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Historical Events

1947 - 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)

1959 - UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights

1962 - USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, and US lifts blockade

1976 - George Harrison appears on "Saturday Night Live"

1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset

1997 - Last original Florida Marlin, Jeff Conine, traded to KC Royals

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Famous Birthdays

1919 - John McCarthy, composer

1938 - Tony White, cricketer (2 Tests WI v Australia 1965)

1947 - Mardell Wilkins, LPGA golfer

1948 - Richard Masur, American actor (David-One Day at a Time), born in NYC, New York

1971 - Joel McHale, American actor and comedian, born in Rome, Italy

1976 - Theodoros Velkos, Greek badminton player, born in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria

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Famous Deaths

1527 - Wendelmoet "Weyntjen" Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic

1741 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat, Cardinal and poet, dies at 80

1887 - Louis Gallait, Belgian painter (Egmont and Receiver), dies at 77

1910 - Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich], Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and
Peace), dies of pneumonia at 82

1994 - Ali-Akbar Sa'idi Sirjani, Iranian poet and journalist, dies at 64

2010 - Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (b. 1932)

More Famous Deaths ¯

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