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1956At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no else hits 1 there)
1986Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
1840Samuel Morse patents his telegraph
1974"Chinatown", starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, is released
1967Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
1969Georges Pompidou sworn in as President of France
1982Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
196012th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack & Jane Wyatt win
1940Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1867US President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1952John Goodman, St Louis Mo, actor (Dan Conner-Roseanne, Babe)
1967Nicole Kidman, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Dead Calm, Far & Away)
1966Tennis champ Rod Laver (27) weds Mary Benson at St. Luke's Presbyterian Church in San Rafael, California
1938"Star Wars" actor Alec Guinness (24) weds actress Merula Sylvia Salaman (23)
1894Basketball inventor James Naismith (32) weds Maude Evelyn Sherman (23) in Springfield, Massachusetts
1962Singer Jane Froman (54) weds college friend Rowland Smith
1929Author William Faulkner (31) weds Estelle Oldham at College Hill Presbyterian Church outside Oxford, Mississippi
1998Magazine publisher Larry Flynt (55) weds Elizabeth Berrios
2005Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer and Nobel laureate, dies at 81
1947Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
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