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   Historical Events   
      
   1404 - The Act of Multipliers is passed by the English Parliament forbidding   
   alchemists to use their knowledge to create precious metals (it was feared   
   that if any alchemist should succeed it would bring ruin upon the state)   
      
   1893 - British Independent Labour Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)   
      
   1895 - Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband" premieres in London   
      
   1915 - Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800   
      
   1984 - TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV   
      
   2014 - 14 people are killed and 7 are injured after an explosion in an illegal   
   gambling hall in Kaili City, China   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1805 - Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)   
      
   1938 - Tord Grip, Swedish football manager   
      
   1960 - Takis Lemonis, Greek footballer and coach   
      
   1969 - Orlando Miller, Changionola Panama, infielder (Houston Astros)   
      
   1972 - Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast (6 Olympic gold medals Barcelona   
   1992), born in Minsk, Belarus   
      
   1989 - Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1691 - George Fox, founder of Quakers, dies at 66   
      
   1928 - Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer, dies at 57   
      
   1929 - Wyatt Earp, US marshall (OK Corral), dies at 80   
      
   1974 - Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor (b. 1906)   
      
   1981 - Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Mary, My Child), dies at 83   
      
   2009 - William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet under the pseudonym S. S.   
   Gardons (b. 1926)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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