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Historical Events

1856 - Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers and Indians

1875 - Anti-slavery society forms in New York

1949 - 1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale and Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win

1971 - WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting

1983 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia

2016 - British rowing team becomes first female crew and first crew of four to cross the Pacific, San Francisco to Cairns in 257 days

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Famous Birthdays

1814 - Francis Harrison Pierpont, American lawyer and politician (Union), born in Morgantown, West Virginia (d. 1899)

1834 - Pablo Hernández Salces, Spanish composer (d. 1910)

1884 - Edward Kilenyi, Sr. [Ede Kilényi], Hungarian composer and teacher (Clipped Wings, Outside the Law), born in Békésszentandrás, Hungary (d. 1968)

1938 - Etta James [Jamesetta Hawkins], American singer (Roll with Me, At Last),
born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2012)

1957 - Jeff Gossett, American football punter (Oakland Raiders), born in Charleston, Illinois

1974 - Adam Meadows, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), born in Powder Springs, Georgia

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Famous Deaths

1139 - Godfried I, with the Beard, duke of Brabant/earl of Leuven, dies

1366 - Henry Suso, German mystic

1829 - William Shield, composer, dies at 80

1917 - Edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies

1949 - Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesman　(b. 1861)

1998 - Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies

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