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Historical Events

1649 - Last Swedish troops vacate Prague

1944 - Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms

1962 - James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi

1963 - 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office

1988 - Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal

1990 - Chicago White Sox beat Seattle 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park

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Famous Birthdays

1832 - Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, British gov of Natal (Ireland-Boer war)

1894 - Dirk J Bush, Dutch-American mathematician (Concise History of Mathematics)

1898 - Felix Kersten, Baltic-German/Finnish masseuse (Heinrich Himmler)

1905 - Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1977), born in Leeds, England (d. 1996)

1946 - Sylvia Peterson, US vocalist (Chiffons-He's So Fine)

1965 - Kathleen Madigan, American comedian

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Famous Deaths

1572 - Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía and Jesuit priest, dies at 61

1712 - Johann Michael Zacher, composer, dies at 61

1961 - Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec (b. 1888)

1990 - Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist, dies at 89

1991 - Nancy Welford, entertainer, dies at 87

2003 - Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)

More Famous Deaths �

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