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   Historical Events   
      
   1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy   
   massacre in Poland   
      
   1959 - Smog pollution with readings higher than the 1952 'Great Smog of   
   London' hits London, with many suffering chest and lung-related illnesses   
      
   1984 - 34th NBA All-Star Game, Denver: East beats West, 154-145 (OT); MVP:   
   Isiah Thomas, Detroit Pistons, G; first All-Star Saturday; Legends Classic,   
   West wins, 64-63; first Slam-Dunk winner, Larry Nance   
      
   1985 - Oxford University refuses to award Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher an   
   honorary degree   
      
   1986 - Yoweri Museveni sworn in as President of Uganda   
      
   1988 - United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1689 - Hubert K. Poot, Dutch poet (d. 1733)   
      
   1866 - Romain Rolland, French writer (Jean-Christophe, Nobel Prize for   
   Literature 1915), born in Clamecy, France (d. 1944)   
      
   1898 - Karl Bjarnhof, Danish blind journalist and writer (The Stars Grow   
   Pale), born in Vejle, Denmark (d. 1980)   
      
   1906 - Frans Hin, Dutch yachtsman (Olympic gold 12' Dinghy 1920; aged 14 years   
   163 days), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1968)   
      
   1930 - John Junkin, British actor and scriptwriter (A Hard Day's Night), born   
   in Ealing, Middlesex (d. 2006)   
      
   1949 - Tommy Ramone [Tamás Erdélyi], Hungarian-American rock drummer and   
   bassist (Ramones), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2014)   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1763 - Louis Racine, French poet (La Religion), dies at 70   
      
   1888 - Edward Lear, English poet and author (famous for his nonsense poems -   
   The Owl and the Pussycat), dies at 75   
      
   1942 - Bion J. Arnold, American electrical engineer and inventor (railroad   
   electrification), dies at 80   
      
   1965 - Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader and impresario (Crazy Passage   
   Show), dies at 72   
      
   2012 - François Migault, French auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1976   
   runner-up; 16 F1 GP), dies from cancer at 67   
      
   2023 - Barrett Strong, American RandB vocalist ("Money (That's What I Want)"),   
   piano player, and songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine"; "Just My   
   Imagination";"Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"; "War"), dies at 81   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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