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   Historical Events   
      
   1531 - Battle of Kappel: Swiss Roman Catholic cantons beat protestant forces   
   of Zurich; Huldrych Zwingli Swiss reformation leader is killed   
      
   1726 - Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England   
      
   1890 - First 100 yard dash under 10 seconds run by John Owen in 9.8 sec at   
   Analostan Island, Washington, D.C.   
      
   1922 - First woman FBI "special investigator", Alaska Davidson, appointed   
      
   1956 - 1st Pakistan v Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day   
      
   2015 - Nepal's parliament elects Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, leader of the   
   Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist party, as Prime Minister   
      
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   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1661 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat, Cardinal and poet, born in   
   Chateau de la Ronte, Haute-Loire, France (d. 1741)   
      
   1747 - Marian Paradeiser, Austrian composer, born in Riedenthal, Austria (d.   
   1775)   
      
   1897 - Russell Collins, American actor (Niagara, Close Up, Shockproof), born   
   in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1965)   
      
   1897 - Nathan Farragut Twining, U.S. Air Force general, born in Monroe,   
   Wisconsin (d. 1982)   
      
   1919 - Jean Vander Pyl, American voice, radio and film actress (The   
   Flintstones, The Jetsons), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1999)   
      
   1926 - John Dewes, British cricketer (England opener late 40's early 50's),   
   born in Latchford, Cheshire, England (d. 2015)   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1666 - Henry de Fleury dee Coulan, mister of Buat/ritmeester, dies   
      
   1809 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer, soldier and public administrator   
   who helped lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies of gunshot wounds at 35   
   under mysterious circumstances that could have been murder or suicide along   
   the Natchez Trace in    
   Tennessee at an inn called Grinder's Stand   
      
   1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), Wagner   
   disciple and "monumental bore", dies at 72   
      
   1967 - Ivan Isakov [Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan], Russian-Armenian military   
   commander (Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy during World War II), dies at   
   73   
      
   1977 - Mason Gross, professor (Think Fast, 2 for the Money), dies at 66   
      
   2005 - Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b.   
   1915)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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