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1807French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon
2006Al Michaels joins NBC's "Sunday Night Football" broadcast with Johh Madden
1986Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1943FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1997Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr Pepper National Pro-Am
1950Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists
1861Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of the Confederate States of America (US Civil War)
2011Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday album reached number one on the Billboard 200 in its eleventh week on the chart.
1940Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1825House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
1970Glenn McGrath, cricketer (NSW & Australian fast bowler 1993-)
1943Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
1923Brendan Behan, Dublin Ireland, author/poet (Hostage)
1944Alice Walker, US, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian)
1864Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Clift Bacon
1991Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (42) weds equestrian Madeleine Gurdon (28) in Westminster, London
1989NBA power forward Charles Barkley (26) weds legal aide Maureen Blumhardt in Elkton, Maryland
1957Actor Richard Harris (26) weds socialite Elizabeth Rees (20)
1881Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), dies at 59
1906Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio
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