Thursday, 2 June 2016

Today In History From JJD

Historical Events

1882 - Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris
1958 - Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1972 - Two British soldiers die in an IRA land mine attack near Rosslea, County Fermanagh
1977 - New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
1979 - Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley signs first homosexual rights bill

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Famous Birthdays

1838 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900)
1935 - Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2
1937 - Jimmy Jones, American singer-songwriter (Handy Man), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2012)
1948 - Albert Innaurato, Phila, playwright/director (Age in Soho)
1962 - Darnell Coles, baseball player
1970 - B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill)

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Famous Deaths

1575 - Pieter Aertsen, [Long Worm], painter, dies at about 65
1597 - Diederik Sonoy, German/Neth governor of Northern quarter, dies at 67
1908 - Redvers H Buller, English general, dies at 68
1949 - Ernest Ford, composer, dies at 91
2000 - Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
2007 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (b. 1949)

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