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   Historical Events   
      
   1349 - By this date at least 200 people a day were being buried in London as a   
   result of the Black Death   
      
   1802 - 1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25 cents)   
      
   1829 - Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral on fire, does £60,000 damage   
      
   1927 - Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's "Rio Rita" premieres in NYC   
      
   1952 - Hubert de Givenchy presents his first collection in Paris with Bettina   
   Graziani opening the show   
      
   1955 - 1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1925 - Michel Philippot, French composer and musicologist, born in Verzy,   
   France (d. 1996)   
      
   1929 - Reiner Bredemeyer, composer   
      
   1932 - Robert Mandan, American actor best known for his role as Chester Tate   
   in US sitcom "Soap", born in Clever, Missouri (d. 2018)   
      
   1942 - Barry Diller, founder (Fox-TV)   
      
   1954 - Ina Garten, American author and TV cooking show host (Barefoot   
   Contessa, Food Network), born in Brooklyn, New York   
      
   1966 - Andrei Chesnokov, Russian tennis star   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1512 - Hatüey, Taíno chief known as Cuba's First National Hero, is burned   
   alive by Spanish colonialists   
      
   1660 - Gaston, Duke of Orleans, brother of French King Louis XIII, dies at 51   
      
   1867 - Forceythe Willson, American poet (The Old Sergeant), dies at 29   
      
   1941 - Johannes Schlaf, German writer and translator, dies at 78   
      
   1952 - Johann Babtist Thaller, German composer, dies at 79   
      
   1969 - Giovanni Martinelli, opera singer (NY Met), dies at 83   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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