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200951st Grammy Awards: Please Read The Letter, Adele wins
1987Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1895Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg
1976"Taxi Driver", starring Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster, is released
1672Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1991Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
1942Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
1915D. W. Griffith's silent film "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA - first 12-reel film in America
1807Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon's forces and Russian Empire - 1st battle Napoleon isn't victorious
1994Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
1955John Grisham, writer (Client, Firm, Pelican Brief)
1920Lana Turner, Wallace Idaho, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest)
1960Dino Ciccarelli, Sarnia Ontario, NHL right wing (Minnesota North Stars, Washington Capitals)
1820William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
1894Billy Bishop [William Bishop], Owen Sound, Ontario, Canadian First World War flying ace
1931James Dean, Marion IN, stage/film actor (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause)
2001MLB outfielder David Justice (34) weds model Rebecca Villalobos
1985Director Martin Scorsese (42) weds producer Barbara De Fina (35)
1725Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov], Tsar of Russia (1682-1725) dies of uremia at 52
1932[Vincent] Mad Dog Coll, mobster, killed by Dutch Schultz gang at 23
1985William Lyons, British automobile manufacturer, dies at 84
1956Connie Mack, baseball manager (Phila A's, 1901-50), dies at 93
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