Historical Events
1967 - NL owners OK AL expansion to Seattle and Kansas City
1968 - William Craig, Home Affairs Minister, bans all marches, with the exception of 'customary' parades, in Derry, Northern Ireland; the exception of 'customary' parades meant that Loyalist institutions could parade but civil rights marches could not
1985 - Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, killing 25,000
2008 - Equity research by Deutsche Bank states that Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines should not experience a recession, despite potential harm to economic growth from falling commodity prices and possible weaker exports
2008 - Germany's economy, Europe's largest , contracted by 0.5% in the third quarter after GDP fell 0.4% in the second quarter, putting it in recession for the first time in five years
2009 - The Netherlands officially exits the recession after experiencing 0.4% growth in the third quarter, but recovery for the Netherlands still remains fragile as the country is highly dependent on exports to maintain the recovery
Famous Birthdays
1801 - Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Queen consort of Prussia (1840-61), born in Munich (d. 1873)
1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (Treasure Island), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1894)
1940 - Daniel Pilon, Canadian actor
1946 - Martin Bresnick, composer
1971 - Craig Powell, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns)
1982 - Koda Kumi, Japanese singer
Famous Deaths
1867 - Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist (b. 1806)
1944 - Paul Graener, composer, dies at 72
1974 - Karen Silkwood, killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances
1982 - Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec (b. 1911)
1994 - Joseph H. Hazen, US Lawyer/producer/VP (Warner Bros), dies at 96
1994 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist, dies at 70
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