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1933  Don McNeill's Pepper Pot (Breakfast Club) begins 35½ year run on NBC.   

1933  Bert Convy, St Louis MO, game show host (Win, Lose or Draw).   

1935  Anthony Eden offers Mussolini, Somalian harbor.   

1935  Maurice Ferre, former mayor of Miami.   

1938  Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established.   

1938  Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium.   

1939  France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (the Hatay) to Turkey.   

1939  Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to become wrestling champ.   

1940  Marcel Louette seeks opposition group "White Brigade" on Antwerp   

1941  Germany occupies Telz Lithuana.   

1942  World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.   

1943  Dutch artsens protest against nazis.   

1944  4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153   

1945  In this year, 77th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Pavot claims in 2:30.2.   

1945  Lt Gen Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa   

1947  Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress   

1947  Compton and Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt v S Africa.   

1949  inaugural 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School   

1949  1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School   

1950  Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women.   

1951  British diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, two soviet spies, flee to the USSR.   

1951  British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to USSR.   

1951  Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage and $14M property-Kansas).   

1951  Armin Knab, German composer (Wunderhorn), dies at 70.   

1952  US airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu Korea.   

1953  In this year, Patty Berg claims LPGA All-American Women Golf Tournament.   

1954  122°F (50°C), Overton, Nevada (state record until June 29, 1994).   

1955  Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" released   

1956  Colonel Nasser elected as President in Egypt.   

1956  Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt   

1956  "Jimmy Durante Show," last airs on NBC-TV.   

1956  Reyngol'd Moritsevich Glier, composer, dies at 81.   

1957  S B Nicholson discovers asteroid #1647 Menelaus   

1957  Louis Fornberg, writer, dies at 48.   

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1160  Johannes de matha: French saint/founder (trinitarians)   

1433  Francis ii: Duke of brittany   

1456  Margaret of denmark: Wife of james iii of scotland   

1534  Oda nobunaga: Japanese warlord   

1540  Johann baptista serranus: Composer   

1596  Johan banér: Swedish soldier   

1612  Justus g schottel: [schottelius], german poet   

1612  André tacquet: Belgian mathematician   

0079  Death of Vespasian: Roman emperor (b. 9)   

0758  Death of Ho-tse shen-hui: Zen teacher/disciple of hui-neng,   

1018  Death of Henry i of austria: Henry i of austria   

1075  Theoduinus: Beiers prince-bishop of liege,   

1137  Death of Adalbert i: Archbishop of mainz (1111-1137),   

1139  Andries van kuik: Bishop of utrecht,   

1444  Death of Marcus: [manuel] eugenicus, byzantine bishop of efeze/theologist,   

1555  Death of Pedro mascarenhas: Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)