Historical Events
1811 - 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee
1985 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
1989 - Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
2004 - The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
Famous Birthdays
1824 - Joseph Horace Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
1861 - Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1877 - Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (d. 1966)
1908 - Stewart Myles MacPherson, broadcaster
1940 - Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996)
1951 - Dirk Kempthorne, (Sen-R Idaho)
Famous Deaths
1822 - Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61
1873 - Johan N M J, king of Saxon (1854-73), dies
1882 - Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer, dies at 64
1939 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
1971 - Duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24
2004 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936)
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