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   Historical Events   
      
   1921 - The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is   
   completed in northern California and Oregon   
      
   1932 - French liner Normandie is launched   
      
   1945 - Happy Chandler resigns as US Senator, remains as baseball commissioner   
      
   1982 - Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted   
      
   1988 - First scheduled Soviet shuttle launch (postponed)   
      
   2017 - British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes a distant 9th in   
   Mexican Grand Prix at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez; good enough to clinch   
   his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1704 - John Byng, English admiral executed by firing squad at 52 for   
   neglecting his duty in defence of Minorca, born in Southill, Bedfordshire,   
   England (d. 1757)   
      
   1853 - Josephine Beall Bruce, African-American activist (NACW) Philadelphia,   
   Pennsylvania (d. 1923)   
      
   1882 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer and playwright (The Madwoman of   
   Chaillot), born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France (d. 1944)   
      
   1923 - Dietrich Manicke, German composer, born in Wurzen, Saxony, Germany (d.   
   2013)   
      
   1937 - Sonny Osborne, American bluegrass banjo player (The Osborne Brothers -   
   "Rocky Top"), born in Roark, Kentucky (d. 2021)   
      
   1938 - Ralph Bakshi, Krymchak-American animator and film maker (Fritz the Cat;   
   Lord of the Rings (1978); Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures), born in Haifa,   
   Mandatory Palestine   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1677 - Charles Coypeau Dassoucy, French poet and singer, dies at 72   
      
   1919 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)   
      
   1965 - Bill McKechnie, American Baseball HOF manager (World Series 1925   
   Pittsburgh Pirates, 1940 Cincinnati Reds) and coach (World Series 1948   
   Cleveland Indians), dies at 79   
      
   1979 - Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood, American funk drummer (Parliament-Funkadelic;   
   Miles Davis), dies of stomach cancer at 35   
      
   1983 - Sten Broman, Swedish composer, dies at 81   
      
   2011 - Jimmy Savile, British entertainer and suspected sexual predator, dies   
   at 84   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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