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   Historical Events   
      
   1574 - France begins 5th "holy war" against Huguenots   
      
   1822 - Boston, Massachusetts, is incorporated as a city   
      
   1921 - 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from San   
   Francisco   
      
   1999 - Hip Hop artist Eminem releases his first major record album 'The Slim   
   Shady LP' (Grammy 2000 - Rap album)   
      
   2020 - African American Ahmaud Arbery shot to death after being chased down by   
   two white men in Brunswick, Georgia. Video of the killing emerges in May,   
   prompting arrests.   
      
   2020 - First major COVID-19 outbreak in Europe in Italy with 152 cases and   
   three deaths, prompting emergency measures, locking down 10 towns in Lombardy   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1938 - Sylvia Chase, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20), born in Saint Paul,   
   Minnesota   
      
   1953 - Satoru Nakajima, Japanese racing driver   
      
   1965 - Robert "Bob" Ferguson, American politician (Democratic Party) and   
   Attorney General of Washington, born in Seattle, Washington   
      
   1973 - Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans), born in   
   Huskvarna, Sweden   
      
   1973 - Jack Case, American artist   
      
   1994 - Dakota Fanning, American actress (I Am Sam, Man of Fire), born in   
   Conyers, Georgia   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1669 - Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian (Matters of State and War), dies at   
   68   
      
   1930 - Horst Wessel, German nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22   
      
   1937 - Claude Buckenham, cricketer (21 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies   
      
   1987 - Esmond Knight, British actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder), dies from a   
   heart attack at 80   
      
   1992 - Jacquelyn Hyde, American actress (Dark, House of Terror), dies at 61   
      
   1994 - Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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