Historical Events
1900 - France and Italy sign a secret agreement by which Italy recognizes France's right to exploit Morocco in return for France's conceding her the same right in Tripoli
1901 - 1st table tennis tournament is held (London Royal Aquarium)
1950 - Baseball owners choose Lou Perini (Braves), Phil Wrigley (Cubs), Del Webb (Yankees), and Ellis Ryan (Indians) to select new commissioner
1975 - WCPR (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
2016 - University of Toronto scientists present findings of the world's oldest water - 2 billion years old from a mine in Canada
2017 - The Vatican announces it has rediscovered the lost last paintings of Raphael in Vatican Museum, painted 1520
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Famous Birthdays
1904 - Jack Westland, American politician (US House of Representatives 1953-65) and golfer (US Amateur C'ship 1952), born in Everett, Washington (d. 1982)
1911 - Spike Jones [Lindley Armstrong Jones], American bandleader (Der Fueher's Face, Cocktails For Two), born in Long Beach, California (d. 1965)
1935 - Butch [David William] White, English cricketer (England opening attack Brown and White v Pak 1961), born in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire
1942 - David Band, British banker (BZW) (d. 1996)
1948 - Boudewijn Büch, Dutch writer and TV host, born in The Hague, Netherlands
1963 - Cindy Gibb, American actress (Search for Tomorrow, Youngblood), born in Bennington, Vermont
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Famous Deaths
1417 - John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged and burned
1542 - James V, King of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30
1651 - Pierre Dupuy, French historian and scholar, dies at 69
1923 - Giuseppi Gallignani, composer, dies at 72
1965 - Hermann Sandby, composer, dies at 84
1998 - Norman Fell, American actor (Three's Company, The End, Graduate), dies of bone marrow cancer at 74
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