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   Historical Events   
      
   1888 - One of first known modern beauty contests held in Spa, Belgium   
      
   1939 - Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland   
      
   1940 - Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order   
   to smuggle out information and start a resistance   
      
   1960 - "LIFE" magazine celebrates artist Anna Mary "Grandma" Moses' 100th   
   birthday by putting her on their cover   
      
   1992 - Demolition begins of JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; built   
   in 1926 as Sesquicentennial Stadium, also known as Municipal Stadium, it   
   hosted the 1926 Tunney-Dempsey fight, 41 Army-Navy football games, The   
   Beatles; The Rolling Stones;    
   victory rallies for The NHL Flyers and MLB Phillies; and the US portion of   
   Live-Aid   
      
   2004 - 56th Emmy Awards: The Sopranos, Arrested Development, James Spader and   
   Allison Janney win   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1811 - Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader, born in   
   Hartford, New York (d. 1881)   
      
   1946 - Michael Elphick, British stage and screen actor (Gorky Park; Boon),   
   born in Chichester, Sussex, England (d. 2002)   
      
   1951 - Richard Dashut, American record producer (Bob Welch; Fleetwood Mac:   
   Lindsey Buckingham), born in West Hollywood, California   
      
   1959 - Marshall Jefferson, American musician 'father of house music' (Move   
   your Body), born in Chicago, Illinois   
      
   1962 - Ken Rosenthal, American sportswriter and reporter, born in Oyster Bay,   
   Long Island   
      
   1966 - Soledad O'Brien, American journalist (Matter of Fact with Soledad   
   O'Brien), born in St. James, New York   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1339 - Go-Daigo, 96th Emperor of Japan (1318-39), dies at 50   
      
   1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer, dies at 65   
      
   1993 - Richard Landau, American screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79   
      
   1995 - Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist, dies at 83   
      
   1996 - Timothy Nicholson, journalist, dies at 32   
      
   2006 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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