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|    Today in History for 14th February 2023    |
|    14 Feb 23 05:16:24    |
      From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@bbs.alt119.net              Historical Events              1912 - Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state              1921 - Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," in New       York              1936 - Karl Schäfer of Austria wins his 2nd consecutive men's figure skating       Olympic gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games in Germany              2005 - Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by       suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial       district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.              2010 - America's Cup: Team USA defeats Alinghi 2-0 to win in Spain              2014 - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after less than a year in       office              More Historical Events ¯       Famous Birthdays              1572 - Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet (d. 1617)              1858 - Joseph Thomson, Scottish geologist and early African explorer       (Thomson's Gazelle), born in Penpont, Dumfries, Scotland (d. 1895)              1903 - Fritz Büchtger, German composer, educator, and modern music proponent       (Association for Contemporary Music; Studio for New Music), born in Munich,       Germany (d. 1978)              1926 - Alfred Körner, Austrian soccer striker (47 caps; Rapid Wien), born in       Vienna, Austria (d. 2020)              1945 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (White Nights, Taps), born in       NYC, New York (d. 2003)              1977 - Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer, born in Ladysmith, South       Africa (d. 2007)              More Famous Birthdays ¯       Famous Deaths              1760 - François Colin de Blamont, French composer, dies at 69              1922 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (Minister of the       Interior), assassinated at 41              1929 - Tom Burke, American athlete (Olympic gold 100m, 400m 1896), dies at 53              1990 - Jean Wallace [Walasek], actress (Big Combo), dies of hemorrhage at 66              1998 - Claude Prey, French composer, dies at 72              2003 - Dolly the sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, dies       young from a progressive lung disease aged 6              More Famous Deaths ¯              https://www.onthisday.com/day/february/14              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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