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1979  Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Zone.   

1979  Paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93.   

1980  4500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria.   

1980  Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated   

1980  Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies.   

1980  El Asnam earthquake in Algeria killing 5000 people   

1981  Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo.   

1982  Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint.   

1983  Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM   

1983  Sir Ralph [David] Richardson, English actor (Richard III), dies at 80   

1985  Orson Welles actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 70   

1985  US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody.   

1985  Yul Brynner actor (King and I), dies of cancer at 70.   

1985  Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70.   

1986  7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador.   

1986  Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres steps down.   

1987  In this year, Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love".   

1990  Dick Jorgensen NFL referee, dies at 56   

1990  US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space   

1990  Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67.   

1991  A former US postal worker Joseph Harris shoots two workers at the post office in Ridgewood, New Jersey   

1991  Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris results in the deaths of 4 postal workers   

1991  Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy   

1991  Redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford and Sons), dies of heart attack at 68   

1992  Floriade (Flower Show) closes at the Hague, Netherlands   

1992  James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78.   

1993  Socialists regain power in Greece.   

1993  Catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn), dies at 46.   

1994  Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95   

2006  Google buys YouTube for USD$1.65 billion   

2007  An election and referendum in the Canadian province of Ontario takes place   

2007  The SuccessTech Academy school shooting occurs in Cleveland, Ohio.   

2010  The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved, with the islands being split up and given a new constitutional status   

2012  Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G protein-coupled receptors   

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1344  Mary plantagenet: English princess   

1486  Charles iii: Duke of savoy   

1567  Infanta caterina micaela of spain: Infanta caterina micaela of spain (d. 1597)   

1599  Jacob aertsz colom: Dutch publisher (consolation of the sea)   

1678  John campbell: 2nd duke of argyll/fieldmarshal (union of 1707)   

1684  Jean antoine watteau: French rococo painter (onverschillige)   

1700  Lambert-sigisbert adam: French sculptor   

1713  Johann ludwig krebs: Composer   

0019  Death of Julius caesar germanicus: Roman commandant of rijnleger,   

0413  Death of Nicias: Athens politician (peace of nicias), killed at about 57   

0680  Hussein: Grandson of prophet mohammed, beheaded   

0732  Death of Abdul rahman al ghafiqi: Moorish governor of andalusia   

0833  Death of Al-ma'mun: Abbasid caliph of baghdad (b. 786)   

1359  Death of King hugh iv of cyprus: King hugh iv of cyprus (b. 1295)   

1616  Death of Maria van nassau: Countess of buren,   

1651  Philippus rovenius: [rouveen], apostole,