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   Historical Events   
      
   1077 - Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV gives the district of Stavoren to the   
   bishop of Utrecht (Conrad, his former tutor)   
      
   1905 - "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties and   
   accepts the first Duma (Parliament)   
      
   1943 - Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN   
      
   1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   
      
   1953 - Dr Albert Schweitzer and Gen George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize   
      
   1970 - KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1762 - André Chénier, French poet killed during French Revolution, born in   
   Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1794)   
      
   1914 - Marius Hendrikus Flothuis, Dutch composer/author (Mozart biography)   
      
   1925 - Gus Savage, American politician (Rep-D-IL, 1981- 93), born in Detroit,   
   Michigan (d. 2015)   
      
   1939 - Grace Slick, rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit), born in   
   Chicago, Illinois   
      
   1973 - Michael Oakes, English footballer   
      
   1987 - Ashley Graham, American model and body activist, born in Lincoln,   
   Nebraska   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)   
      
   1885 - Gustav Merkel, German organist and composer, dies at 57   
      
   1992 - Joan Mitchell, American painter and printmaker dies of cancer aged 67   
      
   2002 - William Mitchell, British physicist, dies at 77   
      
   2004 - Margaret O'Rene "Peggy" Ryan, American dancer and actress (Hawaii   
   Five-0), dies at 80   
      
   2006 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (symbolic anthropology), dies   
   at 80   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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