Historical Events
1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1917 - Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I
1934 - AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar
1976 - Great Britain and Iceland end the "cod war"
1977 - SC Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen
1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power.
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Famous Birthdays
1892 - Samuel L M Barlow, composer
1922 - Abdul Rashid, Pakistan, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1946 - Brian Cox, actor (Killer Party, Manhunter)
1960 - Simon Gallup, English bassist (The Cure)
1970 - Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
1984 - Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racing driver
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Famous Deaths
1970 - G Ungaretti, writer, dies at 82
1983 - Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies
1986 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1958)
1996 - Don Grolnick, jazz musician, dies at 48
1996 - Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon, dies at 85
2001 - Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
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