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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  Death of Mochta of louth: Disciple of st. patrick   

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

1153  Death of Bernard[us] van clairvaux: French saint,   

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

1538  Aefgen listinck: Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake   

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

1580  Jeronymo osorio: Portuguese historian (b. 1506)   

1632  Valentin de boulogne: French painter, buried at 38