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1833Charles Darwin rides through Las Pietras, returning to Montevideo
1931Bradman scores 226, the 1st Test Cricket century at Gabba, v South Africa
1988Picasso's "Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million
1906Tommy Burns & Jack O'Brien fight to a draw in 20 for hw boxing title
1974John Lennon's last concert appearance (Elton John concert in Madison Square Garden NYC)
1957"Look Homeward, Angel" with Anthony Perkins premieres in NYC
1520Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
1932Groucho Marx performed on radio for 1st time
1933A Dallas grand jury delivers a murder indictment against Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow for the January 1933 killing of Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis
1965Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1958Dave Righetti, San Jose California, baseball pitcher (Yankees, Giants)
1866Henry Bacon, Watseka Illinois, American architect (Lincoln Memorial)
1929Berry Gordy, Detroit, record company owner (Motown)
1950Ed Harris, Tenafly NJ, actor (Right Stuff, Swing Shift, Walker, Coma)
1998Actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris (58) weds former model Gena O'Kelley (30) at The North Church in Carrolton, Texas
1936Paleoanthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart (43) weds librarian Marjorie Gordon Frew
1582Playwright & poet William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway
1938Chinese politician Mao Zedong (44) weds Jiang Qing (24) in a small private ceremony
1954Enrico Fermi, Italian/US nuclear physicist (Nobel 1938), dies of stomach cancer at 53
1859Washington Irving, American author (Legend of Sleepy Hollow), dies of a heart attack at 76
1994Jeffrey Dahmer, [Butcher of Milwaukee], American serial killer, killed in prison at 34
1680Giovanni Bernini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 81
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