Historical Events
1914 - US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Norman M Scott
1931 - US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1957 - Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending" premieres in NYC
1971 - WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1985 - Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
1986 - Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) and 3 km (4:18.02)
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Famous Birthdays
1863 - George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp (d. 1934)
1889 - Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat and genealogist, born in Vienna (d. 1965)
1910 - Nick Castle, American choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1968)
1965 - Xavier Bertrand, French politician
1967 - Troy Westwood, CFL kicker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 - Kristen Anderson-Lopez, American songwriter (Frozen), born in New York City
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Famous Deaths
1843 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (b. 1786)
1920 - Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer/journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies at 37
1939 - Evald Aav, Estonian composer, dies at 39
1954 - Harry Lawrence Freeman, African-American composer, dies at 84
1969 - Gerhard Fritsch, Austrian writer, dies at 44
1995 - Norman Schwartz, record Producer, dies at 66
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