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Historical Situations
1779 – Battle of Stono Ferry fought around Charleston, South Carolina (American Revolutionary War) 1919 – Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria 1919 – 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 1953 – LPGA Western Golf Open up Women’s Golfing, Money Town Club: Louise Suggs defeats Patty Berg, 6 and 5 in the last 1960 – Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1976 – Carol Fugate, Starkweather accomplice, is paroled
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Well known Birthdays
1674 – Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright (Tamerlane), Poet Laureate (1715-18), born in Small Barford, Bedfordshire (d. 1718) 1717 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor, born in Valenciennes, France (d. 1776) 1723 – Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian and clergyman, born in Middlewich, Cheshire (d. 1808) 1733 – Betty Washington, more youthful sister of George Washington, born in Westmoreland County, Colony of Virginia (d. 1797) 1743 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet and author of hymns (Lifestyle! I Know Not What Thou Artwork), born in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England (d. 1825) 1952 – John Goodman, American actor (Dan Conner on Roseanne, Babe), born in St Louis, Missouri
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Well-known Deaths
1947 – Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, American gangster who created casinos in Las Vegas, shot useless in Beverly Hills at 41 1948 – George Frederick Boyle, Australian-American composer, dies at 61 1950 – Claude Jennings, cricketer (Aust opening bat in 1912 Triangular), dies 1953 – Hendrik de Male, sociologist (Belgian Operating men and women Occasion), dies at 67 1995 – Henry Iliffe Cozens, English Royal Air Drive pilot, dies at 91 2002 – Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)
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