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Historical Events

1908 – Cleveland Naps and future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Addie Joss hurl a classic perfect game, beating Ed Walsh and the Chicago White Sox 1-0
1910 – Henry Wijnmalen flies to an altitude of 2,800 meters, setting a world record
1972 – Montreal Expos pitcher Bill Stoneman no-hits the New York Mets 7-0 at Parc Jarry, the first MLB no-hitter ever pitched in Canada
1977 – Austrian Ferrari driver Niki Lauda finishes fourth in the US Grand Prix East at Watkins Glen to clinch his second Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship, while Englishman James Hunt wins the race
1988 – In a season-ending 7-5 win in St. Louis, NY Mets outfielder Kevin McReynolds sets an MLB record by stealing 21 bases without being caught during the season

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Famous Birthdays

1832 – Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (Primitive Culture), born in London (d. 1917)
1873 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland), born in Savage, Maryland (d. 1938)
1879 – Wallace Stevens, American poet (Ideas of Order), born in Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 1955)
1933 – Dimiter Khristov, Bulgarian composer, born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 2017)
1963 – Keith Bradshaw, Australian cricket administrator (Secretary and Chief Executive Marylebone Cricket Club; CEO South Australian Cricket), born in Hobart, Australia (d. 2021)

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Famous Deaths

1564 – Andreas Vesalius [Andries van Wesel], Flemish physician and anatomist (De humani corporis fabrica), dies after being shipwrecked at 49
1892 – Ernest Renan, French philosopher, historian and scholar of religion, dies at 69
1916 – Benjamin Kidd, English sociologist (Social Evolution), dies of heart disease at 58
1958 – Marie Stopes, British birth control pioneer, dies at 77
1970 – Bo Linde, Swedish neo-classical composer, dies at 37

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Historical Events

1606 – Spanish troops under Spinola occupy Fort Rhine Birch
1958 – Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia
1979 – Nigeria adopts a constitution, and Alhaji Shagari becomes president
1981 – US’s largest private investment bank, Salomon Brothers, is sold to commodities trader Phibro Corporation for $483 million
1990 – Meteorite explodes above Pacific Ocean

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Famous Birthdays

1901 – Jimmie Reese, American baseball infielder and coach (LA Angels Hall of Fame), born in New York City (d. 1994)
1967 – Mike Pringle, American Canadian Football Hall of Fame running back (CFL MOP 1995, 98; Montreal Alouettes), born in Los Angeles, California
1972 – Danielle Scott-Arruda, American volleyball middle blocker (International Volleyball HOF; Olympic silver 2008, 12), born in Baton Rouge Louisiana
1981 – Deborah James, British teacher, journalist, author (You, Me and the Big C), and charity campaigner, born in London, England (d. 2022)
1986 – Jurnee Smollett-Bell, American actress (Lovecraft Country), born in New York City

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Famous Deaths

1500 – John Alcock, English bishop and chancellor (founded Jesus College, Cambridge), dies at about 70
1901 – Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1880-1901)
1947 – Olive Borden, “the Joy Girl,” American silent film and stage actress (Chloe, Love Is Calling You; 3 Bad Men, Fig Leaves), dies of a stomach ailment and pneumonia at 40
1979 – Roy Harris, American composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home: An American Overture), dies at 81
2019 – Karel Gott, Czech singer ‘Sinatra of the East’, dies at 80

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Historical Events

1520 – Suleiman the Magnificent succeeds his father, Selim I, as Ottoman Sultan and rules until 1566
1965 – LA Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins his 13th straight game, 7 of which are shutouts
1984 – The Kansas City Chiefs set a team record by registering 11 sacks against the Cleveland Browns in a 10-6 victory
1986 – US releases Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
2012 – Car bomb blasts kill at least 32 people across Iraq

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Famous Birthdays

1800 – Decimus Burton, British architect (Hyde Park, Palm House Kew Gardens), born in London, England (d. 1881)
1917 – Yuri “Petrovich” Lyubimov, Soviet director (Taganka Theatre), born in Yaroslavl, Russia (d. 2014)
1933 – Emily “Cissy” Houston (née Drinkard), American Grammy Award-winning soul and gospel singer, and Whitney’s mother, born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2024)
1943 – Jody Powell, American White House press secretary for Jimmy Carter, born in Cordele, Georgia (d. 2009)
1963 – Cristina Marsillach, Spanish actress (Barocco), born in Madrid, Spain

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Famous Deaths

1581 – Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
1986 – Storm Jameson, English writer and critic, dies at 95
2004 – Justin Strzelczyk, American NFL football offensive tackle, 1990-98 (Pittsburgh Steelers), dies in high speed car crash while being pursued by police at 36; autopsy revealed brain damage due to chronic concussion injuries
2014 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (1995 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovery of the tau lepton particle), dies from a heart attack at 87
2017 – Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (homotopy theory, motivic cohomology), dies of an aneurysm at 51

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Historical Events

1227 – Pope Gregory IX excommunicates German emperor Frederick II
1789 – US War Department establishes a regular army
1927 – Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games in New York’s 7-4 win against the Philadelphia A’s and 15-4 rout of the Washington Senators
1957 – NFL NY Giants play their last game at the Polo Grounds, a 9-1 loss to Pittsburgh
2001 – Farm Aid 14 held in Noblesville, Indiana; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Doobie Brothers, and Martina McBride

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Famous Birthdays

1893 – Phillips Tead, American character actor (The Front Page; Lightnin’; Fighting Blade; The Adventures of Superman – “Professor Pepperwinkle”), born in Somerville, Massachusetts (d. 1974)
1928 – Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury, English politician and human rights advocate (Liberal MP for Orpington 1962-70), born in Orpington, England (d. 2016)
1956 – James Donald Halsell Jr, American retired USAF officer and astronaut (STS 65, 74, 83, 94), born in West Monroe, Louisiana
1970 – Emily Lloyd [Pack], British actress (Wish You Were Here; Cookie; In Country), born in London, England
1972 – Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer (Jeremy “Jez” Usborne- “Peep Show”), born in Boston, Lincolnshire

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Famous Deaths

1598 – Floris van Pallandt, Dutch Count of Culemborg, dies at about 61
1951 – Bradley Barker, American silent actor and film director, dies at 68
1989 – August A. “Gussie” Busch Jr., American brewing magnate (chairman Anheuser-Busch 1946-75) and baseball executive (owner St. Louis Cardinals 1953-89), dies at 90
2008 – Hayden Carruth, American poet (The Crow and the Heart), dies at 87
2019 – Larry Willis, American jazz pianist and composer, dies of an aneurysm at 76

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