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   Historical Events   
      
   1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). Bre   
   on-French-Latin dictionary written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc was first Breton   
   and French dictionary   
      
   1811 - El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence   
      
   1873 - Due to the fallout from the Pacific Scandal, John A. Macdonald resigns   
   as Prime Minister of Canada   
      
   1973 - Arab producers announce 25 percent cut in oil production   
      
   1992 - "Revenge Match of the 20th century" American chess grandmaster Bobby   
   Fischer defeats Russian Boris Spassky to win an unofficial match in Belgrade   
      
   2000 - Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie is laid to rest 25 years after his   
   death after a funeral procession through Addis Ababa   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1885 - Will Durant, American author and historian (The Story of Philosophy,   
   The Story of Civilization), born in North Adams, Massachusetts (d. 1981)   
      
   1911 - Roy Rogers, American cowboy actor and singer ("Happy Trails"; Roy   
   Rogers Show), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1998)   
      
   1920 - Douglass North, American economist, (Nobel Prize Economic Sciences   
   1993), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 2015)   
      
   1930 - Clifford Irving, American novelist and investigative reporter (hoax   
   autobiography of Howard Hughes), born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)   
      
   1951 - Tony Evers, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (2019-), born in   
   Plymouth, Wisconsin   
      
   1974 - Chris Sununu, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (2017-),   
   born in Salem, New Hampshire   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1680 - Gillis Valckenier, mayor of Amsterdam (1665..80), dies at about 57   
      
   1828 - Maria Feodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia, dies   
   at 69   
      
   1860 - Carl Binder, Austrian composer, dies at 43   
      
   1989 - Barry Sadler, American singer ("Ballad Of The Green Berets"), dies from   
   complications of being shot at 49   
      
   1990 - Herbert Berghof, Austrian actor (Belarus File, Harry and Tonto,   
   Target), dies of heart failure at 81   
      
   1991 - Robert Maxwell, Czech-British billionaire publisher, politician and   
   fraudster (Mirror Group, NY Daily News), drowns at sea at 68   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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