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Historical Events

1616 - Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana
1932 - Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR
1954 - 16th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: La Salle beats Bradley, 92-76; Explorers' small forward Tom Gola is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
1982 - France beats Ireland, 22-9 at the Parc des Princes, Paris but the Irish take the Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-1 record and also their 5th Triple Crown
1987 - FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)
2000 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead

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Famous Birthdays

1469 - Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)
1873 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian-American piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer (Aleko; Piano Concerto No. 3), born in Oneg or Semyonovo, Russian Empire (d. 1943) [NS=Apr 1]
1883 - Karl Hasse, German composer, born in Dohna (d. 1960)
1922 - Larry Elgart, American big band jazz alto saxophonist, and bandleader ("Bandstand Boogie"; "Hooked On Swing"), born in New London, Connecticut (d. 2017)
1948 - John de Lancie, American actor (Star Trek Next Generation - "Q"; Days of Our Lives), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1986 - Dean Geyer, South African-Australian singer-songwriter (Australian Idol), and actor (Neighbours; Glee), born in Johannesburg, South Africa

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Famous Deaths

1937 - Harry Vardon, Jersey golfer (6 time British Open champion, US Open 1900), dies of lung cancer at 66
1969 - Henri Longchambon, French politician, dies at 72
1982 - Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral, dies at 52
1983 - Ivan Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (analytic number theory), dies at 91
1994 - Lewis Grizzard, American humorist (b. 1946)
2010 - Stewart Udall, American politician, environmentalist (b. 1920)

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Today's Featured Historical Event

Tokyo subways are attacked with sarin gas

Several packages of deadly sarin gas are set off in the Tokyo subway system killing twelve people and injuring over 5,000 on March 20, 1995. Sarin gas was invented by the Nazis and is one of the most lethal nerve gases known to man. Tokyo police quickly learned who had planted the chemical weapons ...
Cite: History.com, Thu, 27 Jun 2019
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