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   Historical Events   
      
   1878 - British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco   
   in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health   
   announcements on the dangers of smoking   
      
   1926 - Mackenzie King is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada   
      
   1930 - Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it" premieres in NYC   
      
   1956 - Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0   
      
   1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.   
      
   1997 - Marv Albert plea bargains in assault case   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1741 - Vaclav Pichl, Czech composer, born in BechynÄ›, Czech Republic (d. 1805)   
      
   1907 - Jan Felderhof, composer   
      
   1925 - Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner), born   
   in Rome, Italy (d. 2016)   
      
   1936 - Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, bluesman   
      
   1955 - Steven Severin, British pop bassist (Siouxsie and Banshees-Wild Thing)   
      
   1958 - Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   813 - al-Amin, Arabic kalief of Islam (809-813), murdered   
      
   1940 - Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (Snow White), dies at 57   
      
   1944 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68   
      
   1991 - Lydia Cabrera, Cuban Anthropologist, dies at 91   
      
   2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)   
      
   2005 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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