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1970  Mary Clare, dies at 76.   

1971  Hank Aaron is recorded as becoming the inaugural player in baseball's National League to drive in 100+ runs in 11 seasons   

1972  Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, Ger night club performer/singer, dies   

1973  Michael Dunn, short actor (Justine, Boom, Madigan), dies at 38.   

1975  Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky   

1975  Eamon de Valera, Irish president (1937..59), dies at 92.   

1976  Anissa Jones, actress (Buffy-Family Affair), ODs at 18   

1977  Lou Brock breaks Ty Cobb's record by stealing the 893rd base of his baseball career   

1977  Jean Hagen, actress (Dead Ringer, Shaggy Dog, Arena), dies at 54   

1979  Mary Marquet, actress (Landru, Paris Canaille), dies at 84   

1981  Lowell Thomas, newscaster (High Adventure), dies in Pawling NY at 89   

1982  Ingrid Bergman, actress (Anastasia, Gaslight), dies on 67th birthday.   

1983  Simon Oakland, actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep), dies at 61   

1985  Atlantis moves to launch pad for the 51-J mission   

1985  Alexander Abramsky, composer, dies at 87.   

1986  Ellis Achong, cricketer (West Indies 1933-35, "chinaman"), dies.   

1987  Academy Award-winner Lee Marvin dies in Tucson, AZ, at age 63   

1987  Lee Marvin, actor (Cat Ballou, Gorky Park), dies in Tucson Ariz at 63   

1988  USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir   

1989  Off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico a 6.7 quake was felt along the coast of Jalisco. Also felt at Guadalajara and in the southern part of the Mexico City area.   

1990  C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13.   

1990  Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq.   

1990  Sandy, dog in the play Annie, dies at 16   

1991  In this year, John F Kennedy Jr claims his inaugural law case   

1991  The Communist Party ends 75 years of power in the USSR.   

1991  The Soviet Communist Party was formally suspended as leader of USSR.   

1991  Dallas Adams, British painter/writer/actor (Terror from Within), dies.   

1992  Mary Norton, children book author (Borrowers), dies at 88.   

1993  Dorian Corey, actor (Paris is Burning), dies of AIDs at 56.   

1994  The Windsor and Hantsport Railway commences operation in Nova Scotia   

1994  Arthur Ernest Mourant, haematologist, dies at 90   

1995  Frank Perry, US dir (Diary of Mad Housewife, David and Lisa), dies at 65.   

1996  A Russian plane carrying coal miners to work at a remote arctic island smashes into a mountain top, killing all 41 people aboard in the worst air disaster on Norwegian soil.   

1997  DVD's outsell Laserdiscs in the U.S   

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1387  Henry v: King of england (1413-22)/france (1416-19)   

1434  Janus pannonius: Hungarian poet/translator   

1476  Kano motonobu: Kyoto japan, co-founder (kano school of painting)   

1561  Bartholomeus pitiscus: German mathematician (trigonometry)   

1609  Sassoferrato: [giovanni b salvi], italian painter (madonna)   

1619  Jean-baptiste colbert: French minister of naval/baron   

1628  John granville: 1st earl of bath, english royalist statesman   

1632  John locke: England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance   

0029  Death of John the baptist: Beheaded   

0886  Basilius i: The macedonier, byzantine emperor (867-886),   

1093  Death of Hugh i: Duke of burgundy (b. 1057)   

1123  Death of King eystein i of norway: King eystein i of norway (b. ca. 1088)   

1395  Death of Duke albert iii of austria: Duke albert iii of austria (b. 1349)   

1442  John vi: Duke of brittany (b. 1389)   

1523  Ulrich von hutten: German poet/humanist/patriot,   

1526  Louis ii: King of hungary/bohemia,