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1991Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career NFL victory
1869Richard Wagner's opera "Rhine Gold" premieres in Munich
1993Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game
1973Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State
1969SF Giant Willie Mays, becomes second player to hit 600 home runs
1963Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open
1976"Charlie's Angels" starring Farrah Fawcett debuts
1598Playwright and poet Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter as the result of a duel.
1978Israeli PM Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit
199933rd Country Music Association Award: Shania Twain, Martina McBride & Tim McGraw wins
1958Andrea Bocelli, Pisa, Italian tenor (The Prayer)
1927Tom Lasorda [Thomas], Norristown, Pennsylvania, baseball manager (LA Dodgers)
1515Anne of Cleves, Düsseldorf, Queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII
1957Nick Cave, Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australian singer/songwriter (Bad Seeds-Murder Ballads)
2004Race car driver Al Unser Jr (42) weds Gina Soto
1794Physicist Alessandro Volta (49) weds Teresa Peregrini
1973Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (50) weds Jean Forsyth Clyde
1940"Adventures of Superman" actor George Reeves (26) weds Ellanora Needles at the Church of Our Savior in San Gabriel, California
1956Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 79
1989Irving Berlin, composer (God Bless America), dies at 101
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