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   Historical Events   
      
   1534 - Quito, Ecuador, founded by Spanish   
      
   1876 - 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Pennsylvania   
      
   1971 - Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as US Supreme Court justice   
      
   1973 - Gerald Ford sworn-in as first unelected Vice President, succeeds Spiro   
   Agnew who resigned over corruption allegations   
      
   1981 - Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18   
      
   1988 - STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1835 - Wilhelm Rudolf Fittig, Hamburg, German Chemist (synthesizing organic   
   compounds)   
      
   1914 - Cyril Washbrook, cricketer (stalwart Lancs and England opener)   
      
   1916 - Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1986)   
      
   1929 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor (Early Music Movement), born   
   in Berlin (d. 2016)   
      
   1976 - Lindsay Price, Arcadia CA, actress (Bold and Beautiful, All My Children)   
      
   1995 - Joy Gruttmann, German singer   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1889 - Jozef Neuhuys [Joseph Hendrikus Neuhuys], Dutch painter, dies at 48   
      
   1892 - [Ernst] Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (siemens   
   electrical conductance unit and Siemens corporation), dies at 75   
      
   1924 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b.   
   1863)   
      
   1989 - John Payne, American actor (The Restless Gun, Miracle on 34th Street),   
   dies aged 77   
      
   1989 - Sammy Fain, composer, dies at 87   
      
   2011 - Dobie Gray [Lawrence Brown], American musician and singer (Drift Away),   
   dies of cancer at 71   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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