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Five random people born on this day...

  • Amancio D'Silva, musician (1936)
  • Joseph McGinnity, born in Rock Island, Illinois, baseball pitcher for the New York Giants (1871)
  • [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel 1935 (1900)
  • Errol Refos, soccer player, Feyenoord (1970)
  • Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/politician (1845)

Five random people who died on this day...

  • Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86 (1991)
  • Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italian Pope (1700-21), dies at 71 (1721)
  • Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out), dies at 77 (1987)
  • Theodor Schaefer, composer, dies at 65 (1969)
  • Willem F J Pijper, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52 (1947)

Five random things that happened on this day...

  • 1st rocket-driven sled on rails was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico (1954)
  • Carol Mann wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic (1972)
  • Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX (1227)
  • 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide (1644)
  • Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC (1865)

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