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Historical Events

1804 - Scottish explorer Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River

1858 - Charles Halle founds Halle Orchestra in Manchester, England

1933 - Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match

1945 - "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die

1961 - Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC

1962 - UN General Assembly censures Portugal over Angola

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Famous Birthdays

1915 - Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer/theory (Capitaine Bruno)

1922 - Pal Jardanyi, composer

1928 - Harold Prince, US producer/director (West Side Story, Evita)

1931 - John Crosbie, Canadian politician

1943 - Sandy Deane, American rocker (Jay and the Americans), born in Brooklyn, New York

1981 - Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer, born in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

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Famous Deaths

1384 - Louis II, Count of Flanders, dies at 53

1881 - Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58

1975 - Boris Blacher, German composer (Purloined Letter), dies at 72

2005 - Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)

2015 - Ezra Sims, American composer of microtonal music, dies at 88

2015 - Carl Djerassi, Austrian-born American chemist and father of the contraceptive pill, dies at 91

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