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1979"The Deer Hunter", starring Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken, is released
1927Pres Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FRC)
1909Russian Tsar Nicholas II dissolves Finnish Diet
1906Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1910George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," premieres in London
303Emperor Diocletian begins policy of persecution of Christians razing church at Nicomedia
1968Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points
1985Goaltender Patrick Roy makes his NHL debut for the Montreal Canadiens
200042nd Grammy Awards: Smooth, Christina Aguilera wins
1919Fascist Party forms in Italy by Benito Mussolini
1685George Frideric Handel, Halle Germany, baroque composer and (Messiah, Water Music)
1889Victor Fleming, American director (Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind), (d. 1949)
1994Dakota Fanning, American actress
1949Marc Garneau, Quebec City Quebec, Canadian astronaut (STS 13, 77)
2003Actor Paul Rudd (33) weds publicist Julie Yaeger
2013Former "Married ... with Children" actress Christina Applegate (41) weds rocker Martyn LeNoble (43) in Los Angeles
1995James Herriot [Alfred Wight], Scottish author (All Creatures Great & Small), dies at 78
1855Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies
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
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