Historical Events
1776 - Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies)
1817 - Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
1942 - Compulsory work for women, children and old males in Batavia
1962 - WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1986 - Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7)
1990 - Oakland beats NY 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year
Famous Birthdays
1878 - Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
1898 - Frank "Fordham Flash" Frisch, NYC, baseball player (NL MVP 1931)
1926 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
1960 - Hugh Grant, London England (4 Weddings and a Funeral, 9 Months)
1966 - Alison Sydor, Edmonton Alberta, x-ctry cyclist (Olympics-silver-96)
1978 - Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
Famous Deaths
1683 - Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded
1913 - Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician, dies
1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
1996 - Bill Monroe, bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), dies at 84
1996 - William Smith Monroe, bluegrass musician, dies at 84
2006 - Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
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