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   Historical Events   
      
   1900 - There are now 62,000 foreign troops in Peking and nearby cities, still   
   defeating Boxer Rebels.   
      
   1984 - 1st MTV Video Music Awards: The Cars win with "You Might Think", and   
   David Bowie wins with "China Girl"   
      
   1987 - Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken   
      
   1992 - 1st subway car completed to be exported from US (to Taiwan)   
      
   1996 - NY Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 HRs by a catcher   
      
   1996 - 21st Toronto International Film Festival: "Shine" directed by Scott   
   Hicks wins the People's Choice Award   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1904 - Å rom, Karel, Czech composer, musicologist, and critic, born in Pilsen,   
   Bohemia (d. 1981)   
      
   1933 - Zoe Caldwell, Australian actress (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), born in   
   Melbourne, Victoria, Australia   
      
   1937 - Renzo Piano, Italian architect (Whitney Museum of American Art, The   
   Shard), born in Genoa, Italy   
      
   1942 - Oliver Lake, American jazz saxophonist and composer, born in Marianna,   
   Arkansas   
      
   1947 - Joan Thirkettle, British journalist, born in Kent, England (d. 1996)   
      
   1965 - Dmitry Medvedev, Russian politician (President and Prime Minister of   
   Russia), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   891 - Stephen V [VI], Italian Pope (885-91), dies   
      
   1435 - John Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Bedford, English prince, general (Hundred   
   Years' War) and statesman, dies at 46   
      
   1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, American author (Last of Mohicans), dies of   
   dropsy at 61   
      
   1886 - Hubert Reis, German composer, dies at 84   
      
   1962 - Marcel Delannoy, French composer, dies at 64   
      
   1965 - J. W. Hearne, English cricket all-rounder (24 Tests, 30 wickets, 1 x   
   100; Middlesex), dies at 74   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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