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Historical Events

1851 - 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America set up in Montreal

1922 - 15th Women's Australasian Championships (1st for women): Margaret Molesworth beats Esna Boyd (6-3, 10-8)

1968 - KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting

1973 - "Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances

1980 - 61°F in Boston at 1 AM

1990 - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)

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Famous Birthdays

1594 - Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)

1847 - George Grossmith, British actor, comedian and writer (The Diary of a Nobody, A Society Clown), born in London, England (d. 1912)

1906 - Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and US Navy admiral who invented the first compiler for a universal computer programming language and is credited with coining the phrase 'debugging', born in NYC, New York (d. 1992)

1932 - Donald Byrd, American jazz trumpeter (Black Byrd), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2013)

1944 - Ki Longfellow, American novelist

1973 - Tony Batista, infielder (Oakland A's), born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

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Famous Deaths

1565 - Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian Pope (1559-65), dies at 66

1916 - Natsume SÅseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)

1948 - Sir Timothy O'Brien, cricketer (Bart 5 Tests England 1884-96), dies

1957 - Carswell Adams, sportscaster (Your Sports Special), dies

1964 - Edith Sitwell, English poet and author (Wheels), dies at 77

1996 - Ivor Roberts-Jones, British sculptor (known for sculpted heads of Yehudi
Menuhin and George Thomas), dies at 83

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