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Historical Events

1908 – French brothers Amadee and Jean Bouyssonie discover the fossil remains of a nearly complete 60,000 year-old Neanderthal man ‘Old man of La Chappelle’ at La Chappelle-aux-Saints, France
1914 – Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German Army leading to their invasion hours later
1957 – British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
1966 – South African government bans Beatle records
1970 – Hurricane “Celia” becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
1974 – “Little Night Music” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 601 performances

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Famous Birthdays

1855 – Joe Hunter, English cricket wicket-keeper (5 Tests, 11 dismissals; Yorkshire CCC), born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England (d. 1891)
1887 – Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (Lithuania, The Soldier), born in Rugby, England (d. 1915)
1902 – Regina Jonas, German first woman rabbi, born in Berlin, German Empire (d. 1944)
1929 – Bethel Leslie, American entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap), born in NYC, New York (d. 1999)
1940 – Lance Alworth, American NFL hall of famer (Charger, Cowboys), born in Houston, Texas
1984 – Sunil Chetri, Indian footballer (Bengaluru FC), born in Secunderabad, India

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Famous Deaths

1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
1823 – Jacob Abraham de Mist, Dutch statesman, dies at 74
1973 – Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
1990 – Florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79
2006 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Austro-British soprano (Der Rosenkavalier), dies at 90
2017 – Theodore “Ted” Stanley, American anesthesiologist and medical entrepreneur (created the fentanyl lollipop), dies at 77

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Historical Events

1914 – Belgian government receives German ultimatum
1921 – Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox
1967 – New Orleans Saints play 1st ever pre-season game, lose to LA Rams 16-7 at Anaheim Stadium
1999 – “The Sixth Sense”, starring Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, and Haley Joel Osment, premieres
2012 – American swimmer Rebecca Soni becomes first woman to win the 200m breaststroke twice with a world record 2:19.59 at the London Olympics
2013 – Carl Icahn sues computer giant Dell in an attempt to derail a buyout bid by the CEO, Michael Dell

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Famous Birthdays

1931 – Viliam Schrojf, Slovak footballer, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2007)
1941 – Homer Banks, American singer and songwriter (Be What You Are), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 2003)
1945 – Joanna Cassidy [Joanna Virginia Caskey], American actress (Blade Runner, Under Fire), born in Haddonfield, New Jersey
1970 – Tony Amonte, American NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks, USA), born in Hingham, Massachusetts
1972 – Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer, born in Rzeszow, Poland
1972 – Jimmy Pop, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang), born in Trappe, Pennsylvania

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Famous Deaths

1075 – John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies
1511 – Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader
1611 – Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
1936 – Louis Blériot, French aviator who made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft, dies of a heart attack at 64
1963 – Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, American anthropologist and novelist, dies at 61
1995 – Brian Smith, British sportscaster, dies

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Historical Events

1834 – Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire – Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect
1838 – Apprenticeship system abolished in most of the British Empire. Former slaves no longer indentured to former owners.
1869 – 1st voyage down Colorado River
1955 – 1st microgravity research begins
1981 – Poland premier Jagielski resigns
2014 – Indiana Pacers NBA super-star Paul George suffers a gruesome compound fracture of his lower right leg in a Team USA scrimmage

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Famous Birthdays

1555 – Edward Kelley, British spirit medium and Renaissance occultist, born in Worcester, England (d. 1597)
1659 – Antoine Mouque, Flemish composer and organist and singer, born in Ostend (d. 1723)
1889 – Walther Gerlach, German physicist who, with Otto Stern, co-discovered spin quantization in a magnetic field (Stern–Gerlach effect), born in Biebrich, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany (d. 1979)
1924 – Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist who invented and developed subatomic particle detectors (Nobel 1992), born in Paris, France (d. 2010)
1963 – Amber Rudd, British politician, Home Secretary (2016-18), born in London, England
1973 – Les Hill, Australian actor (Underbelly), born in Randwick, Australia

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Famous Deaths

1813 – Carl Stenborg, Swedish composer, dies at 60
1895 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzugs), dies at 77
1980 – Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
1992 – Chico Alvarez, trumpeteer (Stan Kenton Orchestra), dies of cancer at 72
1996 – Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99
1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)

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Historical Events

1970 – Daniel O’Hagan (19), a Catholic civilian, is shot dead by the British Army during a serious riot in the New Lodge Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland
1992 – Hungarian swimmer Krisztina Egerszegi earns her 3rd gold medal of the Barcelona Olympics winning 200m backstroke for the 100-200 double along with 400m I/M gold
1994 – Phil Rizzuto (Yanks) and Steve Carlton (Phils) enter the Hall of Fame
2006 – Fidel Castro temporarily hands over power to brother Raúl Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequeña Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated.
2016 – British Open Women’s Golf, Woburn: Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand wins by 3 from Mo Martin and Mirim Lee
2019 – US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for the first time since 2008 by 0.25%

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Famous Birthdays

1887 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1969)
1905 – Trenchard Cox, British museum director, born in London (d. 1995)
1929 – José Santamaría, Uruguayan soccer defender (Uruguay 20, Spain 16 caps; Real Madrid), born in Montevideo, Uruguay
1933 – Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer and journalist (Rituelen), born in The Hague, Netherlands
1969 – Richard Griffith, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1979 – Jade Kwan, Hong Kong singer, born in Hong Kong

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Famous Deaths

1653 – Thomas Dudley, British colonial governor of Massachusetts, dies at 76
1895 – Richard Morris Hunt, American architect and educator, dies at 67
1977 – Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20
1996 – Joan Warburton, Scottish painter, dies at 76
2001 – Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
2012 – Gore Vidal, American author (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln), dies from pneumonia at 86

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