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1968Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers
1896Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin
1981Duke Ellington's musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in NYC
1992Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 mil)
1865General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
1669French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
1923Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Benito Mussolini
1893Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1932Bradman makes 299* vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th
2004Super Bowl XXXVIII: New England Patriots beat Carolina Panthers, 32-29 at the Reliant Stadium MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB
1948Rick James (James Ambrose Johnson Jr), Buffalo New York, American funk musician
1902Langston Hughes, Joplin, Missouri, American poet (Weary Blues) and playwright (Mulatto)
1882Louis St. Laurent, Compton Quebec, (L) 12th Canadian PM (1948-57)
1968Lisa Marie Presley Keough Jackson, Memphis Tenn, daughter of Elvis
1901Clark Gable, Cadiz Ohio, American actor (Gone With the Wind)
1931Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR
1918Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1895John Ford, Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
1840Novelist Alexandre Dumas (37) weds actress Ida Ferrier
1997Retired MLB player Johnny Bench (49) weds stockbroker Elizabeth Benton
1944Piet Mondrian, abstract painter (Composition in Blue), dies at 71
1851Mary Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies of a brain tumour at 53
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