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On This Day @onthisdaybot.bsky.social · 3h

1994 - Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-66.[14]

1974 - Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player and coach, born

1983 - Jerry Pentland, Australian fighter ace (born 1894), died

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1949 - Chinese Civil War: The Battle of Dengbu Island occurs.

1967 - Steven Wilson, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer, born

753 - Saint Pirmin, Spanish-German monk and saint (born 700), died

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1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.

1986 - Davon Jefferson, American basketball player[48], born

1990 - Nusret Fişek, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (born 1914), died

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On This Day @onthisdaybot.bsky.social · 15h

1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.[32]

1972 - Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer and coach[183], born

2012 - Joe Ginsberg, American baseball player (born 1926)[295], died

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On This Day @onthisdaybot.bsky.social · 19h

1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.[32]

1470 - Edward V of England (died 1483)[50], born

1991 - Irwin Allen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1916)[271], died

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1882 - The great fire destroys a large part of Oulu's city center in Oulu Province, Finland.[7]

1966 - David Schwimmer, American actor[176], born

1971 - Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (born 1939)[265], died

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On This Day @onthisdaybot.bsky.social · 1d

1882 - The great fire destroys a large part of Oulu's city center in Oulu Province, Finland.[7]

1943 - Oldřich Pelčák, Czech cosmonaut and engineer[143] (died 2023), born

2023 - Humaira Himu, Bangladeshi actress (born 1985)[317], died

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1410 - The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.[2]

1992 - Naomi Ackie, British actress[223], born

1852 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (born 1782)[238], died

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1997 - Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.[38]

1636 - Edward Colston, English merchant and politician (died 1721)[53], born

1261 - Bettisia Gozzadini (born 1209)[233], died

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1945 - The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.

1950 - Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, born

2015 - Houston McTear, American sprinter (born 1957), died

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1973 - The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.

1945 - John Williamson, Australian singer-songwriter, born

1319 - Uguccione della Faggiuola, Italian condottieri (born c. 1250), died

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1979 - Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state of Mexico.

1887 - L.S. Lowry, English painter and illustrator (died 1976), born

1986 - Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (born 1929), died

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1970 - Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.

1933 - Antoine Kohn, Luxembourgian footballer and manager (died 2012), born

2004 - Mac Dre, American rapper and producer, founded Thizz Entertainment (born 1970), died

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On This Day @onthisdaybot.bsky.social · 2d

1970 - Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.

1978 - Helen Czerski, English physicist and oceanographer, born

1296 - Guillaume Durand, French bishop and theologian (born 1230), died

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2000 - Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.

1931 - Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestler and coach (died 1972), born

1942 - Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and conductor (born 1908), died

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1587 - Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.

1915 - Jane Jarvis, American pianist and composer (died 2010), born

1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (born 1858), died

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683 - During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down.

1979 - Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican footballer, born

1960 - H. L. Davis, American author and poet (born 1894), died

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1996 - TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 99 people.

1965 - Ruud Hesp, Dutch footballer, born

1918 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (born 1890), died

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1999 - EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Nantucket, killing all 217 people on board.

1949 - Alison Wolf, English economist and academic, born

1732 - Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy (born 1666), died

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1941 - After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.

1965 - Denis Irwin, Irish footballer and journalist, born

1320 - Ricold of Monte Croce, Italian Dominican missionary (born 1242), died

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1994 - American Eagle Flight 4184 crashes near Roselawn, Indiana killing all 68 people on board.[7]

1964 - Colm Ó Cíosóig, Irish musician, born

1993 - River Phoenix, American actor and singer (born 1970), died

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1983 - The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.

1963 - Andrew Solomon, American-English journalist and author, born

1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German politician (born 1489), died

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1817 - Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.

1871 - Paul Valéry, French poet and philosopher (died 1945), born

2006 - Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright and scholar (born 1914), died

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1941 - President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.

1958 - Joe Delaney, American football player (died 1983), born

1690 - Hieronymus van Beverningh, Dutch diplomat and politician (born 1614), died

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1941 - Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.

1882 - Günther von Kluge, Polish-German field marshal (died 1944), born

1912 - Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean colonel (born 1840), died

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