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   Historical Events   
      
   1837 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston   
      
   1895 - -17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)   
      
   1899 - -15°F (-26°C), Washington, D.C. (district record)   
      
   1908 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England   
      
   1964 - Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington, D.C. Coliseum   
      
   1977 - 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1377 - King Ladislas of Naples (d. 1414)   
      
   1897 - Yves de La Casiniere, French composer, born in  Angers, France (d. 1971)   
      
   1908 - Vivian Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (led Commonwealth   
   Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1st to cross Antarctica via South Pole), born in   
   Freshwater, Isle of Wight (d. 1999)   
      
   1941 - Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman (Species, Mrs Soffel, Return of the Jedi)   
      
   1967 - Derek King, Canadian NHL left wing (NY Islanders), born in Hamilton,   
   Canada   
      
   1969 - Mark Atkinson, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (Tasmanian batsman),   
   born in Sydney, Australia   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1879 - Willem Josephus van Zeggelen, Dutch author, dies at 67   
      
   1931 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76   
      
   1982 - Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at 76   
      
   1993 - Joy Garrett, American actress (Jo Johnson-Days of Our Lives), dies of   
   liver failure at 47   
      
   1994 - Sorrell Booke, American actor (Boss Hogg in Dukes of Hazard), dies of   
   colorectal cancer at 64   
      
   2017 - Harvey Lichtenstein, American head of the Brooklyn Academy of Music,   
   dies at 87   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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