Today in History for 8th October 2014

Historical Events

1600 - San Marino adopts constitution

1908 - NY Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)

1933 - Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco as a monument to firefighters

1956 - Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn

1958 - KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting

1993 - UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa

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Famous Birthdays

1585 - Heinrich Schutz, composer

1690 - Jaime de Casellas, composer

1697 - Cornelis Consolation, Dutch portrait painter (Unseemly Love)

1900 - Zeno Octavian Vancea, composer

1910 - Raymod Gray Lewis, Ontario Canada, 4X400 relayer (Olympic-bronze-1932)

1951 - Jack O'Connell, American politician

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Famous Deaths

1728 - Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47

1886 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819)

1940 - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78

1952 - Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877)

1993 - Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73

2004 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)

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