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1924  Jim Reeves, US country singer/actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim).   

1925  WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions.   

1926  Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia.   

1926  Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach.   

1927  Geriatric1927, English video blogger   

1929  inaugural airship flight around the Earth flying eastward completed   

1929  1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed.   

1929  Norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital)   

1930  Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval.   

1930  Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor.   

1930  Charles Bannerman, cricketer (1st three Tests for Australia), dies   

1931  45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61)   

1931  Bernhard Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th).   

1931  Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64.   

1932  Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87.   

1933  Don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86).   

1934  Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match.   

1934  Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen.   

1935  Milt coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador   

1935  Charles Shere, composer   

1935  Otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56   

1936  Carla Fracci, Milan Italy, ballerina.   

1937  Corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch MP (CDA).   

1938  Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd and last grand slam   

1939  1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)   

1940  British PM Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".   

1940  Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21.   

1940  1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain   

1941  Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4000+ Jewish males.   

1942  Dim-out regulations implemented in SF.   

1942  Isaac Hayes, American film actor is born   

1944  127 Flying Fortress Bombers drop high-explosives on the factory areas at Auschwitz, less than five miles east of the gas-chambers   

1944  "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway   

1945  Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR.   

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1517  Antoine perrenot de granvelle: Cardinal/viceroy of naples (1571-75)   

1526  Peter opmeer: Church historian/humanist (historia martyrum)   

1561  Jacopo peri: Composer   

1625  Thomas corneille: French playwright   

1632  Louis bourdaloue: French jesuit preacher   

1637  Cornelis van aerssen: Dutch governor/co-owner of surinam   

1665  Bernardus smijtegelt: Vicar (gekrookte reed)   

1666  Alphonse d' eve: Composer   

0535  Mochta of louth: Disciple of st. patrick   

0984  Death of John xiv: [petrus canepanova], italian pope (983-84),   

1153  Bernard[us] van clairvaux: French saint,   

1384  Geert great: [gerardus magnus], theologist (getijdenboek),   

1538  Death of Aefgen listinck: Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake   

1572  Death of Miguel lópez de legazpi: Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)   

1580  Death of Jeronymo osorio: Portuguese historian (b. 1506)   

1632  Valentin de boulogne: French painter, buried at 38