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            7th April, on this day 451 Attila's Hun's 
            plunder Metz529 First draft of Corpus 
            Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued 
            by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
 1118 Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
 1348 Prague U, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles 
            IV
 1456 Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
 1498 Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence Italy
 1509 France declares war on Venice
 1521 Inquisitor-General Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
 1521 Magelhaes' 
            fleet reaches Cebu
 1541 Francis 
            Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
 1584 Leper surrenders to Duke 
            Van Parma
 1625 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
 1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
 1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa
 1655 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
 1712 Slave revolt (New York, NY)
 1724 Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig
 1739 English highwayman Dick Turpin hanged in York for murdering an 
            inn-keeper
 1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
 1795 France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.
 1798 The Mississippi Territory is formed from territory ceded by Georgia 
            and South Carolina and is later twice expanded to include disputed 
            territory claimed by both the U.S. and Spain.
 1805 Lewis 
            and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among 
            the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
 1805 Premiere of Beethoven's 
            "Eroica" (conducted by himself)
 1818 General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks FL from Seminole Indians
 1827 English chemist John 
            Walker invents wooden matches
 1829 Joseph 
            Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day 
            Saints, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery 
            as his scribe.
 1831 Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil
 1860 Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
 1862 
            Battle of Shiloh ends - Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant 
            defeat the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
 1863 
            Battle of Charleston SC, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
 1865 Battle of Farmville, 
            VA
 1868 Thomas 
            D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers Of Confederation is 
            assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, 
            the only one at the federal level.
 1890 Completion of the first Lake 
            Biwa Canal.
 1900 US President William McKinley appoints a commission headed by 
            Judge W.H.Taft to extend American civil power in the Philippines
 1901 SDAP demands General voting right/abolishing First Chamber
 1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
 1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
 1906 The Algeciras 
            Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
 1908 H. 
            H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister 
            of the United Kingdom, from Sir 
            Henry Campbell-Bannerman
 1922 Teapot 
            Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot 
            Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
 1923 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth 
            Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
 1923 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
 1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
 1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington DC to New York NY
 1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st 
            Amendment
 1933 University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
 1933 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bar Jews from legal & public 
            service
 1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience
 1939 Italy annexes Albania
 1940 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker 
            T Washington)
 1941 British Generals O'Connor and Neame captured in North Africa
 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
 1943 In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to 
            their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby 
            village of Plebanivka. They were then shot dead and buried in ditches.
 1943 LSD - lysergic acid diethylamide - is first synthesised by Albert 
            Hoffman in his Swiss laboratory
 1943 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference 
            in Salzburg
 1943 British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
 1943 Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded in 
            allied air raid
 1944 General Montgomery speaks to Generals about invasion plan
 1945 1st and last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
 1945 US B-17's bombs range at Lüneburg
 1945 US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide 
            mission; superbattleship 
            Yamato and four destroyers are sunk
 1945 Visoko 
            was liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth 
            division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
 1946 Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
 1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
 1948 World 
            Health Organization established by UN
 1948 Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks 
            dead.
 1949 Rogers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific" opens at 
            Majestic Theater (for 1928 performances)
 1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
 1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
 1953 Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden elected 2nd UN General-Secretary
 1954 German government refuses to recognize DDR
 1954 President Dwight Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" 
            in Indo-China
 1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
 1957 21st Golf Masters Championship Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283
 1957 Last of New York's electric trolleys completes its final run
 1959 Radar 1st bounced off sun, Stanford CA
 1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
 1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
 1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
 1964 British world motor-racing champion Jim Clark dies in a crash 
            at the Hockenheim circuit in Germany
 1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
 1967 Israeli/Syrian border fights
 1968 Pierre 
            Trudeau is elected Prime Minister of Canada
 1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 
            1.
 1971 President Richard Nixon orders Lieutenant Calley (My Lai) free
 1971 U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon announces his decision to 
            increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
 1976 Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
 1976 Former British Cabinet Minister John 
            Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party
 1977 German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried 
            Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members 
            while waiting at a red light.
