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   Historical Events   
      
   1919 - American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)   
      
   1959 - Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players   
      
   1967 - Rio de la Plata Treaty   
      
   1968 - CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite delivers a scathing editorial on   
   America's chances of winning the Vietnam War   
      
   1970 - NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance   
      
   1998 - Britain's House of Lords agrees to end 1,000 years of male precedence   
   by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any   
   first born son   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1691 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (Gentlemen's Magazine, coined   
   term "magazine"), born in Newton, England  (d. 1754)   
      
   1832 - Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist, (d. 1872)   
      
   1921 - András SzÅ‘llÅ‘sy, Hungarian composer, and musicologist (cataloged   
   works of Béla Bartók), born in Orăştie, Hungary (d. 2007)   
      
   1947 - Ashley Woodcock, Australian cricketer (one Test Aust v NZ 1974, only   
   knock 27), born in Adelaide, Australia   
      
   1960 - Stoney Jackson, American actor (White Shadow, Insiders), born in   
   Richmond, Virginia   
      
   1970 - Matthias Lechner, German art director, born in Mannheim, Germany   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1906 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer and pioneer aviator, dies   
   at 71   
      
   1945 - HJ Lochtman, Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen   
      
   1989 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer, dies at 91   
      
   1994 - Harold Acton, English-Italian historian and art collector, dies at 84   
      
   2010 - Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer, dies at 87   
      
   2016 - George Kennedy, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Naked Gun films), dies   
   at 91   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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