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Historical Events

1881 - 47th Congress (1881-83) convenes

1892 - Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag

1944 - German troops steal all the silver coin in Utrecht

1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1998 - 3rd Big 12 Championship Game: #10 Texas AandM beats #2 Kansas State, 36-33 (2 OT)

1999 - 88th Davis Cup: Australia beats France in Nice (3-2)

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Famous Birthdays

1927 - Bhumibol Adulyadej [Rama IX], King of Thailand (1946-2016), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 2016)

1933 - Edward Daly, Irish Bishop "Bloody Sunday" priest, born in Belleek, County Fermanagh (d. 2016)

1940 - Boris Ignatyev, Russian footballer and manager

1949 - Bruce E Melnick, American Cmdr USCG/astronaut (STS 41, STS 49), born in NYC, New York

1962 - José Cura, Argentine tenor

1979 - Niklas Hagman, Finnish ice hockey player

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Famous Deaths

1758 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer, dies at 70

1971 - Hugh Wakefield, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Blithe Spirit), dies at 83

1991 - Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies

1995 - Victor Collin Matthews, businessman, dies on 76th birthday

1996 - Wilf Carter, country singer, dies at 91

2008 - Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, Romanian politician and president of the Association of Romanian Former Political Prisoners. (b. 1928)

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