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1939  Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe   

1940  38 German aircrafts shot down above England.   

1941  British PM Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter.   

1942  - Sept 30] SS begins exterminating 3500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland.   

1942  Richard Heinrich Stein, composer, dies at 60.   

1943  Flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg, 200 Squadron, RAF, won the Victoria Cross over the North Sea.   

1943  Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov.   

1944  An electric powered rescue hoist was installed on an HNS-1 helicopter at CGAS Floyd Bennett Field.   

1944  British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy   

1945  Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito   

1948  Summer Olympics opens in London.   

1949  1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi).   

1949  Karl Weigl, composer, dies at 68   

1950  17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88885).   

1951  100000 acres flooded from Mississippi R in Ks, Okla, Mo and Ill   

1951  Ebbe Hamerik, composer, dies at 52.   

1952  Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan.   

1952  Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan   

1952  Riccardo Martin, composer, dies at 77.   

1953  Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies.   

1954  Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh.   

1954  BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0   

1955  Indonesia govt of Harahap forms.   

1956  In this year, Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel".   

1956  1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620.   

1956  Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)   

1957  In this year, Patty Berg claims LPGA All-American Golf Open.   

1960  Chad declares independence.   

1960  Chad gains independence from France.   

1960  In the inaugural recovery of an object after it had been in orbit, a Navy HRS-3 helicopter, operating from the Haiti Victory of the Pacific Missile Range, recovered the instrumented capsule discharged by Discoverer XIII   

1960  Chad declares Independence from France.   

1961  Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1.   

1962  Andrian G Nikolayev, is recorded as becoming 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3.   

1962  Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"   

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1467  Mary of york: English princess   

1600  Paul hallman: Composer   

1613  Cristoph kaldenbach: Composer   

1635  Thomas betterton: London, actor/dramatist (coriolanus)   

1667  Anna maria luisa de' medici: Last of the medicis   

1673  Richard mead: London, physician   

1718  Sir frederick haldimand: Swiss-born british colonial governor   

1720  Martin gerbert: Composer   

0353  Death of Magnentius: Roman usurper (b. 303)   

0449  Flavian: Patriarch of constantinople   

0480  Death of Leonidas: King of sparta (b. circa 540 bc)   

0897  Death of Wilfred the hairy: Count of barcelona   

1171  Louis i: Earl of wage/rieneck,   

1180  Death of Guillaume de/willem van sens: Fren master builder (canterbury),   

1183  Death of Christian i: Archbishop of mainz,   

1204  Death of King guttorm of norway: King guttorm of norway (b. 1199)