Historical Events
1805 - Lewis and Clark sight Pacific Ocean
1954 - US spy plane shot down North of Japan
1963 - NY Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP
1973 - US and Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links
2000 - Controversial US presidential election that was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
2001 - 35th Country Music Association Award: Tim McGraw, Lee Ann Womack and Toby Keith wins
Famous Birthdays
1758 - Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker/politician
1811 - Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Bouquet)
1883 - Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Newport New Va, TV preacher
1903 - Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
1929 - Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor
1943 - Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
Famous Deaths
1639 - William Cobbold, composer, dies at 79
1723 - Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies
1919 - Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56
1935 - Lidj Jasu, emperor of Ethiopia, dies at 39
1968 - Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies
1983 - Germaine Tailleferre, Fren composer (Le Marin du Bolivar), dies at 91
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