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Today in History for 7th June 2018

Historical Events

1340 – Rotterdam Netherlands founded
1527 – Pope Clement VII surrenders to Emperor Charles V’s armies
1905 – Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814)
1924 – 56th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Mad Play wins in 2:18.8
1987 – 86th Men’s French Open: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (7-5, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6)
1991 – Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time

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Famous Birthdays

1897 – George Szell, Hungarian-born American conductor (Cleveland Orchestra, 1946-70), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1970)
1909 – Jessica Tandy, British actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included), born in London, England (d. 1994)
1925 – Camille Flammarion, French astronomer/writer (Thunder and Lightning)
1933 – Henk E Koning, Dutch sect of Finances (VVD)
1935 – Thomas Kailath, American engineer
1973 – Robert Barr, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)

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Famous Deaths

1555 – Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76
1654 – Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright and actor (L’adamo), dies at 76
1863 – Franz Xaver Gruber, composer (“Silent Night”), dies at 75
1976 – Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orchestra leader (Air time ’57), dies at 61
1993 – Drazen Petrovic, NBA player (NJ Nets), dies in auto-accident at 28
1995 – Joseph Tomelty, Irish actor and playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick, Melba), dies at 85

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Famous Deaths for 6th June 2018

1881 – Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61
1898 – Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62
1917 – Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59
1951 – Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
1974 – Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at 86
1992 – Larry Riley, American actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39
1993 – Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73
1994 – Mark McManus, actor (Ned Kelly), dies of pneumonia at 59
2005 – Dana Elcar, American actor (Peter Thornton- MacGyver), dies of pneumonia at 77
2013 – Jerome Karle, American chemist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 94

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Famous Birthdays for 6th June 2018

1519 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician and botanist, born in Arezzo, Italy (d. 1603)
1576 – Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman, born in Lucca, Italy (d. 1649)
1826 – Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist
1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition, born in Plymouth, England (d. 1912)
1872 – Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918)
1918 – Tom Scott, poet/editor
1968 – Alan Licht, American guitarist, composer and journalist
1973 – Jon Hesse, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1987 – Daniel Logan, New Zealand actor (Boba Fett-Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones), born in Auckland, New Zealand
1987 – Rubin Okotie, Austrian footballer

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Historical Events for 6th June 2018

1885 – 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43
1936 – 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1949 – Orapin Chaiyakan becomes the first Thai woman to be elected to the Parliament of Thailand
1966 – Stokely Carmichael launches “Black Power” movement
1967 – Israeli troops occupy Gaza during second day of the Six-Day War
1974 – 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
1983 – 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins and Roy Acuff
1985 – Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed
1992 – WLAF World Bowl 2: Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17 (Montreal)
1999 – 53rd Tony Awards: “Fosse” and “Side Man” win

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Today in History for 6th June 2018

Historical Events

1903 – President Emile Loubet of France and Minister of Foreign Affairs Theophile Declasse visit London, furthering the cause of Entente Cordiale between Britain and France
1936 – Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey
1965 – Rolling Stones release single “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
1972 – Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
2012 – 46th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert and Luke Bryan wins
2015 – 114th Women’s French Open: Serena Williams beats Lucie Safarova (6-3, 6-7, 6-2)

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Famous Birthdays

1661 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer
1772 – Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Holy Roman Empire Empress consort (d. 1807)
1894 – Violet Trefusis, English writer and socialite who had a famous affair with writer Vita Sackville-West, born in London England (d. 1972)
1902 – Harold Roxbee Cox Kings Norton, aeronautical engineer
1907 – Bill Dickey, NY Yankee hall-of-fame catcher (1928-43) and manager, born in Bastrop, Louisiana (d. 1993)
1973 – Jamie Wilson, tackle (Carolina Panthers)

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Famous Deaths

1799 – Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary and Founding Father famous for his “Give me liberty or give me death” speech, dies at 63
1928 – Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67
1941 – Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
1951 – Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
1956 – Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 74
1999 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)

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Famous Deaths for 5th June 2018

1443 – Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies
1568 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont and Philip de Montmorency executed in Brussels, fueling Dutch resistance to Spanish rule
1816 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76
1852 – Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer, dies at 45
1900 – Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28
1913 – Chris von der Ahe, German entrepreneur and owner of St. Louis Brown Stockings, dies at 61
1921 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58
1970 – Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69
2004 – Ronald Reagan, 40th US President (Republican: 1981-89) and actor (Bedtime for Bonzo), dies at 93
2005 – Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)

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Famous Birthdays for 5th June 2018

1718 – Thomas Chippendale, England, furniture maker (baptized)
1757 – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
1878 – William Franklin “Frank” Smith, American actor (Cowboy and Bandit, Scarlet Car, Frontier Days), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1961)
1898 – Federico Garcia Lorca, Spainish poet and dramatist (Blood Wedding), born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Andalucía, Spain (d. 1936)
1931 – John Dellow, commisioner (London Metropolitan Police)
1931 – Jacques Demy, French director (Lola, Magic Donkey)
1945 – Don Reid, American country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall), born in Staunton, Virginia
1966 – Tina Barrett, Balt, LPGA golfer (1989 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State)
1969 – Keith Powe, WLAF/CFL defensive lineback (Win Blue Bombers, Claymores)
1978 – Fernando Meira, Portuguese football player

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Historical Events for 5th June 2018

1752 – Prince William of Orange becomes Knight of Garter
1849 – Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
1913 – Dutch Disability laws go into effect
1947 – US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the “Marshall Plan” to rebuild Western Europe
1956 – Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Constitutional
1977 – LA Dodgers retire Walt Alston’s #24
1980 – Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1988 – 1st Children’s Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000
1995 – 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire
2013 – 47th Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton wins

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Today in History for 5th June 2018

Historical Events

1806 – Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
1925 – 29th US Golf Open: Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester CC Mass
1940 – Battle of France begins in WW II
1955 – NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550′ HR off Chicago Billy Pierce
1970 – Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
1985 – Steve Cauthen wins aboard Slip Anchor at Epsom Downs to become the only jockey to win both the Kentucky Derby (1978) and The Derby

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Famous Birthdays

1915 – Lancelot Ware, founder (MENSA)
1920 – Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist (Klimbim)
1943 – Ann Craft, researcher/writer
1954 – Peter Erskine, jazz drummer (Weather Report)
1971 – Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
1987 – Charlie Clements, English actor

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Famous Deaths

1118 – Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
1568 – Willem Key, painter, dies at about 47
1667 – Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist (Assertiones Theologicae), dies
1825 – Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence
1967 – Edna Park Edwards, American stage and vaudeville actress, dies at 72
2009 – Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter, dies at 31

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Famous Deaths for 4th June 2018

1608 – Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, dies at 44
1921 – Heinrich E Albers-Schoenberg, German x-ray experimenter, dies at 56
1925 – Pierre Louys, [PF Louis], French writer (Aphrodite), dies
1970 – Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies
1978 – Jorge de Sena, Portuguese novelist and poet (Reino da Estupidez), dies at 58
1990 – Jack Gilford, American comedic actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2), dies at 81 of stomach cancer
1994 – [Derek] Lek Leckenby, English rock guitarist (Herman’s Hermits), dies of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at 48
1995 – William J Law, sailor, dies at 84
1997 – Kurt Alfred Adler, therapist/writer, dies at 92
2015 – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (Palatino and Optima), dies at 96

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