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   Historical Events   
      
   1310 - German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia   
      
   1940 - German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap rationing   
      
   1940 - US National Guard assembles   
      
   1987 - Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)   
      
   1990 - Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season   
      
   2017 - Indications that Neanderthals were the first to make glue out of tar   
   strengthened by research published in "Scientific Reports"   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1884 - George Al Sarton, Belgian-American chemist and historian, born in   
   Ghent, Belgium (d. 1956)   
      
   1895 - Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer   
      
   1905 - Sal Tas, Dutch journalist and CIA agent (Het Parool) [or 1897]   
      
   1941 - Emanuel Nunes, Portuguese composer, born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 2012)   
      
   1975 - James Black, Canadian singer-songwriter (Finger Eleven), born in   
   Ontario, Canada   
      
   1977 - Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1864 - Ferdinand Lassalle, French socialist and political activist   
   (Allgemeiner), dies at 39   
      
   1869 - Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim (b. 1827)   
      
   1948 - Andrei A Zjdanov, Russian politician (against kosmopolitism), dies at 52   
      
   1985 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist (Nobel Prize for   
   Physiology or Medicine for tissue grafting), dies at 85   
      
   1995 - Beant Singh, Prime Minister of Punjab province of India, assassinated   
   at 73   
      
   1996 - David Pollock, Viscount Hanworth, British barrister, dies at 80   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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