 1977 Consumer Product Safety Commission bans the flame-retardant chemical 
            "TRIS"
 1978 President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb
 1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
 1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water
 1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
 1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit number 
            in 29 seconds
 1981 Belgium Eyskens government forms
 1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
 1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
 1983 Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
 1985 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the 
            deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
 1987 National Museum of Female Physicians opens in Washington DC
 1988 Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested
 1988 Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghánistán
 1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1989 New York Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from San Diego 
            Yacht Club for using a catamaran against New Zealand; Appeals court 
            eventually overrules
 1989 A 
            Soviet nuclear-powered submarine, carrying nuclear warheads, catches 
            fire and sinks of the coast of Norway killing more than 40 members 
            of the crew
 1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 
            die in a ferry flip over in Burma
 1990 John 
            Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra 
            scandal
 1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
 1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
 1992 Republika 
            Srpska announces its independence.
 1994 Massacres of 
            Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
 1994 Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
 1994 Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
 1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for 1st 
            time
 1999 The World 
            Trade Organisation (WTO) rules in favor of the United States in 
            its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
 2001 Mars Odyssey 
            is launched.
 2003 U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam 
            Hussein's regime falls two days later.
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        | Birthdates which 
            occurred on 7th April : 1506 St Francis 
            Xavier Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan 1534 José de Anchieta Spanish jesuit/missionary (Brazilian 
            Tupi-Indians)
 1613 Gerard Dou Dutch painter (Night School)
 1622 Louise Hollandine daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth 
            Stuart
 1629 Juan José of Austria, Spanish General/Governor of Netherlands
 1648 Ferdinand van Kessel Flemish painter
 1694 Coelestin Praelisauer composer
 1699 Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer composer
 1727 Henri Hardouin composer
 1727 Michel Adanson French biologist (Natural History of Sénégal)
 1745 Georg Druschetzky composer
 1748 Georg Wenzel Ritter composer
 1756 Charles Felix King of Sardina (1821-31)
 1763 Domenico Dragonetti composer
 1768 Karl Theodor Toeschi composer
 1770 William Wordsworth England, poet laureate (The Prelude)
 1772 F M Charles Fourier French socialist
 1775 Francis C Lowell founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
 1780 William Ellery Channing US, Unitarian clergyman
 1786 William Rufus DeVane King (D) 13th US Vice President (1853)
 1801 Henry Eagle Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
 1803 Flora Tristan writer
 1805 Francis Wilkinson Pickens (Governor-SC, Confederacy), died in 
            1869
 1819 Hubert Leonard composer
 1820 György Klapka Hungarian General/MP (Komárom-castle)
 1822 Gershom Mott Major General (Union volunteers)
 1826 Johann Hermann Berens composer
 1841 Alfred Cogniaux Belgian botanicus
 1841 Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys painter
 1847 J P Jacobsen writer
 1851 Otto Adolf Klauwell composer
 1858 Adrien H Gerhard Dutch socialist politician (SDAP)
 1859 Walter Camp Connecticut, father of American football (Yale)
 1860 W K Kellogg a real corn flake
 1869 David Grandison Fairchild US, botanist/explorer, brought plants 
            to US
 1870 Gustav Landauer German socialist
 1870 Joseph Ryeland Belgian composer/Baron
 1872 William Monroe Trotter famous African
