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   Historical Events   
      
   1902 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.   
      
   1938 - Japanese troops occupies Canton   
      
   1948 - Beersheba liberated by Israeli army   
      
   1965 - Vivian Beaumont Theater (NYC) opens   
      
   1970 - Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh   
      
   1986 - US writer Edward A Tracy kidnap in Beirut   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1449 - George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III (d. 1478)   
      
   1672 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina and diplomat, born   
   in Vileyka Raion, Belarus (d. 1742)   
      
   1907 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (b. 1824)   
      
   1955 - Eric Faulkner, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers), born in Edinburgh,   
   Scotland   
      
   1961 - Mark Finch, film festival organiser   
      
   1972 - Saffron Burrows, English actress   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1221 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)   
      
   1919 - Sven August Korling, composer, dies at 77   
      
   1966 - Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95   
      
   1996 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71   
      
   1997 - Dolph Camilli, Bkln Dodger/MVP (1941), dies at 90   
      
   2007 - Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts), dies at 56   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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