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Historical Events

1558 - Elizabeth I aged 25 ascends English throne upon death of her half sister
Queen "Bloody" Mary

1831 - Ecuador and Venezuela separated from Greater Colombia

1877 - Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at Kars, Armenia

1905 - The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.

1937 - Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement

2002 - Australian Leyton Hewitt scores back-to-back season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a classic 7-5, 7-5, 2-6, 2-6, 6-4 victory over Spaniard
Juan Carlos Ferrero in Shanghai, China

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Famous Birthdays

1925 - Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier

1929 - Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/attorney general on Aruba

1943 - Lauren Hutton, [Mary], model/actress (American Gigolo), born in Charleston, South Carolina

1944 - Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame Coach

1947 - Inky Mark, Canadian politician

1992 - Darian Weiss, American actor

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Famous Deaths

1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier, dies at 80

1862 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer, dies at 63

1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social reformer (b. 1847)

1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)

1921 - John McLaren, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1912), dies

1986 - Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered

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