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Historical Events

1864 - General James Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem, Tennessee
1882 - 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens her office
1954 - 4th NFL Pro Bowl, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: Eastern Conference beats Western Conference, 20-9; MVP: Chuck Bednarik, Philadelphia Eagles, LB
1982 - Czech tennis star Ivan Lendl scores a 6–7, 2–6, 7–6, 6–2, 6–4 win over American Vitas Gerulaitis to claim his first of 5 ATP Masters Grand Prix titles at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1986 - 2nd Sundance Film Festival: "Smooth Talk" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
1991 - Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel

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Famous Birthdays

1789 - August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850)
1806 - James Madison Randolph, Jefferson's grandson and the 1st to be born in the White House, born in Washington, D.C.
1891 - Marjorie Gateson, American actress (One Man's Family), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1977)
1927 - Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer
1969 - Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film writer and director, born in Lund, Sweden
1985 - Simone Simons, Dutch singer (Epica), born in Hoensbroek, Netherlands

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Famous Deaths

1617 - Pieter C Bockenberg, Dutch historian, dies at 68
1911 - Francis Galton, British anthropologist and geneticist (eugenics), dies at 88
1917 - Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70
1996 - Charles Henry Madge, English poet and founder of Mass-Observation, dies at 83
2003 - Balint Vazsonyi, Hingarian pianist (b. 1936)
2020 - Morimichi Takagi, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman (NPB All-Star 1966–67, 73, 79; Chunichi Dragons), dies at 78

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Today's Featured Historical Event

Ireland grants a divorce for the first time in the country's history

The Republic of Ireland legally grants a divorce for the first time following a 1995 referendum. The first divorce in Ireland, granted to a terminally ill man who wished to marry his new partner, was a harbinger of the decline of the Catholic Church’s power over the Republic. The Irish Constitution ...
Cite: History.com, Thu, 29 Aug 2019
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