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   Historical Events   
      
   1925 - Sidney Howards "Lucky Sam McGarver" premieres in NYC   
      
   1972 - "Man of La Mancha" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 140 performances   
      
   1976 - NY Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed   
      
   1976 - Baseball World Series: defending champions Cincinnati Reds sweep NY   
   Yankees; beat Bombers, 7-2 in Game 4 at Yankee Stadium; MVP: Reds catcher   
   Johnny Bench   
      
   2017 - Spanish government suspends Catalonia's autonomy in the face of a   
   deepening political crisis over the region's push for independence   
      
   2018 - Train derails in Yilan County, Taiwan, killing 18 and injuring 178   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1581 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)   
      
   1904 - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, American sci-fi author (Danger Planet)   
      
   1916 - Andrea Checchi, Italian actor (The Lady Without Camelias, Two Anonymous   
   Letters), born in Florence, Tuscany (d. 1974)   
      
   1971 - Thomas Ulsrud, Norwegian curler (World C'ship gold [skip] 2014;   
   Olympics silver 2010), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 2022)   
      
   1973 - Charlie Lowell, American Musician   
      
   1980 - Brian Pittman, American Christian rock bassist (Relient K), born in   
   Canton, Ohio   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1805 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral and war hero, dies in Battle of   
   Trafalgar at 47   
      
   1969 - Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet of the Beat Generation (On the   
   Road, Mexico Blues), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 47   
      
   1977 - Ferit Tuzun, Turkish composer, dies at 48   
      
   1984 - Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52   
      
   1993 - Melchior Ndadaye, 1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murdered at 40   
      
   2012 - Dann Cahn, American film editor, dies of natural causes at 89   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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