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1918  Howard Cosell, Winston-Salem NC, sportscaster (Monday Night Football).   

1918  Claude A Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55.   

1919  Jeanne Cagney, actress (Lion is in the Streets, Quicksand).   

1920  Greek Independence Day   

1920  Patrick Troughton, actor (Doctor Who).   

1921  Nancy Kelly, Lowell Mass, actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James)   

1923  British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy   

1923  British govt grants Trans-Jordan autonomy   

1924  Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier   

1924  John Reedman, cricketer (Test for Aust 1894, 17 and 4, 1 for 24), dies   

1925  Greece is recorded as becoming a republic when King George is deposed   

1931  Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama   

1931  Hal Kemp and his Orch record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis.   

1934  1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith claims, shooting a 284.   

1935  1st Belgium government of Van Zealand steps down   

1936  200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground.   

1937  It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25000 per year for ads   

1937  Italy and Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade).   

1937  Lionel Conacher misses on inaugural Stanley Cup penalty shot.   

1937  Washington Daily News is inaugural US newspaper with perfumed advertising page   

1937  John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54.   

1938  1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase   

1939  Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart   

1940  Ion Nonna Otescu, composer, dies at 51.   

1941  Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon SC, incorporated   

1942  700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp   

1942  R and B vocalist Aretha Franklin born this day   

1943  Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore premiere on radio   

1943  97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt Nazi registration   

1944  Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome.   

1944  RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18000 feet without a parachute   

1945  US 4th Armored division arrives at Hanau and Aschaffenburg.   

1945  US inaugural army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen   

1945  US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa.   

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1133  Henry ii: King of england (1154-89)   

1252  Konradijn hohenstaufen: [koenrad van zwaben], son of konrad iv   

1252  Conradin: Duke of swabia   

1259  Andronikos ii palaiologos: Byzantine emperor   

1297  Andronicus iii palaeologus: Byzantine emperor   

1297  Arnost of pardubice: Archbishop of prague   

1345  Blanche of lancaster: Wife of john of gaunt   

1347  Catherine of siena: Italian saint   

1223  Death of Afonso ii: 3rd king of portugal (1211-23),   

1345  Death of Henry: 3rd earl of lancaster, english politician (b. 1281)   

1458  Death of Inigo lopez de mendoza: Spanish marquis of santillana/poet,   

1510  Death of Georges d'amboise: French archbishop of narbonne/rouen,   

1558  Marcos de niza: French franciscan explorer   

1561  Conrad lycosthenes: French-born german philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)   

1603  Ikoma chikamasa: Japanese warlord (b. 1526)   

1609  Death of Olaus martini: Swedish archbishop of uppsala (b. 1557)