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1990Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games
1866Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)
1982Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers
1633Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun
1861Abraham Lincoln declared president in Washington DC
1578Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system
1974James 'cool papa' Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame
1942Hitler's Operation Sealion (invasion of England) cancelled
1937Bradman scores 123 SA v Queensland, 165 mins, 10-4s 1-6 in cricket
1952Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win
1944Jerry Springer, London England, talk show host (Jerry Springer Show)
1974Robbie Williams, English singer
1743Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist (d. 1820)
1910William Shockley, London, US physicist (Nobel 1956), racist
1728Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister, dies at 65
1883Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer, dies at 69
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