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   Historical Events   
      
   1746 - Jacobite Rising 1745: British forces surrender Inverness Castle to   
   Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite forces   
      
   1828 - 1st American Indian newspaper in US, "Cherokee Phoenix", published   
      
   1942 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht   
      
   1960 - Biathlon debuts at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics; Klas Lestander   
   from Sweden becomes the first Olympic champion ahead of Finland's Antti   
   Tyrväinen and Soviet Aleksandr Privalov   
      
   1980 - British figure skater Robin Cousins wins men's singles gold medal at   
   the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; goes on to pro career, TV analysis and stage   
   performance and production   
      
   1981 - "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1417 - Louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)   
      
   1710 - Willem van Haren, Frisian nobleman/poet (Human Life)   
      
   1917 - Victor G M Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65)   
      
   1937 - Ron Clarke, Australian runner (set 17 world records) and mayor, born in   
   Melbourne, Victoria (d. 2015)   
      
   1946 - Alan Rickman, English actor (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Die Hard,   
   Harry Potter), born in Hammersmith, London (d. 2016)   
      
   1970 - Michael Slater, Australian cricketer (devastating Aust opening bat   
   since 1993), born in Wagga Wagga, Australia   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1866 - Stephen Elliott, Jr., Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 35   
      
   1919 - Giovanni Bolzoni, composer, dies at 77   
      
   1920 - Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (b. 1910)   
      
   1945 - Eric Liddell, Scottish 400m runner (Olympic gold 1924) and Christian   
   missionary in China, dies of an inoperable brain tumor at 43 while interned at   
   the Weihsien Internment Camp in Weifang, Shandong, China   
      
   1965 - Malcolm X [Little], African American human rights activist and Muslim   
   minister, assassinated in New York City at 39   
      
   2015 - Clark Terry, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 94   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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