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Historical Events

1953 - KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting

1969 - Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko and Eric Clapton) 1st live performance

1981 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic

2015 - Evian Championship, Evian Resort: Lydia Ko of New Zealand wins by 6 from
Lexi Thompson to become youngest major winner, 18yrs, 142 days

2017 - UN Secretary-General António Guterres says Rohingya refugee crisis now "catastrophic" as 370,000 confirmed to have fled Myanmar

2017 - Martin Shkreli's bail revoked after he judged risk to community for posting $5,000 bounty for a strand of Hillary Clinton's hair

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Famous Birthdays

1830 - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (The Child of the Parish), born in ZdislaviÄ, Moravia (d. 1916)

1853 - Sophia Perovskaya, Soviet icon, aristocrat, and socialist revolutionary (Narodnaya Volya), who helped orchestrate the successful assassination of Alexander II of Russia, born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1881)

1907 - Victor Reinganum, artist

1928 - Ernest L Boyer, educator/chancellor (NY's State Universities-SUNY)

1973 - Brian Evans, NBA forward (Orlando Magic)

1978 - Megan Henning, American actress

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Famous Deaths

1806 - Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)

1904 - Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)

1931 - Lili Elbe [born Einar Wegener], Danish transgender woman, former painter, and 1st identifiable recipient of sex reassignment surgery (autobiography: Man into Woman), dies from complications involving a uterus transplant at 48

1971 - Lin Biao, Chinese Communist Marshal during the Civil War and party leader, dies in a plane crash at 63, possibly while fleeing from a botched coup
against Mao

1994 - John William Stevens, jazz drummer, dies at 54

2001 - Dorothy McGuire, American actress (Gentlemen's Agreement, Old Yeller, Summer Magic), dies of cardiac arrest following a short illness at 85

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