Historical Events
451 - Attila’s Huns plunder Metz
1712 - Slave revolt (NYC)
1958 - Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line
1963 - 27th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
1972 - Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature bomb explosion in Belfast
1987 - National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC
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Famous Birthdays
1922 - Kenneth Howard Peacock, composer
1947 - Eliseo Soriano, Philippine evangelist
1962 - Bonny Warner, Mount Baldy California, lugist
1967 - Steve Wisniewski, NFL guard (Oakland Raiders)
1967 - Artemis Gounaki, composer, writer and music producer
1969 - Ricky Watters, NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
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Famous Deaths
1789 - Peter Camper, anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66
1868 - D’Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation (b. 1825)
1950 - Walter Huston, dies at 66
1961 - Yusef Greiss, composer, dies at 61
2005 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (b. 1922)
2012 - Mike Wallace [Myron], American media personality, dies at 93
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