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   Historical Events   
      
   1862 - Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname   
      
   1912 - Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2)   
      
   1953 - WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting   
      
   1964 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ   
      
   1968 - "Her 1st Roman" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 17 performances   
      
   1991 - Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1740 - Belle van Zuylen, Dutch-Swiss writer (Three Women), born at Castle   
   Zuylen near Utrecht (d. 1805)   
      
   1899 - Marnix Gijsen [baron Jan-Albert Goris], Flemish writer (Grote God Pan)   
      
   1927 - Joyce Brothers, American pop psychologist ($64,000 Question, Naked   
   Gun), born in NYC, New York (d. 2013)   
      
   1939 - Raymond Jones, British keyboardist and songwriter, born in Oldham,   
   England   
      
   1950 - Elodie Lauten [Genevieve Schecroun], French-American composer (The   
   Death of Don Juan), born in Paris (d. 2014)   
      
   1960 - Lepa Brena 'Yugoslavia's Madonna', Yugoslav singer, born in Tuzla,   
   Yugoslavia   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1890 - Richard Burton, English explorer and translator (Arabian Nights), dies   
   at 69   
      
   1900 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer, dies at 54   
      
   1904 - Henry Hiles, English composer, dies at 77   
      
   1926 - Eugene V. Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential   
   candidate, dies at 70   
      
   2013 - Lawrence Klein, American economist who created computer models to   
   forecast economic trends (1980 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences),   
   dies at 93   
      
   2020 - Bill Mathis, American football halfback (AFL All Star 1961, 63; New   
   York Titans/Jets), dies at 81   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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