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   Historical Events   
      
   1872 - Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam   
      
   1880 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo   
      
   1943 - German troops occupy Rome and take took over the protection of Vatican   
   City   
      
   1990 - 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series,   
   Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0   
      
   1998 - 15th MTV Video Music Awards: Madonna and Will Smith win   
      
   2001 - Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan is awarded Actor of the Century at the   
   Alexandria Film Festival   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1585 - Ercole Porta, Italian church composer, born in Bologna (d. 1630)   
      
   1714 - Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer, born in Aversa, Kingdom of Naples   
   (d. 1774)   
      
   1788 - Jacques Boucher de CrèvecÅ“ur de Perthes, French archaeologist   
   (discovered flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley), born in Rethel,   
   Ardennes, France (d. 1868)   
      
   1939 - Topham Brinton, English carpet magnate/multi-millionaire   
      
   1948 - Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born French film director, born in Algiers,   
   French Algeria   
      
   1983 - Joey Votto, Canadian baseball first baseman (NL MVP 2010; 6 × MLB   
   All-Star; Cincinnati Reds), born in Toronto, Ontario   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1749 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (translation   
   of Newton's Principia), dies in childbirth at 42   
      
   1922 - Arpad Szendy, Hungarian composer, dies at 59   
      
   1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)   
      
   1991 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (6 Grand Slam singles titles),   
   dies at 83   
      
   2015 - Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (I Vitelloni, Ulysses, Sciuscià),   
   dies at 83   
      
   2017 - Harry Landers [Sorokin], American actor (Star Trek, Ben Casey, Drive a   
   Crooked Road), dies at 96   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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