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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 7th October 2018   
   07 Oct 18 04:31:10   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@alt119.net.remove-9nq-this   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1908 - Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact   
      
   1947 - Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series   
      
   1954 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem   
      
   1979 - Ferrari driver Jody Scheckter retires with tyre trouble in US Grand   
   Prix at Watkins Glen; becomes first South African to claim World Formula 1   
   Drivers title; wins by 4 points from race winner Gilles Villeneuve   
      
   1993 - Massive Muslim demonstration in Xining, China, 12 killed   
      
   2012 - 13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near   
   Khartoum   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1901 - Souvanna Phouma, Prince and Prime Minister of Laos (1951-54, 1956-58,   
   1960 and 1962-75), born in Luang Phrabang, Laos (d. 1984)   
      
   1910 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)   
      
   1921 - John Arthur Giles Gere, English art historian (Pre-Raphaelite painter)   
      
   1943 - Oliver North, US colonel (Irangate), born in San Antonio, Texas   
      
   1956 - Julio Pezua, Pervian-American jockey   
      
   1987 - Jeremy Brockie, Australian footballer   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1368 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England,   
   dies at 29   
      
   1780 - Patrick Ferguson, Scottish army officer and rifle inventor (Ferguson   
   flintlock rifle), dies in battle at 36   
      
   1990 - J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies   
      
   1991 - Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86   
      
   2005 - Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)   
      
   2008 - Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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