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1928USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact
1985Mark Messier loses control of his Porsche and totals three cars, and would later be charged with hit and run and careless driving (he would pay a fine)
1953Konrad Adenauer's CDU wins elections in German Federal Republic
1920Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
1901US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York
1862Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
1994Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg"
1982Jerry Lewis' 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000
1924Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails
1953Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38
1943George Roger Waters, Cambridge England, rock bassist and vocalist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall)
1860Jane Addams, Cedarville, Illinois, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931), (d. 1935)
1947Jane Curtin, Cambridge Massachusetts, actress (SNL, Allie Lowell-Kate & Allie)
1888Joseph P Kennedy, Boston Mass, diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy
1889Explorer Fridtjof Nansen (27) weds mezzosoprano singer Eva Nansen (30)
1840Publisher James Gordon Bennett (45) weds Henrietta Agnes Crean in NYC, New York
1780William Allen, Mayor of Philadelphia, dies at 76
1966Margaret Sanger, US feminist/birth control pioneer, dies at 86
1998Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
1990Tom Fogerty, rocker (Creedence Clearwater), dies of tuberculosis at 48
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