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1972Roberto Clemente is 11th to get 3,000 hits
1992KC Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits
199226th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks wins
1985Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM (NY)
1993US General Colin Powell retires at 56
1908Maurice Maeterlinck's "L'oiseau Blue" premieres in Moscow
1946Joachim von Ribbentrop & Hermann Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial
1980Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
1962Mickey Wright wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open
1805Napoleon Bonaparte's army draws into the Rhine
1924Truman Capote, New Orleans Louisiana, American author (In Cold Blood)
1917Buddy Rich, New York, American jazz drummer and band leader (Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go), (d. 1987)
1928Elie Wiesel, Romania, author (Souls on Fire)/Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986)
1627Robinson Crusoe, fictional character, according to Daniel Defoe
1989NBA legend Larry Bird (32) weds long-time girlfriend Dinah Mattingly in Terre Haute, Indiana
2000Tennis star player Pete Sampras (29) weds actress and former Miss Teen USA Bridgette Wilson (27) in Los Angeles, California
1978Actress Meryl Streep (29) weds sculptor Don Gummer (31) in Mason's Island, Connecticut
1968Jazz musician Miles Davis (42) weds singer Betty Mabry (23)
1955James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause), dies in a car crash at age 24
1948Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, dies at 87
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