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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 13th December 2018   
   13 Dec 18 03:42:03   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@alt119.net.remove-yrq-this   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1545 - Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opened by Pope Paul III   
      
   1920 - Netherland breaks contact with Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slavia   
      
   1966 - Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 and 78   
      
   1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3764.43   
      
   2001 - "A Beautiful Mind" based on the bio by Sylvia Nasar, directed by Ron   
   Howard and starring Russell Crowe premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 2002)   
      
   2001 - Indian Parliament Sansad attacked by terrorists. 15 people killed,   
   including all terrorists   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1918 - Bill Vukovich, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1953-4), born in   
   Fresno, California (d. 1955)   
      
   1923 - Antoni Tapies, painter, sculptor, and theorist (Dau al Set), born in   
   Barcelona, Spain (d. 2012)   
      
   1925 - Dick Van Dyke, West Plains Mo, actor (Rob Petrie-Dick Van Dyke Show)   
      
   1943 - Margaret "Marti" Webb, British actress and singer (Evita, Tell Me on a   
   Sunday), born in Hampstead, London   
      
   1959 - John Whitaker, actor (Family Affair, Snowball Expr), born in Van Nuys,   
   California   
      
   1972 - GiGi Gordon, Butler PA, Miss America-Pennsylvania (1997)   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1693 - Dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies   
      
   1814 - Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belgium fieldmarshal/author, dies at 79   
      
   1932 - Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (b. 1853)   
      
   1945 - Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide   
      
   1958 - Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed   
      
   1974 - John G. Bennett, British scientist and author, dies at 77   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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