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   Historical Events   
      
   1746 - Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor   
      
   1955 - Pakistan signs Pact of Baghdad   
      
   1968 - WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting   
      
   1983 - Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title in   
   Ohio   
      
   1983 - Argentine military regime gives amnesty to military and political   
   assassins   
      
   1990 - PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1895 - Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)   
      
   1947 - Mary Kay Place, actress/country singer (Mary Hartman!), born in Tulsa,   
   Oklahoma   
      
   1963 - Gabriele Reinsch, German DR, discus thrower (world record 1988)   
      
   1976 - Kip Pardue, American actor and model   
      
   1977 - Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2008)   
      
   1978 - Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1837 - Richard John Samuel Stevens, English composer, dies at 80   
      
   1944 - Colijn, Neth PM, buried   
      
   1961 - Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol), dies at 65   
      
   1978 - Lyman Bostock, outfielder (Angels), shot and killed at 27   
      
   1994 - Madeleine Renaud, French actress and theater director (Plaisir), dies   
   at 94   
      
   1994 - John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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