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1861 - Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns
1916 - French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun
1964 - Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep A's in Kansas City
1966 - Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government
1969 - WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1973 - Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London
1975 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
1979 - Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
1990 - Ian Smith 173* NZ v India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
1998 - Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.

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1776 - John Walter II, London, chief proprietor (The Times, 1812-47)
1824 - Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1863 - Franz von Stuck, German painter (Der Krieg)
1868 - W E B DuBois, famous African black civil rights activist and leader
1904 - Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded (CP Palestina)
1940 - Jermyn P Brooks, CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)
1962 - Michael Wilton, rock guitarist (Queensrijche-Warning)
1973 - Robert Pipkins, Staten Island NY, luger (Olympics-1994)
1977 - Angie Trostel, Oxford Ohio, diver (Olympics-96)
1977 - Kristina Šmigun, Estonian cross-country skier

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