Historical Events
1913 - Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
1942 - Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
1949 - US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1950 - General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
1963 - Indonesia and Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
1973 - "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
Famous Birthdays
1712 - Isfrid Kayser, composer
1884 - Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)
1925 - Anthony Milner, composer
1955 - Olga Rukavishnikova, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1980)
1972 - Shea Olliff, Augusta Georgia, Miss America-Georgia (1997)
1972 - Rickey Brady, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
Famous Deaths
1202 - Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies
1918 - William Courtleigh, actor (Susie Snowflake), dies at 26
1941 - E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1955 - Maharajadhiraja Tribhuvana Bir Bikram Yung Bahadur Shum Shere, dies
1965 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)
1987 - Bernhard Grzimek, West German zoologist, dies at 77
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