 1878 C M M Hathorn cricketer (South African Test centurion in 1905-06)
 1878 Jozef C Bittremieux Flemish theologist (Virgin & Mother of 
            God)
 1882 Bert "Dainty" Ironmonger cricketer (belated Australian 
            representative 1928-33)
 1882 Kurt von Schleiger German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33)
 1884 Charles Dodd English new testament authority
 1884 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal Dutch politician/resistance fighter
 1889 Gabriela Mistral Chilean poet (Desolación, Tenderness)/Nobel 
            1945
 1890 Marjory Stoneman Douglas environmentalist (1st Lady of Everglades)
 1893 Allan W Dulles US diplomat/CIA head 1953-61 (Germany's Underground)
 1893 Irene Castle dancer (leader in anti-vivisection movement)
 1894 Gerald Brenan English writer
 1895 Eduardo Toldra composer
 1895 Lewis B Combs naval commander/civil engineer
 1896 Benny Leonard lightweight boxing champion (1917-25)
 1897 Walter Winchell Harlem New York NY, newscaster/columnist (Untouchables)
 1897 Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud composer
 1899 Robert Marcel Casadesus French pianist/composer (Prix Diémer)
 19-- Elaine Miles actress (Marilyn-Northern Exposure)
 19-- Morris Johnson Jr drag race car driver
 19-- Shane rocker (Electric Angels-I Believe, Whiplash)
 1900 Tebbs Lloyd Johnson England, 50K walker (Olympics-bronze-1952)
 1903 Willi Forst Austrian actor/director (Im weissen Rössl)
 1908 Percy Faith conductor (Summer Place)
 1908 Le Duan Vietnamese politician
 1912 John Adrian Hope politician/businessman
 1912 Valère Depauw Flemish writer
 1914 Sydney Thompson rock climber
 1915 Billie Holiday [Eleanora Fagan] Philadelphia PA, singer (Ain't 
            Nobody's Business)
 1915 Henry Kuttner US, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were, Startling 
            Worlds of Henry Kuttner)
 1917 R G Armstrong Birmingham AL, actor (T.H.E. Cat)
 1918 Peanuts Hucko Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 
            Show)
 1918 Ronald Howard Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas 
            Style)
 1918 C B Bertie Clarke cricketer (Barbados & West Indian leg-spinner)
 1918 Peter Aryans [PCJ Vander] Dutch radio actor (Shoot Out)
 1919 Edoardo Mangiarotti Italy, épée (Olympics-gold-1952)
 1919 Ralph Flanagan Loraine OH, orchestra leader (Let's Dance)
 1920 Ravi Shankar Benares India, sitar player (Sounds of India)
 1920 Terence Edward Armstrong polar geographer
 1922 Kenneth Howard Peacock composer
 1924 Nick Perito Denver CO, orchestra leader (Don Knotts Show, Big 
            Show)
 1924 Harry Cordon comic/host (Fred Haché Show)
 1924 Ikuma Dan composer
 1926 Johannes Rood Dutch immunologist (Eurotransplant)
 1928 Alan J Pakula director (All the President's Men, Klute)
 1928 James [Scott Bumgarner] Garner Norman OK, actor (Rockford Files, 
            Bret Maverick)
 1928 James White UK, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer)
 1930 Andrew Sachs actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers)
 1931 Donald Barthelme Philadelphia PA, writer (Snow White, Sadness)
 1931 Daniel Ellsberg whistleblower (Pentagon Papers)/patriot
 1932 Louis "Mr Bo" Collins Indianola MS, blues singer (If 
            Trouble Was Money)
 1933 Wayne Rogers Birmingham AL, actor (MASH, House Calls, Chiefs)
 1934 Ian Richards Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Montgomery-Ike)
 1935 Hodding Carter III press secretary (Jimmy Carter)
 1935 Bobby Bare Irontown OH, country singer (Detroit City)
 1935 Yvonne Fedderson co-founder (Childhelp USA)
 1937 [Big] Charlie Thomas New York NY, jazz/rock singer (Drifters)
 1938 Freddie Hubbard Indianapolis IN, jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey)
 1938 Yvonne Lime Glendale CA, actress (Father Knows Best, Dobie Gillis)
 1938 [Edmund G] Jerry Brown Jr San Francisco CA, (Governor-Democrat-CA, 
            1975-83)
 1939 David Frost Tenderdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That 
            Was)
 1939 Donald L Holmquest Dallas TX, astronaut
 1939 Francis Ford Coppola Detroit MI, film maker (Godfather, Apocalypse 
            Now, American Graffiti)
 1940 Jan Wilhelm Morthenson composer
 1940 Patricia Paay Dutch singer (You are not hip)
 1942 Edda Barends actress (Arthur & Eva)
 1943 Roberta Shore [Schourup] Monterey Park CA, actress/singer (Virginian)
 1943 Dennis Amiss cricketer (prolific English batsman)
 1943 Mick Abrahams Luton Bedfordshire England, rock guitarist (Jethro 
            Tull-This Was)
