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   Historical Events   
      
   1857 - University of Calcutta founded as the first full-fledged university in   
   South Asia   
      
   1961 - Lazard Brothers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68   
      
   1986 - NHL New York Islanders Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point   
      
   1988 - 4th Sundance Film Festival: "Heat and Sunlight" wins Grand Jury Prize   
   Dramatic   
      
   1988 - Australian Open Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander wins 3rd Australian title;   
   beats home town favourite Pat Cash 6-3, 6-7, 3-6, 6-1, 8-6   
      
   2013 - A Japanese Coast guard ship engages a Taiwanese activist ship in the   
   Senkaku Islands dispute   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1712 - Georg Friedrich Schmidt, German engraver and etcher (court artist for   
   King Frederick of Prussia and Empress Elizabeth of Russia), born in Wandlitz   
   (d. 1775)   
      
   1798 - Karl von Holtei, Silesian actor, playwright and author (Die   
   Vagabunden), born in Poland (d. 1880)   
      
   1828 - Adam Jacoby Slemmer, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in   
   Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (d. 1868)   
      
   1886 - Henry King, Christiansburg Virginia, American film director (d. 1982)   
      
   1972 - Naoshi Mizuta, Japanese composer, born in KÅ   
   chi   
      
   1977 - Lenka Cenkova, Czech tennis player (1995 Futures-Vaihingen-GER), born   
   in Trinec, Czechia   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   817 - Stefanus IV, Pope (816-17), dies   
      
   1812 - Eligio Celestino,  Italian violinist and composer, dies at 72   
      
   1948 - Arthur Liebehenschel, Polish Commandant at the Auschwitz-Birkenau   
   extermination camp, executed for war crimes at 48   
      
   1995 - David Cole, American songwriter ( C+C Music Factory - "Gonna Make You   
   Sweat"), and record producer (Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, James Brown),   
   dies at 32   
      
   2003 - (Giovanni) "Gianni"Agnelli, Italian industrialist, executive (President   
   of Fiat Automobiles, 1966-96), and Italian Senator-for-life (1991-), dies of   
   prostate cancer at 81   
      
   2012 - James Farentino, American actor (The Final Countdown; Dynasty; Mary),   
   dies of heart failure at 73   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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