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   Historical Events   
      
   1693 - Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages   
      
   1750 - Carlo Goldoni's "Il Teatro Comico" premieres in Venice   
      
   1945 - Indonesian army forms   
      
   1957 - 11th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum: NY Rangers left wing Dean   
   Prentice scores a goal and has 2 assists as All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens,   
   5-3   
      
   1976 - MLB expansion draft: Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays pick 30   
   unprotected AL players; Ruppert Jones OF (Seattle) and Bob Bailor OF (Toronto)   
   are first picks   
      
   1992 - NY senator Alphonse D'Amato filibusters for 15 hours 20 mins   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1458 - Kazimierz de Saint, Polish ruler/saint   
      
   1836 - George Washington Gordon, American Brigadier General (Confederate   
   Army), born in Pulaski, Tennessee (d. 1911)   
      
   1884 - Hendrik W Tilanus, Dutch artillery officer/politcian (CHU 1939-63)   
      
   1954 - Duncan Regehr, Alberta Canada, actor (Wizards and Warriors)   
      
   1967 - Guy Pearce, Anglo-Australian actor   
      
   1967 - Ellie Gibson, golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One-5th), born in Corpus   
   Christi, Texas   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1837 - Hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10), dies at   
   54   
      
   1878 - George B. Vashon, American, lawyer, academic and poet, first African   
   American lawyer, dies of yellow fever at 54   
      
   1941 - Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme   
   Court of the United States, dies at 84   
      
   1997 - Andrew Keir, Scottish character actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt,   
   Catholics), dies at 71   
      
   2007 - Walter Kempowski, German writer (German Chronicle), dies at 78   
      
   2015 - Chantal Akerman, Belgium film director (Akermania, Je Tu II Elle), dies   
   at 65   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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