Historical Events
1932 - Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, 1st coming at 7 seconds of game
1952 - PGA approves allowing black participants
1958 - Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League
1967 - Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife)
1987 - Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874
1991 - 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves, Jeremy Irons, and Kathy Bates wins
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Famous Birthdays
1816 - Henry Gray, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1892)
1837 - William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)
1952 - Dewey Bunell, British-American musician (America-Daisy Jane), born in Borough of Harrogate, United Kingdom
1967 - Christine Tucci, American actress (Amanda Cory-Another World), born in Katonah, New York
1979 - Wiley, English Rapper (Grime), born in Bow, London
1981 - Lucho González, Argentine footballer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Famous Deaths
1795 - Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74
1874 - August Heinrich Hoffmann, German writer, dies at 75
1901 - Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (1873-74, 1977), dies at 79
1993 - William LeMassena, actor (All that Jazz), dies of lung cancer at 76
2013 - Earl Weaver, American hall of fame MLB manager, dies from a heart attack at 82
2018 - Olivia Cole, American actress (Roots, Backstairs at the White House), dies of a heart attack at 75
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