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   Historical Events   
      
   1856 - Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers and Indians   
      
   1875 - Anti-slavery society forms in New York   
      
   1949 - 1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale and Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win   
      
   1971 - WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting   
      
   1983 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia   
      
   2016 - British rowing team becomes first female crew and first crew of four to   
   cross the Pacific, San Francisco to Cairns in 257 days   
      
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   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1814 - Francis Harrison Pierpont, American lawyer and politician (Union), born   
   in Morgantown, West Virginia (d. 1899)   
      
   1834 - Pablo Hernández Salces, Spanish composer (d. 1910)   
      
   1884 - Edward Kilenyi, Sr. [Ede Kilényi], Hungarian composer and teacher   
   (Clipped Wings, Outside the Law), born in Békésszentandrás, Hungary (d.   
   1968)   
      
   1938 - Etta James [Jamesetta Hawkins], American singer (Roll with Me, At   
   Last), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2012)   
      
   1957 - Jeff Gossett, American football punter (Oakland Raiders), born in   
   Charleston, Illinois   
      
   1974 - Adam Meadows, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), born in   
   Powder Springs, Georgia   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1139 - Godfried I, with the Beard, duke of Brabant/earl of Leuven, dies   
      
   1366 - Henry Suso, German mystic   
      
   1829 - William Shield, composer, dies at 80   
      
   1917 - Edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies   
      
   1949 - Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesman　(b. 1861)   
      
   1998 - Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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