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On Sun, 4 Sep 2022 06:20:47 +0000, "Today in History | OnThisDay.com" <today.in.history.|
.onthisday.com@bbs.alt119.net> wrote:
Historical Events
1282 - King of Aragon Pedro III annexes Sicily
1940 - CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB
1957 - Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to
prevent 9 black students from entering a Little Rock's Central High
School
1993 - Mats Wilander beats fellow Swede Mikael Pernfors in a US Open
marathon 7-6, 3-6, 1-6, 7-6, 6-4 in 4 hours, 1 minute; match ends at
2:26am
1994 - Bulgarian government of Lyuben Berov falls
1995 - Cult TV series "Xena: Warrior Princess" starring Lucy Lawless
and Renee O'Connor debuts in the US
More Historical Events ¯
Famous Birthdays
1853 - Hermann Wissmann, German African explorer and governor of
East-Africa, born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1905)
1913 - Stanford Moore, American biochemist (Nobel 1977), born in
Chicago, Illinois (d. 1982)
1916 - Robert A. W. Lowndes, American sci-fi author (Puzzle Planet)
(d. 1988)
1949 - Dado Topić, Croatian musician (Time; Dragonfly), born in Nova Gradiška, Croatia
1967 - Darrin Murray, New Zealand cricket batsman (8 Tests), born in Christchurch, Canterbury
1970 - Luis Lopez, Puerto Rican baseball infielder (San Diego Padres),
born in Cidra, Puerto Rico
More Famous Birthdays ¯
Famous Deaths
1916 - José Echegaray, Spanish politician and dramatist (Nobel Prize
for Literature 1904), dies at 84
1994 - Louis Myers, American blues guitarist and harmonica player,
dies at 64
1997 - Natko DevÄ楳ić, Croatian composer, dies at 83
2007 - John Scott, Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish peer, then largest
landowner in Scotland, 1st MP in a wheelchair, dies at 83
2009 - Iain Cuthbertson, Scottish actor (Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger
UXB), dies at 79
2020 - Gary Peacock, American jazz bassist (Keith Jarrett Trio), dies
at 85
More Famous Deaths ¯
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