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Historical Events

1599 - The city of Natal, Brazil, is founded.

1621 - Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony (now in Massachusetts) forbids game playing on Christmas

1905 - V Herbert/H Blossoms musical "Mlle Modiste" premieres in NYC

1946 - Constitution accepted in Taiwan

1954 - WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting

1973 - The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to
be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze.

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Famous Birthdays

1698 - Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch engraver/illustrator

1815 - Temistocle Solera, composer

1915 - Pete Rugolo, bandleader/arranger (Fugitive)

1946 - Gene Lamont, American baseball player and manager

1964 - Anil Kaul, Amritsar India, Canadian badminton player (Olympics 1996)

1971 - Terry Vaughn, CFL receiver (Calgary Stampeders), born in Sumter, South Carolina

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Famous Deaths

820 - Leo V, the Armenian, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered

1758 - James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714)

1765 - Antonio Tonelli, composer, dies at 79

1784 - Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)

1848 - Johan Erik Nordblom, Swedish composer, dies at 60

1951 - Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb

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