Historical Events
1795 - 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
1823 - Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law in US
1828 - South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws
1965 - French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%)
1987 - Bruins' Linseman and Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart
1994 - Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature V12 engine which will be produced by BMW.
Famous Birthdays
1883 - Louis Davids, [Simon David], Dutch cabaret performer/chorus performer
1884 - Ferdinando Liuzzi, composer
1951 - Fred W Leslie, Ancon Panama, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)
1957 - John Gulager, American film director
1969 - Villano IV, Mexican professional wrestler
1984 - Ian Kennedy, Major League Baseball pitcher
Famous Deaths
1823 - Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer, dies at 67
1939 - Eric Fogg, composer, dies at 36
1984 - Michel Magne, composer, dies at 54
1991 - Ernest K Gann, US adventure novelist, dies at 81
1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
2008 - Dock Ellis, American baseball pitcher (b. 1945)
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