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   Historical Events   
      
   1542 - Battle of Solway Moss: English beat Scottish King James V   
      
   1861 - Luik-Visé-Maastricht railway opens   
      
   1874 - American inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire   
      
   1979 - "Salem's Lot", American two-part miniseries based on the horror novel   
   of the same name by Stephen King, concludes in the United States   
      
   1996 - 84th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Edmonton, 43-37 at Hamilton   
      
   1996 - German tennis star Steffi Graf retains her WTA Tour Championship with a   
   6-3, 4-6, 6-0, 4-6, 6-0 win over Martina Hingis at Madison Square Garden, NYC   
      
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   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1690 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer   
      
   1859 - Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)   
      
   1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)   
      
   1941 - Gary Boyle, rocker (Isotope)   
      
   1943 - Richard Tee, US pianist (Stuff, Strokin')   
      
   1970 - Doug Brien, kicker (New Orleans Saints)   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1571 - Jan Blahoslav, Czech bishop, dies at 48   
      
   1722 - Johann Adam Reincken, German organist and composer, dies at 99   
      
   1842 - Pehr Frigel, Swedish composer, dies at 92   
      
   1980 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)   
      
   1987 - Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)   
      
   2002 - John Rawls, political philosopher (b. 1921)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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