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1993Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
1987Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1970Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
1996Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
192640th US Women's Tennis: Molla Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (4-6 6-4 9-7)
1933Mahatma Gandhi released from Indian jail following yet another hunger strike
1954President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily
1541French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
406Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians
1799Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1946Keith Moon, English rock drummer (Who-I'm A Boy)
1970River Phoenix, Madras Oregon, actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me)
1978Kobe Bryant, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1930Vera Miles, [Ralston], Boise City ID, actress (Psycho)
1942Nancy Richey Gunther, San Angelo Texas, tennis player (US Doubles 1965, 66)
1769Georges Cuvier [Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier], Montbéliard, France, French naturalist and zoologist
1975Actress Maggie Smith (40) weds playwright Beverley Cross (44) at the Guildford Register Office in Surrey, England
2003"The Hours" actress Julianne Moore (42) weds "The Myth of Fingerprints" director Bart Freundlich (33) in New York
1978Actress Kate Jackson (29) weds actor Andrew Stevens (23) in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
1962Musician and member of the Beatles, John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell
1876Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley weds traveling show marksman Frank E. Butler
2014Actress Angelina Jolie (39) weds actor and film producer Brad Pitt (50) in Correns, France
1926Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in NY at 31
2006Ed Warren, American paranormal investigator, dies at 79
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