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1993Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
1711Surrounded Tsar Peter the Great flees Azov
1978Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games
1944Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
1914Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II (WW I) of Russia in WWI
1951David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
1936Adolf Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
1957Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln)
1946US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
1991Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires
1963Coolio [Artis Leon Ivey Jr.], Monessen Pennsylvania, rapper (Gangsta Paradise)
1819Herman Melville, New York, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd), (d. 1891)
1744Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, Paris, French naturalist (Lamarckian evolution)
10 BCClaudius, Lugdunum Gaul, Roman Emperor (41-54)
1951Actor Max Von Sydow (22) weds actress Christina Olin
1986Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal
1942Actress Janet Leigh (14) weds childhood sweetheart John Kenneth Carlisle (18) in Reno, Nevada
1912Physicist Niels Bohr (26) weds Margrethe Norlund at a civil ceremony in Slagelse, Denmark
1995F1 driver Michael Schumacher (26) weds Corinna Betsch in Kerpen, Germany
2009Actress-comedian Mary Lynn Rajskub (38) weds personal trainer Matthew Rolph in an impromptu wedding in Las Vegas
2009Fashion model Rhea Durham (34) weds actor and producer Mark Wahlberg (41) at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills
2010"Dawson's Creek" actor James Van Der Beek (33) weds business consultant Kimberly Brook at the Kabbalah Center in Tel Aviv, Israel
30 BCMark Antony, Roman Politician and General, commits suicide after he is defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium at 53
1980Strother Martin, actor (Slapshot), dies of heart attack at 61
1464Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence, dies at 74
2009Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (1986-1992) (b. 1933)
1903Calamity Jane [Martha Jane Canary], American frontierswoman, dies at 51
1944Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, Second President of Philippines (1935-42), dies of tuberculosis at 65
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