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1962  "Do Re Mi" closes at St James Theater NYC after 400 performances   

1962  Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42.   

1963  AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 21-14   

1963  Leonardus G Kortenhorst, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 76   

1964  Karol Wojtyla is recorded as becoming archbishop of Krakow   

1964  USS Manley evacuates 54 American and 36 allied nationals after Zanzibar government is overthrown.   

1966  inaugural black selected for Presidential cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD).   

1966  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

1967  Coup in Togo   

1967  Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show   

1968  "Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 293 performances   

1968  Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam.   

1968  Minnesota North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th).   

1968  Bill Masterson, NHL player for the Minnesota Northstars checked into the boards, dies two days later.   

1969  Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album   

1969  Fred Price, cricket wicket-keep (Engld, v Aust Headingley 1938), dies   

1971  Bernard "Heinz" Lammerding, Germ SS-gen/contractor (Tulle), dies at 65.   

1976  Margaret Leighton, Brit actress (Much ado about nothing), dies at 53.   

1978  Former U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey dies in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66   

1978  Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn, VP), dies at 66 in Waverly, Minn   

1979  Charlie Daniels hosts the Volunteer Jam   

1979  YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song.   

1979  Donny Hathaway, Chicago Ill, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33.   

1980  Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium   

1980  Togo's constitution is recorded as becoming effective   

1980  Andre Kostelanetz, Russian conductor, dies at 78   

1981  Barbara Sonntag, Colorado, crochets record 147 stitches/minutes for 30 minutes.   

1981  Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Mary, My Child), dies at 83.   

1982  Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame   

1982  Seventy-eight people die in Washington, D.C., when an Air Florida 737 crashes into a bridge after takeoff and falls into the Potomac River.   

1982  Marcel Camus, French director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69.   

1983  Arthur Space, actor (Doc Weaver-Lassie), dies of cancer at 74.   

1985  99-year-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course.   

1985  Express train derails in Ethiopia, results in the deaths of at least 428.   

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1334  King henry ii of castile: King henry ii of castile (d. 1379)   

1381  St colette: Abbess/reformer (poor clares)   

1406  Matteo palmieri: Italian writer (della vita civile)   

1505  Joachim ii hector: Ruler (brandenburg)   

1562  Mark alexander boyd: Scottish poet   

1596  Jan j goyen: Dutch landscape painter   

1610  Maria anna of austria: Electress of bavaria   

1616  Antoinette bourignon: Flemish mystic/french religious fanatic   

0086  Death of Gaius marius: Roman general and politician (b. 157 bc)   

0533  Remigius van reims: 1st bishop of reims (459-533)/saint,   

0858  Death of Aethelwolf: King of wessex (battle at aclea),   

0888  Charles iii: The fat one, king of franconia/roman emperor,   

1049  Derrick iv: Count of holland (1039-49),   

1138  Death of Simon i: Duke of lorraine (b. 1076)   

1151  Abbot suger: French statesman and historian (b. 1081)   

1177  Death of Hendrik jasomirgott babenberg: Duke of austria,