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Historical Events

1941 - US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes

1945 - CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Toronto Argonauts win their 6th title with a 35-0 shutout of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

1948 - Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player

1953 - WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast

1981 - Yugoslavian charter flight crashes into Mont San-Pietro in Corsica, 180 killed

2012 - 21st SEC Championship Game: #2 Alabama beats #3 Georgia, 32-28

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Famous Birthdays

1832 - Archibald Gracie Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)

1917 - Marty Marion, baseball player (NL MVP 1944)

1919 - Ike Isaacs, Burnese-born jazz guitarist, born in born in Rangoon, Burma (d. 1996)

1929 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress (Jessie Brewer- General Hospital), born in White Plains, New York (d. 1991)

1940 - Matthias Habich, actor (Straight to the Heart, A Corps Perdu)

1966 - Matthew Laborteaux, actor (Killing Stone, Deadly Friend)

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Famous Deaths

1530 - Margaretha of Austria, governess of the Netherlands, dies at 51

1700 - Willem ten Rhijne, Dutch physician in Batavia, dies at about 53

1928 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)

1941 - Horace Chapman, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa, 39 runs, 1 wkt), dies

1986 - [Irving] Lee Dorsey, American pop and RandB singer (Working in the Coal Mine), dies at 61

2004 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)

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