 46
1703 – Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634)
1983 – Paul Fix, American actor (Rifleman), dies of kidney failure at 82
1999 – Richard B Shull, American character actor (Diana, Holmes and Yoyo), dies at 70
2008 – Richard Cooey, American murderer and rapist (executed) (b. 1967)
2012 – Kyle Bennett, American BMX racer, dies in a traffic collision at 33

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Historical Events

1724 – Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier’s letters
1964 – US sweeps medals in the men’s 200m backstroke at the Tokyo Olympics; Jed Graef swims world record 2:10.3 to win gold ahead of teammates Gary Dilley and Bob Bennett
1967 – First American Basketball Association (ABA) game is played with Oakland Oaks beating Anaheim Amigos, 132-129; red, white and blue ball and 3-point field goal introduced
1970 – A man dies in a premature bomb explosion in Dublin, Republic of Ireland
1984 – John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million
1989 – Bob Quinn resigns as NY Yankee VP/GM and replaced by Harding Peterson

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Famous Birthdays

1783 – Frantiszek Sołtyk, Polish composer, born in Piastów, Poland (d. 1865)
1853 – Maria “Beppie” Bakker, Dutch actress and wife of Piet Vink Senior (d. 1949)
1876 – Rube Waddell, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Triple Crown, AL wins leader 1905; ERA leader 1900, 05; strikeout leader 1902–07; Philadelphia A’s), born in Bradford, Pennsylvania (d. 1914)
1954 – Claude Ribbe, French historian and writer, born in Paris
1970 – Paul Potts, British opera singer and winner of Britain’s Got Talent 2007, born in Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, England
1973 – Peter Dumbreck, Scottish race car driver, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland

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Famous Deaths

1788 – Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
1795 – William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier, dies
1819 – Giovanni Battista Gaiani, Italian organist and composer, dies at 61
1979 – Rebecca Clarke, British-American violist and classical composer (Morpheus), dies at 93
1996 – Henri Nannen, journalist, dies at 82
2016 – Gerhard Wimberger, Austria composer (Glove), dies at 93

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Historical Events

1609 – Children’s rhyme “Three Blind Mice” published in London
1730 – Christian VI succeeds Frederik IV as king of Denmark
1862 – JEB Stuart completes his “second ride around McClellan”
1920 – Cleveland Indians beat Bkln Dodgers, 5 games to 2 in 17th World Series
1976 – Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party
1979 – Typhoon Tip becomes the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded with peak sustained winds of 305km/h (190mph) and a wind diameter of 2,220km (1,380mi)

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Famous Birthdays

1855 – August Sauer, Austrian literature historian (Euphorion), born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria (d. 1926)
1891 – Edith Stein, German philosopher and Discalced Carmelite nun (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), born in Breslau (Silesia), Germany (d. 1942)
1903 – Josephine Hutchinson, American actress (Story of Louis Pasteur), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1998)
1935 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian operatic tenor (Oh Giorgio, The Three Tenors), born in Modena, Italy (d. 2007)
1942 – Daliah Lavi [Levinbuck], Israeli actress (Casino Royale, Lord Jim), born in Haifa, British Palestine (d. 2017)
1968 – Charles Anthony, American CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts), born in Las Vegas, Nevada

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Famous Deaths

638 – Honorius I, [dux plebis], Italian Pope, dies
1941 – Harry Micajah Daugherty, American politician, lawyer and political manager accused of corruption, dies at 81
1983 – Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia journalist/dissident, dies at 61
1989 – Franco, [Francis Luambo/”Makiadi”], Zaire composer/music, dies at 51
1998 – Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2007 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)

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Historical Events

1776 – Brigadier-General Arnold’s Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British during the Battle of Valcour Island (American Revolutionary War)
1863 – Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson’s Mill, Tennessee
1906 – White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game
1960 – Radio/TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers
1985 – President Reagan bans import of South African Krugerrands to the USA
1997 – Dennis Rodman returns from second longest NBA suspension (11 games)

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Famous Birthdays

1675 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and theologian, born in Norwich, England (d. 1729)
1835 – Hunter McGuire, American physician and Med Director (Confederate Army), born in Winchester, Virginia (d. 1900)
1871 – Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian Christian leader who founded the evangelical Brunstad Christian Church, born in Fredrikstad, Norway (d. 1943)
1884 – Sig Ruman [Siegfried Albon Rumann], German-American actor (Schultz-Life With Luigi), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1967)
1956 – Nicanor Frutos, 47th President of Paraguay (2003-08), born in Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay
1961 – Amr Diab, Egyptian singer (Leily Nehary), born in Port Said, Egypt

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Famous Deaths

1809 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer, soldier and public administrator who helped lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies of gunshot wounds at 35 under mysterious circumstances that could have been murder or suicide along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee at an inn called Grinder’s Stand
1962 – Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg, Austrian botanist who was one of three scientists (also Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns) who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel’s work on the laws of genetics, dies at 90
1984 – K. M. Rangnekar, Indian cricketer (33 runs at 5 50 for India), dies at 67
1988 – Wayland Flowers, ventriloquist (Madame), dies of AIDS at 48
2002 – Dina Pathak [Ghandi], Indian Gujarati theatre actress, director and activist (President-National Federation of Indian Women), dies of a heart attack at 80
2006 – Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)

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