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In 2012, the White House responded to a petition to have a Death Star built by stating that “the Administration does not support blowing up planets” and that it would not fund a weapon “with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship”.
In the 1970s Intervision Song Contest, the Communist equivalent to Eurovision, viewers would vote by turning on lights at a given moment; power plants would measure the load to help determine the winner.
In 2009, during a bar fight in Dublin, a man had his hand cut off with a samurai sword. He proceeded to punch his attacker in the face with the stump.
In Oslo Norway, there is a free medical clinic for undocumented immigrants. They will even provide patients with a translator at no charge.
The Austin, TX clock tower shooter left a suicide note saying he felt that there was something wrong with his brain as he knew what he was doing was wrong and couldn’t stop it. An autopsy revealed a brain tumor pressing on the amygdala.
1882 - 1st large-scale test of Thomas Edison's light bulb - lighting of NY's Pearl Street Station
1933 - 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il
1945 - Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded
1966 - Jim Hogan wins Europe marathon (2:20:04.6)
1984 - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years
1991 - "Most Happy Fella" opens at NY State Theater NYC
1824 - Anton Bruckner, Ansfelden, Austria, Wagner disciple and "monumental bore"/composer
1892 - Darius Milhaud, Aix-en-Provence France, composer (Maximilien)
1914 - Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive, third postwar chairman of Volkswagen (d. 2003)
1961 - Rizwan-uz-Zaman, Pakistani cricketer
1962 - Kiran More, Indian cricketer
1966 - Debra Lewin, South Burlington Vermont, Miss Vermont-America (1991)
1784 - Cesar F Cassini "the Thury", French astronomer (geodesic labor), dies
1916 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
1964 - W Bergengruen, writer, dies at 71
1980 - Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist, dies at 74
1985 - Isabel Jeans, actress (Suspicion, Easy Virtue, Tovarich), dies at 93
1989 - Georges Simenon, Belgian/French writer/director (Maigret), dies at 86
