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1806Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England
1925Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
200633rd American Music Award: Kelly Clarkson, Sean Paul & Rascal Flatts win
1917M Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer
1989Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush
1942Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don)
1981Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
1959Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1920Mussolini's squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna, Italy
1973Pete Rose wins NL MVP
1920Stan Musial, Donora Pennsylvania, MLB outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ)
1860Tom Horn, Scotland County Missouri, American gunman and outlaw
1694Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (d. 1778)
1785William Beaumont, Lebanon, Connecticut, surgeon (Father of gastric physiology), (d. 1853)
1987Actress Demi Moore weds actor Bruce Willis at The Little White Chapel in Las Vegas
1983Actor Ed Harris (33) weds actress Amy Madigan (33)
1942J. B. M. Hertzog [Barry Hertzog], South African Premier (1914-39), dies at 76
2011Anne McCaffrey, sci-fi author, dies at 85
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