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   Historical Events   
      
   1933 - -63°F (-53°C), Moran, Wyoming (state record)   
      
   1940 - Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title   
      
   1943 - Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ending the epic World War II   
   battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific   
      
   1979 - ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special, featuring archival   
   performances of 62 artists   
      
   1989 - Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election   
      
   2020 - Suspected militants attack and kill at least 30 people, many while   
   sleeping in their cars in Auno, north-eastern Nigeria, kidnapping women and   
   children   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1871 - Howard T Ricketts, American pathologist (studied typhus fever), born in   
   Findlay, Ohio (d. 1910)   
      
   1914 - Ernest Tubb, American country musician ("Walking the Floor Over You"),   
   born in Crisp, Texas (d. 1984)   
      
   1937 - (Leonard) "Len" Skeat, British jazz double-bassist, born in East End,   
   London, England (d. 2021)   
      
   1950 - Lloyd Weldon Keasor, American wrestler (Olympic silver 1976), born in   
   Pumphrey, Maryland   
      
   1969 - Jeff Pahukoa, NFL guard/tackle (Atlanta Falcons)   
      
   1983 - Vladimira Krckova, Czech jazz-pop singer, composer ("Your Aura On My   
   Lips"), actress, and poet, born in ValaÅ¡ské MeziříĠ  
   Ã­, Czech Republic   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1583 - Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake   
      
   1751 - Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (1717-50), dies at 82   
      
   1938 - Truby King, pioneer of mothercraft, dies   
      
   1991 - James Cleveland, American gospel singer, dies at 59   
      
   2001 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)   
      
   2020 - Sorrel [Doris Ernestine] Hays, American pianist and composer (The Glass   
   Woman), dies of cancer at 78   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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