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   Historical Events   
      
   1932 - 5th Academy Awards: Fredric March and Wallace Beery in 1st ever tie for   
   Best Actor. "Grand Hotel" and Helen Hayes also win.   
      
   1966 - US Roman Catholic bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays   
      
   1973 - Arab oil ministers cancel the scheduled 5 percent cut in production for   
   EEC   
      
   2001 - Home crowd favourite Leyton Hewitt wins his first of 2 season-ending   
   Tennis Masters Cup titles with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Frenchman   
   Sébastien Grosjean in Sydney, Australia   
      
   2007 - 59th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jimmie Johnson wins   
      
   2012 - Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 Nascar Sprint Cup   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1897 - Jules Buffano, pianist (Jimmy Durante Show), born in St Louis, Missouri   
      
   1900 - Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist (Ditters and Jitters)   
      
   1906 - George Wald, American physiologist and biologist (Nobel Prize 1967,   
   vitamin A in retina), born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)   
      
   1957 - Seán Mac Falls, Irish-born poet   
      
   1966 - Darren Flutie, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)   
      
   1974 - Chloë Sevigny, American actress   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)   
      
   1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)   
      
   1918 - Reggie Schwartz, South African cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa),   
   dies at 43   
      
   1919 - Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies   
      
   1995 - Ted Sannella, square dance caller, dies of cancer   
      
   1999 - Paul Bowles, American novelist (The Sheltering Sky ), dies at 88   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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