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1932Hitler refuses President Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor of Germany
198971st PGA Championship: Payne Stewart shoots 276 at Kemper Lakes GC Ill
1993Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24
1940Hermann Goering's "Adler Tag" (Eagle day); 45-48 German aircraft shot down over Southern England (Battle of Britain)
1997SD Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels
1792Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
199577th PGA Championship: Steve Elkington shoots a 267 at Riviera Calif
1886John A. Macdonald uses a silver hammer to pound a gold spike, officially completing the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway in British Columbia
1732Voltaire's "Zaire" premieres in Paris
1950US President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bao-Dai
1912Ben Hogan, Dublin Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53)
1860Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses], North Star Ohio, sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), (d. 1926)
1926Fidel Castro, Mayari, Oriente, Cuba, dictator/prime minister/president (1959-2008)
1899Alfred Hitchcock, Leytonstone Essex, English director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)
1980Actor James Woods (33) weds costume designer Kathryn Morrison
1988Musician Robert Smith (29) weds Mary Poole in UK
1946H. G. Wells, English writer, dies at 79
1995Mickey Mantle, baseball great (NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 63
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