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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 1st December 2018   
   01 Dec 18 03:35:29   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@alt119.net.remove-r48-this   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1941 - US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes   
      
   1945 - CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Toronto Argonauts win their 6th   
   title with a 35-0 shutout of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers   
      
   1948 - Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player   
      
   1953 - WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast   
      
   1981 - Yugoslavian charter flight crashes into Mont San-Pietro in Corsica, 180   
   killed   
      
   2012 - 21st SEC Championship Game: #2 Alabama beats #3 Georgia, 32-28   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1832 - Archibald Gracie Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)   
      
   1917 - Marty Marion, baseball player (NL MVP 1944)   
      
   1919 - Ike Isaacs, Burnese-born jazz guitarist, born in born in Rangoon, Burma   
   (d. 1996)   
      
   1929 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress (Jessie Brewer- General Hospital),   
   born in White Plains, New York (d. 1991)   
      
   1940 - Matthias Habich, actor (Straight to the Heart, A Corps Perdu)   
      
   1966 - Matthew Laborteaux, actor (Killing Stone, Deadly Friend)   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1530 - Margaretha of Austria, governess of the Netherlands, dies at 51   
      
   1700 - Willem ten Rhijne, Dutch physician in Batavia, dies at about 53   
      
   1928 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)   
      
   1941 - Horace Chapman, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa, 39 runs, 1 wkt),   
   dies   
      
   1986 - [Irving] Lee Dorsey, American pop and RandB singer (Working in the Coal   
   Mine), dies at 61   
      
   2004 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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