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   Historical Events   
      
   1596 - -26] Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary and Germany   
      
   1656 - Treaty of Vilnius: Russia and Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant   
      
   1940 - Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants   
      
   1958 - USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam   
      
   2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing   
   over $50 million in damage   
      
   2020 - Deadliest shipwreck of the year claims 140 lives on a ship that sank   
   with 200 migrants on board off the coast of Senegal   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1808 - Ernst Richter, German musical theorist and composer, born in   
   Großschönau, Saxony, Germany (d. 1879)   
      
   1908 - John Alwyne Kitching, British zoologist (d. 1996)   
      
   1936 - Bill Wyman, English rock and jazz bassist (Rolling Stones, 1962-93 -   
   "Under My Thumb"), born in Lewisham, London   
      
   1943 - José E. Serrano, American politician (Rep-D-New York), born in   
   Mayagüez, Puerto Rico   
      
   1960 - Joachim Winkelhock, German race car driver, born in Waiblingen, West   
   Germany   
      
   1972 - T. J. Cunningham, American NFL safety (Seattle Seahawks), born in   
   Aurora, Colorado (d. 2019)   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1852 - Daniel Webster, US Secretary of State (1841-43, 1850-52), politician   
   and lawyer, dies at 70   
      
   1931 - Murray Bisset, South African cricketer (South African wicket-keeper   
   1899 and 1910), dies at 55   
      
   1935 - Abe Landau, American gangster (henchman for Dutch Schultz), murdered at   
   39   
      
   1938 - Ernst Barlach, German writer and artist, dies at 68   
      
   1996 - Bruce Matthews, Australian newspaper executive who worked for Rupert   
   Murdoch, dies at 71   
      
   2004 - James Cardinal Hickey, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1920)   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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