Historical Events
1911 - Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1940 - Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
1944 - Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg
1960 - Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon
1973 - Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ
1991 - Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant
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Famous Birthdays
1766 - Thomas Bruce, earl of Elgin and Kincardine, British diplomat
1893 - Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (From Where I Came)
1901 - Vehbi Koc, indistrialist/philanthropist
1928 - Charles David Ganao, Djambala, French Equatorial Africa, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1996-1997), (d. 2012)
1937 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
1968 - Michael Park, American actor
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Famous Deaths
1732 - Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer, dies at 51
1766 - Isabelle Farnese, queen of Spain, dies
1908 - Federico Chueca, Spanish composer, dies at 62
1962 - George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86
1976 - Tom Lowry, cricketer (early New Zealand Test captain), dies
1989 - Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, commander (French resistance), dies
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