Historical Events
1830 - Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp
1905 - Union of Sweden and Norway ends
1921 - Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia
1923 - Dutch 2nd Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
1951 - Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
1992 - The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
Famous Birthdays
1719 - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer
1900 - Ibrahim Abbud, general/premier Sudan (1958-64)
1944 - Mike Piano, rocker (Sandpipers)
1946 - Pat Sajak, Chicago, TV host (Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak Show)
1950 - Chuck Foreman, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1984 - Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
Famous Deaths
1608 - Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish royal painter, dies
1749 - Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French composer/organist, dies at 72
1956 - Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer, dies at 60
1993 - H Hardenberg, writer, dies
2007 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (b. 1918)
2009 - George Na'ope, American musician (b. 1928)
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