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1722Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, ends tax on men with beards
19809th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
402Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten
195216th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 286
19471st Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David Wayne & Patricia Neal win for theatrical achievements
1663King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
46 BCJulius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
195822nd Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284
198615th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
1889George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time
1937Billy Dee Williams, Harlem NYC, actor (Chiefs, Empire Strikes Back)
1969Paul Rudd, Passaic, New Jersey, American actor (Clueless, The 40-Year-Old Virgin)
1975Zach Braff, South Orange, New Jersey, American actor (Dr. John Dorian-Scrubs)
1483Raphael Sanzio, Urbino, Italy, Italian painter/master builder (Madonna Sistina and School of Athens) (birthday in the Julian calendar)
1937Merle Haggard, Bakersfield California, country singer (Death Valley Days)
1928James Watson, American chemist (co-discovered structure of DNA)
189623rd US President Benjamin Harrison (63) weds Mary Scott (37) at St Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City
1868Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife
1920Physicist Erwin Schrödinger (32) weds Annemarie Bertel
1997Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan (71) weds NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell (50) at Little Washington in Washington, Virginia
1953MLB baseball player Ernie Banks (22) weds Mollye Louise
1979Singer Rod Stewart & model Alana Collins wed
1992Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72
1971Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies of pneumonia at 88
1199Richard I, the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies at 41
1998Tammy Wynette, American country singer, dies at 55
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