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Historical Events

1893 - 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)

1916 - Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures, the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers

1947 - 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar

1985 - Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport" premieres in NYC

1987 - France performs nuclear test

2017 - Martin Truex Jr., driving for Furniture Row Racing, wins Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Florida to claim Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series by 5 points from Kyle Busch

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Famous Birthdays

1600 - Charles I, King of England (1625-49) who was executed by Parliament, born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland (d. 1649)

1835 - Fitzhugh Lee, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1905)

1906 - Jacques Leguerney, composer

1925 - Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-born sociologist (Modernity and the Holocaust), born in Poznań (d. 2017)

1974 - Orlando Fuentes, Ellsworth AFB SD, half-lightweight judoka (Olympics 1996)

1976 - Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)

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Famous Deaths

1630 - Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Opella Nova), dies at 44

1942 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer (The Street of Crocodiles), shot and killed by German Nazi at 50

1994 - Julian Gustave Symons, British crime writer and poet, dies at 82

1998 - Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)

2004 - Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)

2007 - Kevin DuBrow, American heavy metal singer (Quiet Riot), dies of an overdose at 53

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