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   Historical Events   
      
   1863 - Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer, splitting   
   with rugby   
      
   1916 - American sex educator Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity   
   (advocating birth control)   
      
   1926 - Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 "Belga")   
      
   2003 - The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in Californian history, kills   
   15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), destroys 2,200 homes around   
   San Diego   
      
   2015 - 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits northern Pakistan and Afghanistan killing   
   over 300   
      
   2018 - Longest Baseball World Series game by both innings and time; LA Dodgers   
   beat Boston Red Sox, 3-2 in the 18th inning (7 hours, 20 mins) in Game 3 at   
   Dodger Stadium with Max Muncy walk-off homer   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1483 - Hans Buchner, German composer, born in Ravensburg (d. 1538)   
      
   1823 - Karl Weinhold, German sociologist (founder of Journal of the   
   Association of Folklore), born in Dzierżoniów, Poland (d. 1901)   
      
   1916 - François Mitterrand, 21st President of France (1981-95), born in   
   Jarnac, France (d. 1996)   
      
   1937 - Dave Gavitt, American basketball coach, formed Basketball's Big East   
   Conference (1979), born in Westerly, Rhode Island (d. 2011)   
      
   1952 - Abbas al-Musawi, influential Lebanese Shia cleric, and founder and   
   leader of Hezbollah, born in Al-Nabi Shayth, Lebanon (d. 1992)   
      
   1959 - François Chau, Cambodian actor, born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   900 - Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon monarch who was King of Wessex and King of   
   the Anglo-Saxons, dies at 50 or 51   
      
   1881 - Billy Clanton, brother of outlaw Ike Clanton, dies in the gunfight at   
   the OK Corral at 19   
      
   1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-British archaeologist, dies at 80   
      
   2004 - Bobby Ã�vila, Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman (MLB   
   All-Star 1952, 54, 55; AL batting champion 1954; Cleveland Indians), dies of   
   diabetes and lung ailment at 80   
      
   2007 - Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)   
      
   2021 - Glen Tuckett American college basbeall coach (Brigham Young Uni   
   1959-76) and administrator (BYU athletic director 1976-94), dies at 93   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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