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   Historical Events   
      
   1861 - Battle of Black Water (American Civil War)   
      
   1884 - Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State   
      
   1922 - Theresa Vaughn, 24, confesses in court in Sheffield, England, to being   
   married 61 times over 5 years in 50 cities in three countries   
      
   1941 - US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II   
      
   1978 - Indira Gandhi ambushed in India   
      
   1984 - Scotty Bowman wins his 691st regular season game, the most wins by any   
   coach in NHL history   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)   
      
   1902 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (Anna Karenina, Doctor Zhivago), born   
   in Cheltenham, England (d. 1983)   
      
   1957 - John Gulager, American film director and actor (He Was a Quiet Man),   
   born in NYC, New York   
      
   1959 - Kathryn "Furu" Carpenter, Marshall Mich, fencer-epee (Olympics 1996)   
      
   1964 - Beatrice Dalle, French actress (Betty Blue, Sabbath), born in Breast   
      
   1982 - Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1741 - Vitus Bering, Danish navigator and explorer (explored Bering Strait and   
   Alaska coast), dies after being shipwrecked at 60   
      
   1814 - Joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump   
      
   1878 - Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)   
      
   1953 - Robert A. Millikan, American physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85   
      
   1982 - Dwight Macdonald, American social critic (b. 1906)   
      
   1993 - Michael Clarke, drummer (Byrds), dies of liver failure at 49   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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