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1923  80000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law   

1925  George Kaufman's "Butter and Egg Man," premieres in NYC   

1925  Barry Linehan, actor (Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft).   

1926  Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title   

1926  Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title   

1926  John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist (Round Midnight)   

1928  Robert Helps, composer   

1929  Wally Whyton, musician/broadcaster.   

1929  Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64.   

1930  Ray Charles, American singer is born.   

1930  Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62   

1932  Kingdom of Hejaz andNejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.   

1932  Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.   

1933  Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12   

1936  Giants Carl Hubbell notches his 16th en route to 24 consecutive claims   

1937  Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit   

1937  Caro Roma, composer, dies at 68   

1938  Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1100' of microfilm)   

1938  British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich.   

1939  Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits and beat Phillies 22-4   

1939  Sigmund Freud, created psychoanalysis, dies at 83.   

1940  Japanese troops enter IndoChina.   

1940  -27] French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees   

1941  inaugural gassing experiments are made at Auschwitz   

1941  General de Gaulle forms govt in exile in London.   

1942  HMAS VOYAGER (RAN),lost in the East Indies, south coast of Timor ran aground, possibly bombed by Japanese aircraft (sources vary) and destroyed by own forces.   

1942  Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions.   

1944  Colijn, Neth PM, buried.   

1947  Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged.   

1948  Braves clinch NL pennant   

1949  Truman announces evidence of USSR's inaugural nuclear device detonation.   

1949  Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant   

1950  In this year, Patty Berg claims LPGA Sunset Hills Golf Open.   

1952  inaugural closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event.   

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1158  Geoffrey ii: Duke of brittany   

1161  Emperor takakura of japan: Emperor takakura of japan (d. 1181)   

1215  Kublai khan of the mongol empire: Kublai khan of the mongol empire (d. 1294)   

1434  Yolande of valois: Duchess of savoy   

1555  Louise de coligny: French 4th wife of willem of orange   

1591  Michael lohr: Composer   

1596  Joan blaeu: Cartographer/publisher   

1598  Eleonore gonzaga: Wife of ferdinand ii, holy roman emperor   

0079  Death of Pope linus: Pope linus   

0775  Constantine v copronymus: Emperor of byzantium (720-75),   

0918  Koenraad i: German duke/king (911-18),   

0965  Aboe a-taia-h al-moetanabbi: Arabic royal poet (diwan), murdered   

1241  Snorri sturluson: Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)   

1390  John i: Duke of lorraine (b. 1346)   

1535  Death of Catherine of saxe-lauenburg: Queen of gustav i of sweden (b. 1513)   

1541  Death of Philippus a paracelsus: Swiss physician/alchemist,