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1913Mahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal, South Africa.
2013Ray Lewis announces he will retire at the end of the playoffs
1933Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test
1570Tsar Ivan the Terrible's march to Novgorod begins
1939Bradman scores 107 SA v Victoria, his 4th consecutive century
1965Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters
1988Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement
1934Bradman scores 253 NSW v Queensland, 204 mins, 29 fours 4 sixes
1936Bradman scores 357 for SA v Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours
197455 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon
1920Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
1727James Wolfe, Westerham, Kent, England, British Army officer, defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec
1936Roger Miller, Fort Worth Tx, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me)
1969Tommy Morrison, American boxer, (d. 2013)
1993Supermodel Kim Alexis (32) weds ice hockey player Ron Duguay (35)
1937Theoretical Physicist Paul Dirac (34) weds Margit Wigner
2010Actor Vince Vaughn (39) weds realtor Kyla Weber in Lake Forest, Illinois
1890Physicist J. J. Thomson (33) weds Rose Elisabeth Paget
1977Erroll Garner, jazz pianist (Misty), dies at 53
1904James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82
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