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   Historical Events   
      
   1627 - Last Emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty, Chongzhen, comes to the   
   throne after death of his brother Emperor Tianqi   
      
   1799 - Duke of York and Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands   
      
   1851 - The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass(a contraption built to test the   
   pseudo-scientific hypothesis that snails create a permanent telepathic link   
   when they mate) is demonstrated but proves to be a fake.   
      
   1926 - Bert Gibb kicks 9 singles as Hamilton Tigers beat Montreal AAA Winged   
   Wheelers 12-10 in Montreal in Canadian Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union   
   opening round   
      
   1982 - Bomb attack in Tehran, kills 60, injures 700   
      
   1990 - Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1880 - George Alexander Russell, American organist, composer and the first   
   Frick Professor of Music for Princeton University, born in Franklin, Tennessee   
   (d. 1953)   
      
   1945 - Don McLean, American singer and songwriter ("American Pie"; "Vincent"),   
   born in New Rochelle, New York   
      
   1947 - (Frank) "Skip" Konte, American keyboardist, songwriter (The Blues Image   
   - "Ride Captain Ride"), and record producer, born in Canon City, Oklahoma   
      
   1967 - Floyd "Bud" Gaugh, American ska-punk rock drummer (Sublime), born in   
   Kihei, Hawaii   
      
   1967 - Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete (Olympic silver 100m, 200m 1992,   
   96), born in Windhoek, South West Africa   
      
   1969 - Badly Drawn Boy [Damon Gough], British singer-songwriter (Have You Fed   
   The Fish?), born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1729 - Arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60   
      
   1842 - William Ellery Channing, cleric/writer, dies   
      
   1974 - Ina Seidel, German poet and novelist, dies at 89   
      
   1993 - Ahmed Abdul-Malik [Jonathan Tim, Jr.], American jazz double bassist and   
   oud player (Odetta; Thelonius Monk), dies at 66   
      
   2001 - Franz Biebl, German composer, mostly of choral music, dies at 95   
      
   2005 - Bert Eriksson, Flemish neo-Nazi, dies at 74   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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