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Historical Events
1863 - Jo Shelby's cavalry in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas
1905 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper
"Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1939 - White Sox host 1st "day-night" doubleheader, lose to Cleve, 5-2 and 7-5
1980 - Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.
1988 - Senate votes for major federal tax code changes
2005 - Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th straight division title thanks to Philadelphia's loss to the New York Mets
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Famous Birthdays
1783 - Agustin I de Iturbide, General and 1st Emperor of Mexico (1822-23), born
in Valladolid, Michoacán, Mexico (d. 1824)
1922 - James Wilson, composer
1932 - Peter Holmes, CEO (Shell Transport and Trading Company
1955 - Thelma Aldana, Guatemalan judge and 11th Guatemalan Attorney General, born in Gualán, Zacapa
1964 - Stephan Jenkins, American singer (Third Eye Blind)
1982 - Lil Wayne, American rapper
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Famous Deaths
1870 - Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
1919 - Robert Gleeson, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies
1944 - Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian photographer and chemist, dies at 81
1965 - Harry Reser, American banjo player and bandleader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 69
1972 - S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
1994 - Gerald Bledsoe, DJ (Soul Alive, WWRL), dies of heart attack at 51
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