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   Historical Events   
      
   1208 - St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy   
      
   1881 - De Lesseps' Company begins work on Panama Canal   
      
   1893 - The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the   
   United States of America   
      
   1894 - Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras   
      
   1917 - German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)   
      
   2018 - UN Security Council passes resolution for 30 day ceasefire in Syria   
      
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   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1848 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (d. 1907)   
      
   1932 - John Vernon [Adolphus Agopsowicz], Canadian actor (Animal House,   
   Chained Heat, Dirty Harry), born in Zehner, Saskatchewan (d. 2005)   
      
   1947 - Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)   
      
   1957 - Phil McConkey, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)   
      
   1974 - Bonnie Somerville, American actress and singer   
      
   1989 - Daniel Kaluuya, British actor and writer (Get Out), born in London,   
   England   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   616 - King Ethelbert of Kent, 1st English king to convert to Christianity   
      
   1810 - Henry Cavendish, British physicist and chemist (discovery of hydrogen),   
   dies at 78   
      
   1990 - Sandro Pertini, 7th President of Italy (1978-85), dies at 93   
      
   1991 - Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74   
      
   2001 - Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (b. 1916)   
      
   2007 - Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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