Historical Events
1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
1914 - Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66: he made 69 runs
1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)
1944 - World War II: Operation Spring - one of Canada's bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed
1978 - Cincinnati Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
1997 - QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs
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Famous Birthdays
1626 - Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist/poet/historian
1896 - Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander (Normandy)
1907 - Jack Gilford, American actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2), born in NYC, New York
1930 - Maureen Forrester, contralto (Ressurection Symphony), born in Montreal, Quebec
1943 - Roy Acuff Jr, American country musician
1951 - Vanessa, [Conny Witteman], Dutch model/singer
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Famous Deaths
1471 - John Soreth, French general, dies
1676 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
1681 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
1791 - Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
1918 - Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentine poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies
2003 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
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