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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 4th October 2022   
   04 Oct 22 05:42:48   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@bbs.alt119.net   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1648 - Peter Stuyvesant establishes America's 1st volunteer fire service   
      
   1916 - Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time   
      
   1964 - LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Stardust CC; Mary Mills shoots final   
   round 69 to win first of her 2 LPGA C'ships, 2 strokes ahead of defending   
   champion Mickey Wright   
      
   1967 - St Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 2-1 in Game 1 of Baseball World   
   Series at Fenway Park; first Fall Classic since 1948 not to feature Yankees,   
   Giants or Dodgers; Cards win series, 4-3   
      
   1986 - Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde   
      
   2003 - Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews   
   and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1276 - Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany (d. 1311)   
      
   1901 - [Robert] Carroll Nye, American actor (Gone With The Wind), born in   
   Akron, Ohio (d. 1974)   
      
   1955 - John Rutherford, Scottish rugby union fly-half (42 caps; British and   
   Irish Lions 1983), born in Selkirk, Scotland   
      
   1956 - Sherri Turner, American golfer (Women's PGA C'ship 1988), born in   
   Greenville, South Carolina   
      
   1967 - Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer, born in Hong   
   Kong   
      
   1971 - Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1862 - William Duncan Smith, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army),   
   dies at 36   
      
   1949 - Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, mostly of operettas (Bruder   
   Straubinger; The Golden Mistress), dies from injuries from falling off of a   
   stage at 75   
      
   1992 - Denny Hulme, New Zealand auto racer (F1 World Drivers' Champion 1967),   
   dies of a heart attack driving in Bathurst 1,000 at 56   
      
   1993 - Jim Holton, Scottish soccer defender (15 caps; Manchester United,   
   Coventry City), dies of a heart attack at 42   
      
   2002 - AndrĂ© Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (Benvenuta),   
   dies at 76   
      
   2004 - Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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