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   Historical Events   
      
   1881 - 47th Congress (1881-83) convenes   
      
   1892 - Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag   
      
   1944 - German troops steal all the silver coin in Utrecht   
      
   1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR   
      
   1998 - 3rd Big 12 Championship Game: #10 Texas AandM beats #2 Kansas State,   
   36-33 (2 OT)   
      
   1999 - 88th Davis Cup: Australia beats France in Nice (3-2)   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1927 - Bhumibol Adulyadej [Rama IX], King of Thailand (1946-2016), born in   
   Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 2016)   
      
   1933 - Edward Daly, Irish Bishop "Bloody Sunday" priest, born in Belleek,   
   County Fermanagh (d. 2016)   
      
   1940 - Boris Ignatyev, Russian footballer and manager   
      
   1949 - Bruce E Melnick, American Cmdr USCG/astronaut (STS 41, STS 49), born in   
   NYC, New York   
      
   1962 - José Cura, Argentine tenor   
      
   1979 - Niklas Hagman, Finnish ice hockey player   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1758 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer, dies at 70   
      
   1971 - Hugh Wakefield, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Blithe   
   Spirit), dies at 83   
      
   1991 - Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies   
      
   1995 - Victor Collin Matthews, businessman, dies on 76th birthday   
      
   1996 - Wilf Carter, country singer, dies at 91   
      
   2008 - Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, Romanian politician and president of the   
   Association of Romanian Former Political Prisoners. (b. 1928)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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