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Historical Events

1861 - Battle of Black Water (American Civil War)

1884 - Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State

1922 - Theresa Vaughn, 24, confesses in court in Sheffield, England, to being married 61 times over 5 years in 50 cities in three countries

1941 - US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II

1978 - Indira Gandhi ambushed in India

1984 - Scotty Bowman wins his 691st regular season game, the most wins by any coach in NHL history

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Famous Birthdays

1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)

1902 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (Anna Karenina, Doctor Zhivago), born in
Cheltenham, England (d. 1983)

1957 - John Gulager, American film director and actor (He Was a Quiet Man), born in NYC, New York

1959 - Kathryn "Furu" Carpenter, Marshall Mich, fencer-epee (Olympics 1996)

1964 - Beatrice Dalle, French actress (Betty Blue, Sabbath), born in Breast

1982 - Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower

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Famous Deaths

1741 - Vitus Bering, Danish navigator and explorer (explored Bering Strait and Alaska coast), dies after being shipwrecked at 60

1814 - Joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump

1878 - Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)

1953 - Robert A. Millikan, American physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85

1982 - Dwight Macdonald, American social critic (b. 1906)

1993 - Michael Clarke, drummer (Byrds), dies of liver failure at 49

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