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   Historical Events   
      
   1813 - Danzig surrenders to allied armies   
      
   1873 - American Metrological Society forms (NYC) weights, measures and money   
      
   1933 - Jack Badcock scores 274 v Victoria, Tasmania's 1st double-ton   
      
   1944 - King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne, appointing Archbishop   
   Damaskinos of Athens as Regent in 1945   
      
   2005 - Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record   
   for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin   
      
   2013 - NFL head coach Mike Shanahan is fired by the Washington Redskins   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   39 - Titus, 10th Roman Emperor (79-81) and conqueror of Jerusalem, born in   
   Rome (d. 81)   
      
   1928 - Bo Diddley, [Ellas Bates], Miss, rock `n' roll pioneer (Bo Diddley)   
      
   1953 - Daniel T Barry, PhD/MD/astronaut (STS 72), born in Norwalk, Connecticut   
      
   1959 - Josée Verner, French Canadian politician   
      
   1978 - Tyrese, American singer and actor   
      
   1987 - Jake Cuenca, Filipino actor and commercial model   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1894 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76   
      
   1967 - Vincent Massey, Canadian diplomat, 1st Canadian-born Governor General   
   of Canada (1952-59), dies at 80   
      
   1992 - Caesar [Caesar] Domela, painter/son of Ferdinand D Nieuwenhuis, dies   
      
   1996 - Robert Grant Ferris, British politician, dies at 89   
      
   2000 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (Casablanca), dies at 91   
      
   2010 - Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (b. 1927)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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