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1939  22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok CC Flushing NY   

1939  Spencer Davis, Wales, vocalist (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin).   

1940  Phyllis Davis, Port Arthur Tx, actress (Love American Style, Vega$).   

1941  NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland   

1941  Bob Taylor, cricketer wicket-keeper (too often in Knotty's shadow)   

1942  3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding results in the deaths of 15.   

1942  Estimated 87.5 cm (34.5") of rainfall, Smethport, Pa. (state record).   

1942  Connie Hawkins, Harlem Globetrotter/NBA (Phoenix Suns, ABA MVP 1968)   

1943  RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde.   

1944  2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California results in the deaths of 322   

1944  Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies   

1945  Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds inaugural meeting   

1945  Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting   

1946  Mikhailovich resistance leader, executed by Tito regime.   

1946  Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslav gen (Nazi), executed at 53.   

1947  Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews), dies at 34   

1948  C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1685 Toro.   

1948  Proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of (South) Korea.   

1948  Israeli army captures Nazareth   

1950  Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka   

1951  King Leopold II of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I.   

1952  Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier   

1953  Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer, dies at 65.   

1954  Construction begins on Disneyland in rural Orange County.   

1954  1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)   

1954  Dirk B Nanninga, painter, dies at 85   

1955  Arco, Idaho is recorded as becoming inaugural US city lit by nuclear power   

1955  Disneyland opens in Los Angeles, CA   

1955  Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County   

1955  Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73.   

1958  King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation   

1959  2000 ft long by 1300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana).   

1959  Billie Holiday blues singer, dies of liver failure at 44 in NYC   

1959  Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600000 years old)   

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1487  Esma'il i: Shah who converted iran from sunni to shi'ah   

1487  Ismail i: Shah of persia   

1674  Isaac watts: England, writer/preacher/hymnist (horae lyrican)   

1702  Johann schneider: Composer   

1744  Elbridge gerry: (dr) 5th vp (mass-gov), invented gerrymandering   

1745  Petr alekseevich pahlen: Russian general   

1763  Johannes h van der palm: Dutch theologist/minister of education   

1763  John jacob astor: Germany, richest man in us, banker/fur trader   

0656  Death of Uthman ibn affan: Third caliph, assassinated   

0924  Edward: The older, english speaking king (899-924),   

1025  Death of Boleslaw i chobry: [the brave], duke/king of poland,   

1070  Death of Boudouin vi: Count of flanders/henegouwen,   

1345  Jacob van artevelde: [manner man], flemish broker, lynched   

1453  John talbot: 1st earl of shrewsbury, english military leader   

1510  Edmund dudley: English minister of justice/finance,   

1531  Hosokawa takakuni: Japanese military commander (b. 1484)