 1943 Spencer Dryden New York NY, rock drummer (Jefferson Airplane-Go 
            Ask Alice)
 1946 Bill Kreutzmann Palo Alto CA, drummer (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots)
 1946 Barbara Benary composer
 1947 Patricia Bennett US singer (He's So Fine)
 1949 John Oates guitarist/vocalist (Hall & Oates-Rich Girl)
 1951 Janis Ian [Janis Eddy Fink] New York NY, folk singer (Society's 
            Child, At 17)
 1951 John Dittrich Union NJ, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
 1952 Bruce Gary Burbank CA, rock drummer (Knack-My Sharona)
 1952 Jane Frederick US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1976)
 1953 Everard Endt US, yachting (Olympics-gold-1952)
 1954 Donna White LPGA golfer
 1954 Jackie Chan martial art actor (Rumble in the Bronx)
 1954 Tony Dorsett NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys, Heisman Trophy)
 1955 Andrea Fisher artist
 1956 Gail Lee Hirata LPGA golfer
 1958 Alexandra Neil Boston MA, actress (Rose-Guiding Light)
 1958 Tony Ayre rocker (Adventures-Sea of Love)
 1960 Simon Climie rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)
 1962 Andy Hampsten Columbus OH, cyclist (Olympics-96)
 1962 Bonny Warner Mount Baldy CA, lugist
 1962 Hugh Edward Ralph O'Connor actor (In the Heat of the Night)
 1964 Helen Wadsworth S Wales, golfer (Curtis Cup 1990)
 1964 Joe Durant Pensacola FL, Nike golfer (1992 Boise Open-7th)
 1965 Alexander Mronz Cologne Germany, tennis star
 1965 Kaushik Amalean cricketer (two Tests for Sri Lanka 1986-88)
 1966 Teri Ann Linn Honolulu HI, actress (Kristen-Bold & Beautiful)
 1967 Steve Wisniewski NFL guard (Oakland Raiders)
 1968 Bill Bellamy actor (Fled, How to be a Player, Joey Breaker)
 1968 Don[ald] Smith North Tonawanda NY, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
 1969 Clark Sheehan Denver CO, cyclist (Olympics-96)
 1969 Jeremy Lincoln NFL cornerback (Chicago Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
 1969 Peggy Clasen St Paul MN, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
 1969 Ricky Bones Salinas Puerto Rico, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers, 
            New York Yankees)
 1969 Ricky Watters NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
 1970 Alexander Karpovtsev Moscow Russia, NHL defenseman (New York 
            Rangers)
 1970 Kevin Smith NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
 1971 Cara Kendra Bernosky Miss Pennsylvania-USA (1997)
 1971 Mark Thompson Russellville KY, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
 1971 Stephen Brimacombe Australian 100 meter/200 meter (Olympics-96)
 1971 Victor Kraatz Berlin Germany, Canadian ice dancer (1995 World 
            Champions-4th)
 1972 Greg Clark tight end (San Francisco 49ers)
 1972 Joanne Brown Australian softball catcher/1st baseman (Olympics-bronze-96)
 1972 Lovett Purnell wide receiver (New England Patriots)
 1972 Malcolm Huckaby NBA guard (Miami Heat)
 1972 Shana Williams Bridgeton NJ, long jumper/heptathlete
 1974 Anita Maxwell WNBA forward (Cleveland Rockers)
 1975 Beverly Peele super model (Elle)
 1975 Ronde Barber cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
 1975 Tiki Barber running back (New York Giants)
 1975 Victoria Adams "Posh Spice", Hertfordshire, vocalist 
            (Spice Girls)
 1976 Erich Goldmann Dingolfing Germany, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 
            1998)
 1978 Siobhan Drake-Brockman Bunbury Australia, tennis star (1994 Port 
            Pirie)
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            on April 7th:
 0030 Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem (scholars' estimate, 
            according to astronomer Schaefer)
 0924 Berengarius I Emperor of Italy, murdered
 1444 John Capreolus French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50
 1498 Charles VIII King of France (1483-98), dies at 27
 1524 Philip of Burgundy bishop of Utrecht, dies
 1614 El Greco Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown)
 1719 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle French priest/theory/saint, dies at 
            67
 1766 Tiberius Hemsterhuis Dutch classicist, dies at 81
 1767 Franz Sparry composer, dies at 51
 1768 Michel Mathieu composer, dies at 78
 1778 Johann Balthasar Kehl composer, dies at 52
 1783 Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer composer, dies at 71
 1789 Abdül-Hamid I 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89), dies at 64
 1789 Peter Camper anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66
