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   Historical Events   
      
   1670 - France and Bavaria sign military assistance treaty   
      
   1926 - Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch, Bingham, Utah; 40 die   
      
   1957 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.   
      
   1983 - Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot   
      
   1984 - Biathletes Eirik Kvalfoss of Norway and West German Peter Angerer   
   finish 2nd and 3rd respectively in the relay at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics;   
   both have complete sets of medals from biathlon events at the Games   
      
   1985 - Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita   
      
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   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1675 - Johann Melchior Conradi, composer   
      
   1888 - Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943)   
      
   1904 - Luis A. Ferré, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician (Governor of   
   Puerto Rico, 1969-73), born in Ponce, Puerto Rico (d. 2003)   
      
   1933 - Bobby Lewis, singer (Tossin' and Turnin'), born in Indianapolis, Indiana   
      
   1964 - Buster Olney, American sports columnist   
      
   1973 - Drew Barry, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1624 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)   
      
   1943 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)   
      
   1966 - Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real), dies at 85   
      
   2007 - Jurga IvanauskaitÄ—, Lithuanian writer (b. 1961)   
      
   2016 - Tony Phillips, American MLB player (Oakland Athletics), dies at 56   
      
   2017 - Magnus Wenninger, American mathematician and author of Polyhedron   
   models, dies at 97   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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