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   Historical Events   
      
   1661 - Nicolas Fouquet, French Superintendent of Finances under Louis XIV is   
   arrested for maladministration of state funds; he died in 1680, never seeing   
   freedom again.   
      
   1915 - Tsar Nicholas II, distressed by increasing Russian losses, assumes   
   personal command of his nation's military forces; clearly a symbolic act and   
   devastating for his leadership   
      
   1958 - "The Huckleberry Hound Show" by Hanna-Barbera featuring Yogi Bear   
   premieres on US TV   
      
   1986 - Hijacking of aircraft Pan Am 73 at Karachi airport, Pakistan, 20   
   passengers killed   
      
   2012 - 54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory   
   explodes in Nadu   
      
   2021 - Tour Championship, Men's Golf, East Lake GC, GA: Patrick Cantlay claims   
   richest prize in golf ($15m) with 1 stroke win over Jon Rahm; runner-up Rahm   
   pockets $5m   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1319 - Peter IV, King of Aragon (1336-87), born in Perpignan, France (d. 1387)   
      
   1918 - Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor, born in   
   Badajoz, Mexico (d. 1992)   
      
   1920 - Fons Rademakers, Dutch director (Assault) and actor (Daughter of   
   Darkness), born in Roosendaal, Netherlands (d. 2007)   
      
   1926 - Carmen Petra-Basacopol, Romanian composer and educator Bucharest   
   Conservatory (1962-2003), born in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania   
      
   1939 - Claudette Colvin, American civil rights activist who was arrested at   
   age 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded,   
   segregated bus (nine months before Rosa Parks), born in Montgomery, Alabama,   
   born in Montgomery, Alabama   
      
   1982 - Sondre Lerche, Norwegian musician, born in Bergen, Norway   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1808 - John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)   
      
   1978 - Joe Negroni, American rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers),   
   dies of a brain hemorrhage at 37   
      
   1993 - Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60   
      
   2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of   
   the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)   
      
   2003 - Moe Biller, American labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers),   
   dies at 87   
      
   2021 - Ivan Patzaichin, Romanian canoeist (Olympic gold C-2 1000m 1968, 80,   
   84; C-1 1000m 1972; World C'ship gold x 8), dies from lung cancer at 71   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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