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   Historical Events   
      
   1891 - Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated   
      
   1898 - Establishment of the first town council in Mateur.   
      
   1907 - Baseball World Series: Chicago Cubs beat Detroit Tigers, 2-0 at Bennett   
   Park for 4-0-1 series victory; Cubs' first Championship   
      
   1918 - Cloquet fire kills 453 and injures or displaces 52,000 people   
      
   1969 - Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 7 is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in   
   southern Kazakhstan   
      
   1995 - "Patti LuPone on Broadway" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 46 performances   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1813 - Lyman Trumbull, U.S. Senator from Illinois (1855-73), born in   
   Colchester, Connecticut (d. 1896)   
      
   1890 - Luis de Freitas Branco, Portuguese composer, born in Lisbon, Portugal   
   (d. 1955)   
      
   1929 - Robert Coles, American author (Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973), born in   
   Boston, Massachusetts   
      
   1947 - George Lam, Hong Kong veteran Cantopop singer, born in Hong Kong   
      
   1952 - Danielle Proulx, French Canadian actress, born in Montreal, Quebec   
      
   1968 - Bill Auberlen, American race car driver, born in Redondo Beach,   
   California   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1343 - Reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies   
      
   1679 - William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)   
      
   1969 - Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (Olympic gold 1928, 32, 36), and   
   actress (My Lucky Star), dies from leukemia at 57   
      
   1990 - Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered   
      
   2017 - Grape-kun, a Humbolt penguin from Tobu Zoo, who gained fame from the   
   anime series "Kemono Friends", dies aged 21 (Miyashiro, Saitama Prefecture,   
   Japan).   
      
   2018 - Takehisa Kosugi, Japanese violinist and experimental music composer   
   (Group Ongaku; Taj Mahal Travellers), dies at 80   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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