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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 13th September 2018   
   13 Sep 18 01:10:56   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@alt119.net.remove-fz7-this   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1953 - KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting   
      
   1969 - Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko and Eric Clapton) 1st live performance   
      
   1981 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic   
      
   2015 - Evian Championship, Evian Resort: Lydia Ko of New Zealand wins by 6   
   from Lexi Thompson to become youngest major winner, 18yrs, 142 days   
      
   2017 - UN Secretary-General António Guterres says Rohingya refugee crisis now   
   "catastrophic" as 370,000 confirmed to have fled Myanmar   
      
   2017 - Martin Shkreli's bail revoked after he judged risk to community for   
   posting $5,000 bounty for a strand of Hillary Clinton's hair   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1830 - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (The Child of the Parish),   
   born in ZdislaviÄ   
   , Moravia (d. 1916)   
      
   1853 - Sophia Perovskaya, Soviet icon, aristocrat, and socialist revolutionary   
   (Narodnaya Volya), who helped orchestrate the successful assassination of   
   Alexander II of Russia, born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1881)   
      
   1907 - Victor Reinganum, artist   
      
   1928 - Ernest L Boyer, educator/chancellor (NY's State Universities-SUNY)   
      
   1973 - Brian Evans, NBA forward (Orlando Magic)   
      
   1978 - Megan Henning, American actress   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1806 - Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)   
      
   1904 - Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)   
      
   1931 - Lili Elbe [born Einar Wegener], Danish transgender woman, former   
   painter, and 1st identifiable recipient of sex reassignment surgery   
   (autobiography: Man into Woman), dies from complications involving a uterus   
   transplant at 48   
      
   1971 - Lin Biao, Chinese Communist Marshal during the Civil War and party   
   leader, dies in a plane crash at 63, possibly while fleeing from a botched   
   coup against Mao   
      
   1994 - John William Stevens, jazz drummer, dies at 54   
      
   2001 - Dorothy McGuire, American actress (Gentlemen's Agreement, Old Yeller,   
   Summer Magic), dies of cardiac arrest following a short illness at 85   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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