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Historical Events

1878 - British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health announcements on the dangers of smoking

1926 - Mackenzie King is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada

1930 - Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it" premieres in NYC

1956 - Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0

1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.

1997 - Marv Albert plea bargains in assault case

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Famous Birthdays

1741 - Vaclav Pichl, Czech composer, born in Bechyně, Czech Republic (d. 1805)

1907 - Jan Felderhof, composer

1925 - Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner), born in Rome, Italy (d. 2016)

1936 - Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, bluesman

1955 - Steven Severin, British pop bassist (Siouxsie and Banshees-Wild Thing)

1958 - Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist

More Famous Birthdays �
Famous Deaths

813 - al-Amin, Arabic kalief of Islam (809-813), murdered

1940 - Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (Snow White), dies at 57

1944 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68

1991 - Lydia Cabrera, Cuban Anthropologist, dies at 91

2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)

2005 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)

More Famous Deaths �

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