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   Historical Events   
      
   1854 - US Assay Office in NYC, New York opens   
      
   1904 - Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC   
      
   1913 - Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic and Pacific waters mix   
      
   1935 - Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy   
      
   1960 - WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting   
      
   1982 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to   
   die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1862 - Arthur De Greef, Belgian composer, born in Louvain, Belgium (d. 1940)   
      
   1868 - Guillermo M. Tomás, Cuban composer, born in Cienfuegos, Cuba (d. 1933)   
      
   1900 - Helen Hayes [Brown], American actress (Caesar and Cleopatra, Happy   
   Birthday), and 1st female EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award winner),   
   born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1993)   
      
   1916 - Benson Fong, American character actor (Charlie Chan films; Purple   
   Heart; Flower Drum Song), and restaurateur, born in Sacramento, California (d.   
   1987)   
      
   1921 - Boy Trip, Dutch minister, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands (d. 1990)   
      
   1936 - Artie Dick, New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper (NZ of 60's), born in   
   Middlemarch, New Zealand   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1473 - Giorgio da Sebenico, Venetian sculptor and architect (Cathedral of St   
   James in Å ibenik)   
      
   1745 - Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer and organist, dies at 52   
      
   1856 - Mikhail Vielgorsky, Russian composer, dies at 67   
      
   1977 - Jean Duvieusart, 36th Prime Minister of Belgium, dies at 77   
      
   1990 - Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee, dies at 56   
      
   2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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