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1911Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
1933Langston Hughes' "Mulatto" premieres in NYC
1882Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis
1979Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc
1940Hitler meets Marshal Pétain
1988NY Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires
1982Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
1926Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1931Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion
1981Pablo Picasso's 1937 painting Guernica goes on display in Madrid Spain to celebrate the centenary of the artist's birth
1904Moss Hart, Bronx NY, playwright (You Can't Take it With You, Act 1)
1947Kevin Kline, St Louis, actor (Sophie's Choice, Big Chill)
1932Robert Mundell, Kingston, Ontario, economist and Nobel laureate (1999)
1903Melvin Purvis, Timmonsville South Carolina, American FBI agent
1969"Love Story" actress Ali MacGraw (30) weds film producer Robert Evans (39)
1976Pediatrician Benjamin Spock (73) weds Mary Morgan
1972Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player (Bkln Dodgers), dies at 53
1852Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70
2005Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist, dies of natural causes at 92
1601Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, dies in Prague at 54
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