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1936  Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies   

1937  USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued   

1937  41st US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich   

1939  The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. is dedicated.   

1939  43rd US Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Phila CC in Phila.   

1940  HMS CALYPSO, sunk Eastern Mediterranean, south of Crete by 1 torpedo from Italian submarine 'Bagnolini'.   

1942  Tornado results in the deaths of 35 in Oklahoma City.   

1942  Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)   

1942  Walter Leigh, composer, dies at 36.   

1943  Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos   

1944  inaugural V-1 rocket reaches London.   

1944  In this year, Piolet Off. Andrew C. Mynarski (Royal Cdn. Air Force) claims the Victoria Cross for service over France.   

1944  The inaugural V1 rocket falls on England during World War 2.   

1944  1st V-1 rocket assault on London   

1945  US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa.   

1946  Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese fieldmarshal, dies   

1947  Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Brit Women's Amateur Golf Champ.   

1947  Jazeps Medins, composer, dies at 70   

1952  In British Columbia. W. A. C. Bennett 1900-1979 invited to form a Social Credit minority government after BC provincial election; start of 20 years of power for the Socreds.   

1952  Michael von Faulhaber, Cardinal/archbishop of Munich, dies at 83.   

1957  Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6270 lbs)   

1957  James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53.   

1961  The DND buys 66 F-101 Voodoos in exchange for US control of Pinetree Line, plus a Mutual Air Program for purchase of 200 Canadian-built F-104 Starfighters   

1962  USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56270 m   

1962  John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic March), dies at 82   

1963  Civil rights leader Medger Evers is shot and killed in front of his Jackson, Mississippi home.   

1963  Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80   

1964  South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment.   

1965  The Beatles are awarded the MBE.   

1966  Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74.   

1967  In this year, Israel claims 6 day war   

1967  Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)   

1967  Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages.   

1967  USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus.   

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1107  Emperor gaozong of china: Emperor gaozong of china (d. 1187)   

1468  Juan del encina: Composer   

1519  Cosmos de medici: Art patron (accademia del disegno)   

1519  Cosimo i de' medici: Grand duke of tuscany   

1526  Marc-antoine de muret: Composer   

1577  Paul guldin: Swiss astronomer and mathematician   

1599  Jan w van brederode: Governor (hertogenbosch)/fieldmarshal   

1659  Yamamoto tsunetomo: Japanese samurai   

0816  Leo iii: Italian pope (795-816),   

0918  Ethelfleda: Lady of the mercians   

1020  Death of Lyfing: Archbishop of canterbury   

1036  Death of Tedald: Bishop of arezzo   

1231  Death of Antonius van padua: [fernando m de bulhom], port minister,   

1418  Death of Bernard vii: Count of armagnac, constable of france (b. 1360)   

1435  John fitzalan: 14th earl of arundel, english military leader (b. 1408)   

1490  Adriaan vilain ii of rassegem: Peace of tours, murdered at about 39