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Historical Events

1932 - 5th Academy Awards: Fredric March and Wallace Beery in 1st ever tie for Best Actor. "Grand Hotel" and Helen Hayes also win.

1966 - US Roman Catholic bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays

1973 - Arab oil ministers cancel the scheduled 5 percent cut in production for EEC

2001 - Home crowd favourite Leyton Hewitt wins his first of 2 season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Frenchman Sébastien Grosjean in Sydney, Australia

2007 - 59th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jimmie Johnson wins

2012 - Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 Nascar Sprint Cup

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Famous Birthdays

1897 - Jules Buffano, pianist (Jimmy Durante Show), born in St Louis, Missouri

1900 - Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist (Ditters and Jitters)

1906 - George Wald, American physiologist and biologist (Nobel Prize 1967, vitamin A in retina), born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)

1957 - Seán Mac Falls, Irish-born poet

1966 - Darren Flutie, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)

1974 - Chloë Sevigny, American actress

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Famous Deaths

1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)

1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)

1918 - Reggie Schwartz, South African cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies at 43

1919 - Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies

1995 - Ted Sannella, square dance caller, dies of cancer

1999 - Paul Bowles, American novelist (The Sheltering Sky ), dies at 88

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