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1968Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points
193911th Academy Awards - "You Can't Take It With You," Spencer Tracy & Bette Davis wins
1979George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album
1959Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
303Emperor Diocletian begins policy of persecution of Christians razing church at Nicomedia
200042nd Grammy Awards: Smooth, Christina Aguilera wins
1938Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1998Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.
1906Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
200345th Grammy Awards: Don't Know Why, Norah Jones wins
1949Marc Garneau, Quebec City Quebec, Canadian astronaut (STS 13, 77)
1868William E B Du Bois, Great Barrington Massachusetts, civil rights activist and writer (Souls of Black Folk)
1685George Frideric Handel, Halle Germany, baroque composer and (Messiah, Water Music)
1889Victor Fleming, American director (Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind), (d. 1949)
2013Former "Married ... with Children" actress Christina Applegate (41) weds rocker Martyn LeNoble (43) in Los Angeles
2003Actor Paul Rudd (33) weds publicist Julie Yaeger
1821John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome
1848John Quincy Adams, 6th US President (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80
1995James Herriot [Alfred Wight], Scottish author (All Creatures Great & Small), dies at 78
1855Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies
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