 1803 [François Dominique] Toussaint L'Ouverture Haitian revolutionary, 
            dies
 1810 Pieter L van de Kasteele Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 61
 1833 Antoni Henryk Radziwill Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57
 1842 Henrik A Bjerregaard Norwegian writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), 
            dies at 50
 1850 William Lisle Bowles English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87
 1858 Anton Diabelli Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76
 1862 Sydney Nelson composer, dies at 62
 1871 Alexander grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 1 day old
 1871 Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff Austrian Admiral (Helgoland/Lissa), 
            dies at 43
 1875 Georg Herwegh writer, dies at 57
 1877 Errico Petrella composer, dies at 63
 1880 Diederich Krug composer, dies at 58
 1881 Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte Corsican MP, dies at 65
 1884 Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 
            80
 1891 P[hineas] T Barnum US circus promoter (Barnum & Bailey), 
            dies at 80
 1917 Spyridon Filiskos Samaras composer, dies at 53
 1932 Erv A Kelley US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd
 1933 Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered
 1934 William Monroe Trotter civil rights activist/journalist, dies 
            on 62nd birthday in Boston
 1943 Jovan Ducic Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72
 1950 Walter Huston dies at 66
 1955 Theda Bara actress (Camille, Cleopatra, 2 Orphans), dies at 62
 1958 Judge Jackson composer, dies at 75
 1958 Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov composer, dies at 58
 1961 Marian Jordan radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies 
            at 62
 1961 Jesus Guridi composer, dies at 74
 1961 Yusef Greiss composer, dies at 61
 1967 Anne Morrison Chapin dies in West Hollywood
 1968 Jim Clark of Scotland, former world driving champion, dies in 
            race car at 32
 1970 Josina Machel wife of Mozambique's 1st President Samora Machel, 
            dies
 1971 Charles F Pahud de Mortanges (Olympics-gold-1928, 32), dies at 
            74
 1972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday 
            party
 1972 Abeid Karume Tanzanian sheik/President, murdered
 1972 Victor Wong actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65
 1973 Nick Stuart bandleader, dies of cancer at 69
 1976 Mary Margaret McBride TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies 
            at 76
 1977 Siegfried Buback German Federal Republic procureur-General, murdered 
            Attorney-General
 1978 Ernest Kanitz composer, dies at 83
 1979 Bruno Apitz writer, dies at 78
 1982 Brenda Benet actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun 
            at 36
 1983 Gavin Gordon television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 
            82
 1984 Samuel G Engel screenwriter/poet, dies of heart failure at 79
 1984 Frank Church (Senator-Democrat-OH, 1957-81), dies at 59
 1987 Maxine Sullivan [Williams] American actress (Going Places), dies 
            at 75
 1988 Cesar Bresgen Austrian composer/organist, dies at 74
 1989 Tikhon Toropets patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint, dies at 
            123(?)
 1992 Alix Talton former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72
 1992 Clovis Ruffin fashion designer (T shirt dress), dies of AIDS 
            at 46
 1992 Rick Emery dies after long illness at 39
 1993 Max Croiset Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 
            80
 1993 Richard Schmiechen dies of AIDS at 45
 1993 S C (Billy) Griffith cricketer (England 1948-49, MCC secretary), 
            dies
 1994 Agathe Uwilingiyimana PM of Rwanda, assassinated
 1994 Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann German/US historian, 
            dies at 85
 1994 Arthur Gordon Clough journalist, dies at 59
 1994 Evert Hartman Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56
 1994 François de Grossouvre President Mitterrand advisor, suicide 
            at 76
 1994 Kurt Cobain grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 
            27
 1994 Lee Brilleaux British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies 
            at 41
 1995 Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb architect, dies at 68
 1996 Ian Spurling ballet designer, dies at 59
 
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