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Historical Events

1868 - Standard uniform approved for US postal carriers

1906 - George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" premieres in NYC

1908 - 4th Olympic games ends in London

1960 - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die

1992 - Don Keller makes his 18,000th sky dive

2015 - Russian airliner crashes killing all 224 on board in Sinai Peninsula, Egypt - Russia's worst air disaster

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Famous Birthdays

1345 - Ferdinand I, King of Portugal (1367-83), born in Coimbra, Portugal (d. 1383)

1920 - Fritz Walter, German footballer, born in Kaiserslautern, Germany (d. 2002)

1925 - John Pople, English chemist (Nobel Prize 1998), born in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England (d. 2004)

1939 - Ron Rifkin, American actor (Arvin Sloane-Alias, L.A. Confidential), born
in NYC, New York

1949 - Bob Siebenberg, American rocker (Supertramp), born in Glendale, California

1976 - Piper Perabo, American actress (Covert Affairs), born in Dallas, Texas

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Famous Deaths

1723 - Cosimo III de' Medici, monarch of Florence (1670-1723), dies at 81

1883 - Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj

1918 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter and graphic artist, dies at 28

1929 - António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)

1964 - Theodore C Freeman, astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash

2000 - Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)

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