Historical Events
1748 - Ruins of Pompeii found
1891 - Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
1945 - 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes
1963 - Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV
1973 - John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
1976 - Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs found Apple Computer
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Famous Birthdays
1872 - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
1923 - Bobby Jordan, NY, actor (Bowery Champs, Kid Dynamite, Flying Wild)
1926 - Lyndon Brook, actor (Invasion, Reach for the Sky)
1934 - Don Hastings, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Capt Video, Bob-As the World Turns)
1961 - Jennifer Runyon, actress (Cindy-A Very Brady Christmas)
1983 - Matt Lanter, American actor and model
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Famous Deaths
1621 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)
1637 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (b. 1571)
1872 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805)
1918 - Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer, dies at 64
1996 - Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director (b. 1926)
2003 - Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (b. 1956)
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