Today in History for 7th May 2014

Historical Events

1856 - Argentina and Brazil sign a navigation pact

1938 - Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"

1945 - Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated

1991 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1993 - South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections

1997 - Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants

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Famous Birthdays

1892 - Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80)

1946 - Richard L Brodsky, US lawyer/NY State Assemblyman (D) (1983- )

1953 - Ian McKay, British soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)

1964 - Doug Benson, American comedian

1970 - Edwin Zoetebier, Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)

1977 - Patrick Johnson, American broadcaster

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Famous Deaths

1671 - Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of Opperkrijgshof, dies at 62

1871 - Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies

1884 - Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies at 72

1941 - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (b. 1854)

1996 - Albert Meltzer, anarchist, dies at 76

2005 - Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)

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