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   Historical Events   
      
   1649 - Last Swedish troops vacate Prague   
      
   1944 - Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms   
      
   1962 - James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi   
      
   1963 - 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office   
      
   1988 - Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal   
      
   1990 - Chicago White Sox beat Seattle 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1832 - Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, British gov of Natal (Ireland-Boer war)   
      
   1894 - Dirk J Bush, Dutch-American mathematician (Concise History of   
   Mathematics)   
      
   1898 - Felix Kersten, Baltic-German/Finnish masseuse (Heinrich Himmler)   
      
   1905 - Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1977), born in   
   Leeds, England (d. 1996)   
      
   1946 - Sylvia Peterson, US vocalist (Chiffons-He's So Fine)   
      
   1965 - Kathleen Madigan, American comedian   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1572 - Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía and Jesuit priest, dies at 61   
      
   1712 - Johann Michael Zacher, composer, dies at 61   
      
   1961 - Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of   
   Québec (b. 1888)   
      
   1990 - Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist, dies at 89   
      
   1991 - Nancy Welford, entertainer, dies at 87   
      
   2003 - Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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