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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 19th November 2018   
   19 Nov 18 03:31:30   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@alt119.net.remove-7iy-this   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1893 - 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)   
      
   1916 - Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures, the company   
   later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers   
      
   1947 - 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar   
      
   1985 - Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport" premieres in NYC   
      
   1987 - France performs nuclear test   
      
   2017 - Martin Truex Jr., driving for Furniture Row Racing, wins Ford EcoBoost   
   400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Florida to claim Monster Energy NASCAR Cup   
   Series by 5 points from Kyle Busch   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1600 - Charles I, King of England (1625-49) who was executed by Parliament,   
   born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland (d. 1649)   
      
   1835 - Fitzhugh Lee, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1905)   
      
   1906 - Jacques Leguerney, composer   
      
   1925 - Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-born sociologist (Modernity and the Holocaust),   
   born in PoznaÅ„ (d. 2017)   
      
   1974 - Orlando Fuentes, Ellsworth AFB SD, half-lightweight judoka (Olympics   
   1996)   
      
   1976 - Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1630 - Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Opella Nova), dies at 44   
      
   1942 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer (The Street of Crocodiles), shot and killed   
   by German Nazi at 50   
      
   1994 - Julian Gustave Symons, British crime writer and poet, dies at 82   
      
   1998 - Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)   
      
   2004 - Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)   
      
   2007 - Kevin DuBrow, American heavy metal singer (Quiet Riot), dies of an   
   overdose at 53   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
   http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/historyorb/todayinhistory/~3/7a11pN1a-0I/19   
      
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