Historical Events
1868 - US President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
1917 - Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field
1925 - Tigers' Ty Cobb is 1st to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends 1,139)
1930 - Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - "Rhinestone Cowboy" single released by Glen Campbell (Billboard Song of the Year 1975)
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Famous Birthdays
1264 - Prince Koreyasu, 7th Japanese shogun, born in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan (d. 1326)
1915 - Antonia Forest, British children's author (d. 2003)
1926 - Miles Davis, American jazz musician, trumpeter and composer, born in Alton, Illinois (d. 1991)
1966 - Anthony Edwards, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1968 - Fernando León de Aranoa, Spanish film director
1990 - Zenouska Mowatt, granddaughter of English princess Alexandra
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Famous Deaths
1876 - Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian/MP, dies at 77
1969 - Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
1993 - Cor de Great, pianist/conductor/composer (Vernissage), dies at 78
1998 - Sergey Yablonsky, Soviet and Russian mathematician and one of the founders of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics, dies at 73
2004 - Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (b. 1934)
2004 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
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