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1959Jacques Plante becomes the first goaltender to wear a mask during a game
1990Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy PM Howe
1928Bradman scores a century each innings (131 & 133*), NSW v Qld
1611Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" 1st presented
1984Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4
1936Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis"
1950Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Harry Truman at Blair House
1604William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented
1951Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP
1932Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
1871Stephen Crane, Newark, New Jersey, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage), (d. 1900)
1880Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)
1935Gary Player, Johannesburg, South African PGA golfer (Brit Open-1959, 68, 74)
1878Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Buenos Aires, jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936), (d. 1959)
1954Actor John Wayne (47) weds actress Pilar Pallete in Kona, Hawaii
1986MLB player Kirby Puckett (24) weds Tonya Hudson (20)
2010Film actor Charlie Sheen (45) divorces socialite Brooke Mueller (33) due to irreconcilable differences after two-and-a-half years of marriage
1947Film director D. W. Griffith (72) divorces actress Evelyn Baldwin (37) after 11 years of marriage
1954Actor John Wayne (47) divorces actress Esperanza Baur due to drunken violence after 7 years of marriage
1982Director Martin Scorsese (39) divorces Isabella Rossellini (30) after 3 years of marriage
1972Ezra Loomis Pound, US poet (Throne), dies at 87
1999Walter Payton, American Football Hall of Fame Running Back, dies at 45
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