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   Historical Events   
      
   1862 - Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Sumner meet with President Abraham   
   Lincoln at The White House, Washington   
      
   1937 - Stapleton, Staten Island, becomes a customs-free port   
      
   1948 - Important South African anti-apartheid novel "Cry the Beloved Country"   
   by Alan Paton is published in the US   
      
   1975 - "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances   
      
   2009 - Australian Open Men's Tennis: Spanish ace Rafael Nadal wins his first   
   Australian title; beats Roger Federer 7-5, 3-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-2   
      
   2013 - 26 people are killed after a fireworks truck explodes and causes a   
   highway to collapse in Henan, China   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1635 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist and classical scholar famous for   
   his collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions, born in Rendsburg, Holstein   
   (d. 1689)   
      
   1801 - Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Swedish lieder and classical composer, born in   
   Skänninge, Sweden (d. 1878)   
      
   1920 - Kenneth Bond, former vice-chairman   
      
   1955 - Virginia Leng, British equestrian rider (World C'ship individual 1986;   
   Olympic silver x 2, bronze x 2 1984, 88), born in Malta   
      
   1971 - Michael C. Hall, American actor (Dexter, Six Feet Under), born in   
   Raleigh, North Carolina   
      
   1984 - Lee Thompson Young, American actor, born in Columbia, South Carolina   
   (d. 2013)   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1981 - Nils Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer, dies at 72   
      
   1986 - Dick James [Leon Vapnick], British dance band vocalist and Beatles'   
   music publisher (Northern Songs), dies of a heart attack at 65   
      
   1992 - Irving Kaufman, American federal judge (Rosenberg Case), dies at 81   
      
   2003 - Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut (STS 87) and the first woman of   
   Indian descent to go to space, dies in Space Shuttle Columbia disaster at 40   
      
   2003 - Michael P. Anderson, American astronaut and member of the STS-107   
   Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), dies at 43   
      
   2007 - Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader, dies at 60   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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