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Historical Events

1077 - Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV gives the district of Stavoren to the bishop
of Utrecht (Conrad, his former tutor)

1905 - "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties and accepts the first Duma (Parliament)

1943 - Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN

1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1953 - Dr Albert Schweitzer and Gen George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize

1970 - KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting

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Famous Birthdays

1762 - André Chénier, French poet killed during French Revolution, born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1794)

1914 - Marius Hendrikus Flothuis, Dutch composer/author (Mozart biography)

1925 - Gus Savage, American politician (Rep-D-IL, 1981- 93), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2015)

1939 - Grace Slick, rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit), born in Chicago, Illinois

1973 - Michael Oakes, English footballer

1987 - Ashley Graham, American model and body activist, born in Lincoln, Nebraska

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Famous Deaths

1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)

1885 - Gustav Merkel, German organist and composer, dies at 57

1992 - Joan Mitchell, American painter and printmaker dies of cancer aged 67

2002 - William Mitchell, British physicist, dies at 77

2004 - Margaret O'Rene "Peggy" Ryan, American dancer and actress (Hawaii Five-0), dies at 80

2006 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (symbolic anthropology), dies at 80

More Famous Deaths �

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