Historical Events
1944 - Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel
1973 - "A Little Night Music" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway
1979 - Larry Parrish (Expos) HRs off Rawly Eastwick (Phillies) in DH
1988 - Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin
1991 - NY MTA yanks 6,000 ads for "Dr Tusch" (Dr Jeffrey Lavigne)
1997 - Marv Albert pleads not guilty to sexual charges
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Famous Birthdays
1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
1882 - Emil Abranyi, composer
1939 - Timothy E Wirth, (Rep-D-CO, 1975- )
1946 - King Sunny Ade, Nigerian singer
1961 - Vince Coleman, American baseball player
1975 - Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
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Famous Deaths
1776 - Nathan Hale, US captain/patriot/spy, hanged by the British for spying at 21
1935 - Karl Schroder, composer, dies at 86
1959 - Josef Matthias Hauer, composer, dies at 76
1994 - Mattie Moss Clark, gospel Singer, dies at 69
1999 - George C. Scott, American actor (Dr. Strangelove), dies of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm at 71
2007 - Bodinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)
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