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1954General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba
1951Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP
1951Johnny Mercer's "Top Banana" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 356 performances
1950Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Harry Truman at Blair House
1990Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy PM Howe
1936Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis"
1967"Cool Hand Luke", starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released
1910First issue of "Crisis" published by editor W.E.B. Du Bois
1959Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt
1928Bradman scores a century each innings (131 & 133*), NSW v Qld
1942Larry Flynt, Lakeville, Kentucky, magazine publisher (Hustler)
1871Stephen Crane, Newark, New Jersey, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage), (d. 1900)
1880Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)
1878Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Buenos Aires, jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936), (d. 1959)
1986MLB player Kirby Puckett (24) weds Tonya Hudson (20)
1954Actor John Wayne (47) weds actress Pilar Pallete in Kona, Hawaii
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
2010Film actor Charlie Sheen (45) divorces socialite Brooke Mueller (33) due to irreconcilable differences after two-and-a-half 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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