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   Historical Events   
      
   1386 - Opening of the University of Heidelberg   
      
   1969 - Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kanter arrested for marijuana possession   
      
   1977 - NY Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games   
      
   1992 - 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities   
      
   2001 - Crude Oil for November delivery falls to its lowest level since August   
   1999 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)   
      
   2012 - Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan   
      
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   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1662 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (d. 1714)   
      
   1701 - Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)   
      
   1859 - Paolo Orsi, Rovereto, Italian Archaeologist (Sicilian excavations)   
      
   1925 - Wim van Gennep, Dutch singer/keyboardist (Heikrekels)   
      
   1938 - Dawn Wells, American actress (Gilligan's Island -"Mary Ann"), born in   
   Reno, Nevada (d. 2020)   
      
   1966 - Alan Mills, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles), born in Lakeland, Florida   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1876 - Francis Preston Blair, American journalist and newspaper editor   
   (Washington Globe), dies at 85   
      
   1953 - Federico Gerdes, composer, dies at 80   
      
   1991 - Gunnar Sønstevold, Norwegian jazz pianist, and orchestral and film   
   score composer (Litany In Atlanta; The Dorian Cage), dies at 78   
      
   2005 - John Hollis, British actor (b. 1931)   
      
   2010 - Marion Brown, American jazz alto saxophonist, (Marion Brown Quartet;   
   John Coltrane -"Ascension"; Artie Schepp), avant garde composer, writer, and   
   ethno-musicologist, dies at 79   
      
   2013 - Tom Foley, American politician (Rep-D-Washington 1965-1995) and speaker   
   of the house (1989-95), dies from complications from a stroke at 84   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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