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1807 ~ Death of P.D.Q. Bach, fictitious Composer.
1818 ~ Birthday of Karl Marx, Political Philosopher.
1891 ~ NYC’s Carnegie Hall had its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1925 ~ Biology teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution in Dayton, Tennessee.
1944 ~ Birthday of John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor (Gimli).
1961 ~ Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space.
1973 ~ Birthday of Brooke Ashley, a former Porn actress.
1980 ~ Great Britain’s SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in London after a six day siege.
1992 ~ Wolfenstein 3D was released, the first-ever first-person shooter computer game.
1995 ~ Death of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion.
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