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   Historical Events   
      
   1715 - English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead   
      
   1890 - Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and   
   Kentville, Nova Scotia.   
      
   1952 - French government of Pinay, resigns   
      
   1956 - "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221   
   performances   
      
   1990 - Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen   
      
   1997 - Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1694 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer, born in   
   Hamburg, Germany (d. 1768)   
      
   1768 - John Crome (Old Crome), English landscape artist, born in Norwich,   
   England (d. 1821)   
      
   1896 - Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet, born in St Petersburg,   
   Russia   
      
   1946 - Rick Nielsen, American rock vocalist/guitarist (Cheap Trick), born in   
   Rockford, Illinois   
      
   1967 - Sean Foster, WLAF wide receiver (Rhein Fire)   
      
   1969 - Myriam Bédard, Canadian biathlete, born in Loretteville, Quebec City   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1337 - Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54   
      
   1419 - Pope John XXIII [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies at 81   
      
   1788 - Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)   
      
   1828 - Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US President Andrew Jackson, dies of heart   
   failure   
      
   1939 - Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer/composer, dies at 53   
      
   2006 - Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (b. 1960)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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