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1945  35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia.   

1946  Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus.   

1946  H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79.   

1947  Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies.   

1948  Satchel Paige at 42 pitches his inaugural major league complete game   

1948  Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game.   

1948  Edwin Maxwell, actor (Taming of the Shrew), dies at 62.   

1950  In this year, Babe Didrikson-Zaharias claims LPGA World Golf Championship   

1951  Great-Britain and Iraq sign new oil contract.   

1953  Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee   

1953  4-5 million French go on strike against economizations   

1953  Dmitri Arakishvili, composer, dies at 80.   

1954  21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93470)   

1954  Hermann W S Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer, dies at 71.   

1955  The opening of the Canso Causeway, linking Cape Breton Island to the Nova Scotia mainland.   

1955  Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield   

1956  WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting   

1956  Harry Donnan, cricketer (5 Tests for Australia 1891-96), dies.   

1958  Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit 3, Cleveland 2   

1959  Milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit).   

1959  Henry Garat, actor (Congress Dances), dies at 57.   

1960  Central African Republic and Chad proclaim independence from France.   

1961  Border between east and west Berlin sealed off by East Germans.   

1961  Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day).   

1961  Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany   

1961  Adeline De Walt Reynolds, actress (Son of Dracula), dies at 78   

1962  Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously.   

1963  Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum.   

1964  1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire.   

1967  In the Pyrenees a 5.3 quake resulted in numerous buildings were destroyed in Arette, Oloron, and Montory; one person was killed and 80 were injured.   

1967  WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting.   

1967  Jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87.   

1970  Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer, dies at 75.   

1971  Paul and Linda McCartney release "The Back Seat of My Car"   

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0582  Arnulf of metz: French bishop and saint   

1311  King alfonso xi of castile and leon: King alfonso xi of castile and leon (d. 1350)   

1422  William caxton: 1st english printer (histories of troy)   

1584  Theophilus howard: 2nd earl of suffolk, english politician   

1617  Johann a quenstedt: German lutherian theologist   

1625  Rasmus bartholin: Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist   

1655  Johann christoph denner: Inventor (clarinet)   

1662  Charles seymour: 6th duke of somerset, english politician   

0586  Radegund: Wife of clotaire i   

0587  Radegundis: Daughter of thurings king berthar/saint,   

0662  Maximus confessor: Greek theologist/crusader,   

0900  Death of Zwentibold: King of lutherans (895-900),   

1134  Irene [pirisca]: Byzantine empress,   

1191  Death of Philips van heinsberg: Archbishop of cologne,   

1278  Death of Daikaku: Zen teacher rinzai line/head of kenchoji,   

1382  Eleanor of aragon: Wife of john i of castile (b. 1358)