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   Historical Events   
      
   1851 - 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America set up in   
   Montreal   
      
   1922 - 15th Women's Australasian Championships (1st for women): Margaret   
   Molesworth beats Esna Boyd (6-3, 10-8)   
      
   1968 - KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting   
      
   1973 - "Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances   
      
   1980 - 61°F in Boston at 1 AM   
      
   1990 - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1594 - Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)   
      
   1847 - George Grossmith, British actor, comedian and writer (The Diary of a   
   Nobody, A Society Clown), born in London, England (d. 1912)   
      
   1906 - Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and US Navy admiral who   
   invented the first compiler for a universal computer programming language and   
   is credited with coining the phrase 'debugging', born in NYC, New York (d.   
   1992)   
      
   1932 - Donald Byrd, American jazz trumpeter (Black Byrd), born in Detroit,   
   Michigan (d. 2013)   
      
   1944 - Ki Longfellow, American novelist   
      
   1973 - Tony Batista, infielder (Oakland A's), born in Puerto Plata, Dominican   
   Republic   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1565 - Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian Pope (1559-65), dies at 66   
      
   1916 - Natsume SÅ   
   seki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)   
      
   1948 - Sir Timothy O'Brien, cricketer (Bart 5 Tests England 1884-96), dies   
      
   1957 - Carswell Adams, sportscaster (Your Sports Special), dies   
      
   1964 - Edith Sitwell, English poet and author (Wheels), dies at 77   
      
   1996 - Ivor Roberts-Jones, British sculptor (known for sculpted heads of   
   Yehudi Menuhin and George Thomas), dies at 83   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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