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   Historical Events   
      
   1813 - Treaty of Ried between Bavaria and Austria   
      
   1982 - Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions   
      
   1984 - NBC's premiere of TV made "The Burning Bed", based on Francine Hughes   
      
   1988 - Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage   
      
   1992 - Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott   
      
   2018 - Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for   
   the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) by   
   2040 with dire results   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1838 - John Milton Hay, American politician (Union), born in Salem, Indiana   
   (d. 1905)   
      
   1919 - Mac Anderson, New Zealand cricketer (played in 1st NZ-Aust Test 1946),   
   born in Westport, West Coast, New Zealand (d. 1979)   
      
   1924 - Alphons Egli, Swiss politcian and member of the Swiss Federal Council,   
   born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 2016)   
      
   1931 - Bill Brown, Scottish soccer goalkeeper (28 caps; Dundee, Tottenham   
   Hotspur), born in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland (d. 2004)   
      
   1971 - Monty Williams, American basketball head coach and executive (Phoenix   
   Suns 2019; New Orleans Hornets / Pelicans 2010-15) and NBA forward/guard (San   
   Antonio Spurs), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia   
      
   1981 - Ruby [Rania Hussein Muhammad Tawfiq], Egyptian singer ("Do You Know   
   Why") and actress (The Baby Doll Night), born in Cairo, Egypt   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   976 - Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen   
      
   1094 - St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos ministry in Venice   
      
   1974 - Harry Carney, American tenor and baritone jazz saxophonist (Duke   
   Ellington Orchestra, 1927-74), dies at 64   
      
   2008 - George E. Palade, Romanian-American cell biologist (ribosomen, Nobel   
   1974), dies at 95   
      
   2008 - Eileen Herlie [Herlihy], Scottish-American actress (All My Children;   
   The Angel with the Trumpet), dies of complications from pneumonia at 90   
      
   2011 - Antonio Iglesias Ã�lvares, Spanish pianist, composer, educator and   
   critic, dies at 93   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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