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      From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@bbs.alt119.net              Historical Events              1889 - Moulin Rogue opens in Paris              1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina              1948 - Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of       Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya              1976 - John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent              1991 - Orioles' last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers)              2019 - Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters march in defiance of a new       ban on face masks              More Historical Events ¯       Famous Birthdays              1744 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, born in       Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1813)              1887 - Le Corbusier [Charles Jeanneret], Swiss French architect, city planner       and artist (Urbanisme), born in La Chaux-de-Fonds (d. 1965))              1920 - Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)              1935 - Vicente Cantatore, Argentine soccer manager (Chile, Real Valladolid,       Colo Colo, Real Betis, Sevilla, Sporting de Gijón), born in Rosario,       Argentina (d. 2021)              1970 - Matt Vogel, American puppeteer (Sesame Street, 1996-present; Kermit the       Frog, 2017-present; Big Bird, 2018-present), born in Kansas City, Kansas              1971 - Chris Hudson, NFL strong safety (Jacksonville Jaguars)              More Famous Birthdays ¯       Famous Deaths              1585 - Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter and sculptor, dies at 57              1874 - Thomas Tellefsen, Norwegian pianist and composer, dies at 50              1892 - Alfred Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate (The Charge of the       Light Brigade), dies at 83              1976 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)              2002 - Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)              2017 - Terry Downes, British middleweight boxing champion (1961-62), dies at 81              More Famous Deaths ¯              https://www.onthisday.com/day/october/6              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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