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1944  Mont Canadiens sweep Chicago Black Hawks for the Stanley Cup   

1944  SC rejects black suffrage.   

1944  Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 86.   

1945  Allies occupy Wien (Vienna)   

1945  President Roosevelt dies   

1945  Canadian army liberates Teuge and Assen Neth from Nazis.   

1946  Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage and price freeze over.   

1946  William Henry Bell, composer, dies at 72   

1948  75 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus   

1949  In the Puget Sound area, Washington region a 6.9 earthquake occured between Olympia and Tacoma, along the southern edge of Puget Sound. Property damage in Olympia, Seattle, and Tacoma was estimated at $25 million; eight people were killed   

1949  3rd NBA Championship: Minn Lakers beat Wash Capitols, 4 games to 2.   

1949  C V France, dies at 80.   

1952  [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong), dies at 79   

1953  1st game of Milwaukee Braves, they beat Cin Reds 2-0.   

1954  Balt Orioles 1st game, loses to Tigers in Detroit 3-0   

1955  20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record)   

1956  KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting.   

1957  Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in the US is halted.   

1957  "Shinbone Alley" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances.   

1959  USAF launches Discover II into polar orbit   

1959  Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed).   

1959  Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists   

1959  Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor, dies at 57   

1960  France is recorded as becoming the 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara.   

1960  France is recorded as becoming the 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara And atom here, an atom there   

1960  Navy's navigation satellite, Transit, placed into orbit from Cape Canaveral, FL and demonstrates ability to launch another satellite   

1960  Transit 1B, inaugural navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit.   

1961  UN General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid.   

1963  Gary Kasparov, Russian world champion chess player is born   

1964  New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day   

1964  Sidney Poitier became inaugural black man to win Oscar for best actor   

1965  Beatles record "Help".   

1965  Lawrence Bradford Jr, 16 of NYC became inaugural black congressional page.   

1966  Pan Am places $525000000 order for 25 Boeing 747s   

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1506  Peter faber: French jesuit theologian   

1519  Catherine de' médici: Queen of spain/daughter of henry ii   

1519  De medicis: Queen consort (henry ii of france)   

1545  Elisabeth van valois: French queen of spain/daughter of henri ii   

1547  Elisabeth of valois: Third wife of philip ii of spain   

1570  Guy fawkes: English catholic conspirator   

1573  Christina of holstein-gottorp: Queen consort of sweden   

1584  Albert vi of bavaria: Albert vi of bavaria (d. 1666)   

0799  Death of Paulus diaconus warnafridi: Longobardisch writer,   

0814  Krum of bulgaria: Krum of bulgaria   

1093  Death of Prince vsevolod i of kiev: Prince vsevolod i of kiev (b. 1030)   

1279  Death of Boleslaw the pious: Polish duke   

1517  Death of Tuman bey: Last mamelukken sultan of egypt, hanged   

1612  Death of Sasaki kojirō: Japanese samurai   

1635  Fakhr-al-din ii: Druze prince of lebanon (b. 1572)   

1641  Richard montagu: English clergyman (b. 1577)