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   Historical Events   
      
   1874 - Rotterdam opens drinking water pipes   
      
   1921 - WJZ, Newark NJ begins broadcasting   
      
   1955 - WORA TV channel 5 in Mayaguez, PR (TCI) begins broadcasting   
      
   1961 - Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's 12nd Symphony   
      
   1977 - Brazilian soccer great Pelé plays his final game for the New York   
   Cosmos in an exhibition against Santos in front of 75,000 at Giants Stadium;   
   1,281 goals in 1,363 games   
      
   1991 - Soviet Union suspends petroleum product exports as its fuel shortages   
   grow   
      
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   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1865 - Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)   
      
   1885 - Louis Untermeyer, American poet/critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems),   
   born in NYC, New York   
      
   1944 - Barbara Parritt, US soul singer (Toys-Lover's Concerto)   
      
   1948 - Ellen McIlwaine, blues singer (Honky Tonky Angel), born in Nashville,   
   Tennessee   
      
   1953 - Greta Waitz, Norwegian marathon runner (1st female world marathon   
   champion 1983), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 2011)   
      
   1973 - Jana Henke, German swimmer   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   976 - Al-Hakam II, Moors kalief of Cordoba, dies   
      
   1943 - Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27   
      
   1945 - Walter B Cannon, US physiologist (Traumatic Shock), dies at 73   
      
   1961 - Donald Cook, American actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60   
      
   1965 - Gareth Hughes, Welsh actor (Midnight Girl), dies at 71   
      
   1997 - Gul Mohammed, world's shortest man (22.1"/56.16 cm), dies at 36   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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