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Historical Events

1670 - France and Bavaria sign military assistance treaty

1926 - Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch, Bingham, Utah; 40 die

1957 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.

1983 - Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot

1984 - Biathletes Eirik Kvalfoss of Norway and West German Peter Angerer finish
2nd and 3rd respectively in the relay at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; both have complete sets of medals from biathlon events at the Games

1985 - Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita

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Famous Birthdays

1675 - Johann Melchior Conradi, composer

1888 - Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943)

1904 - Luis A. Ferré, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician (Governor of Puerto Rico, 1969-73), born in Ponce, Puerto Rico (d. 2003)

1933 - Bobby Lewis, singer (Tossin' and Turnin'), born in Indianapolis, Indiana

1964 - Buster Olney, American sports columnist

1973 - Drew Barry, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)

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Famous Deaths

1624 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)

1943 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)

1966 - Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real), dies at 85

2007 - Jurga IvanauskaitÄ—, Lithuanian writer (b. 1961)

2016 - Tony Phillips, American MLB player (Oakland Athletics), dies at 56

2017 - Magnus Wenninger, American mathematician and author of Polyhedron models, dies at 97

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