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1993Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
1996Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
1954President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily
1305William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
1987Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1970Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
406Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians
1541French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1939Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: Eastern Europe divided between Hitler & Stalin
1933Mahatma Gandhi released from Indian jail following yet another hunger strike
1769Georges Cuvier [Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier], Montbéliard, France, French naturalist and zoologist
1942Nancy Richey Gunther, San Angelo Texas, tennis player (US Doubles 1965, 66)
1978Kobe Bryant, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1946Keith Moon, English rock drummer (Who-I'm A Boy)
1970River Phoenix, Madras Oregon, actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me)
1930Vera Miles, [Ralston], Boise City ID, actress (Psycho)
1876Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley weds traveling show marksman Frank E. Butler
1975Actress Maggie Smith (40) weds playwright Beverley Cross (44) at the Guildford Register Office in Surrey, England
1962Musician and member of the Beatles, John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell
1978Actress Kate Jackson (29) weds actor Andrew Stevens (23) in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
2014Actress Angelina Jolie (39) weds actor and film producer Brad Pitt (50) in Correns, France
2003"The Hours" actress Julianne Moore (42) weds "The Myth of Fingerprints" director Bart Freundlich (33) in New York
1305William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled & beheaded at Smithfield London
1926Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in NY at 31
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