Historical Events
1904 - Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the Pacific; it recognizes Chile's possession of the coast, but provides for construction of a railway to link La Paz, Bolivia, to Arica on the coast
1934 - Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau"
1935 - Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels
1944 - US 1st army wins battle of Aachen
1955 - Publication of "The Return of the King", the 3rd and final volume of "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien - 2nd best-selling novel
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Hillside Golf Open
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Famous Birthdays
1784 - Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs
1919 - Tracy Hall, American inventor (d. 2008)
1932 - Roosevelt Brown, Virginia, NFL hall of fame tackle (NY Giants)
1954 - Steve Orich, orchestrator
1963 - Julie Payette, Montreal Quebec, astronaut
1965 - Chad Hennings, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
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Famous Deaths
1139 - Henry X the Trotse, duke of Bayern (1126-38), dies
1438 - Jacopo di Piero della Quercia, Italian sculptor, dies at about 64
1525 - Joannes Custos, S Neth humanist, dies at about 50
1819 - Lambert-Francois Godecharle, composer, dies at 66
1865 - Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerrilla (b. 1821)
1977 - Steve Gaines, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in air crash at 28
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