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   Historical Events   
      
   1121 - Dirk VI becomes count of Holland   
      
   1903 - Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC   
      
   1941 - World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it   
   joined the Axis Pact.   
      
   1946 - Kingman Douglass becomes deputy director of CIA   
      
   1959 - Ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Sydney Opera House at   
   Bennelong Point, Sydney   
      
   1970 - American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1481 - Franz von Sickingen, German knight, born in Bad Münster am   
   Stein-Ebernburg, Germany (d. 1523)   
      
   1908 - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (d. 1968)   
      
   1917 - John Gardner, English classical composer, born in Manchester, England   
   (d. 2011)   
      
   1963 - Tanyu Kiryakov, Bulgarian pistol shooter (Olympic gold 10m air pistol   
   1988, 50m pistol 2000), born in Ruse, Bulgaria   
      
   1970 - Alexander Armstrong, British comedian, TV presenter and baritone singer   
   (Armstrong and Miller, Pointless), born in Rothbury, Northumberland   
      
   1982 - Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish ice hockey goaltender (Olympic gold 2006; NHL   
   Vezina Trophy 2012; NY Rangers), born in Ã…re, Sweden   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   986 - Lotharius, King of France (954-86), dies at 44   
      
   1797 - Horace Walpole, British horror writer (Castle of Otranto), dies at 79   
      
   1822 - Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber, composer, dies at 40   
      
   1868 - Carl Eberwein, German composer and violinist, dies at 81   
      
   1970 - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (b. 1888)   
      
   1975 - Jean Kurt Forest, German composer, dies at 65   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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