Historical Events 1862 - Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched 1898 - Richard Straus' "Don Quixote" premieres in Keulen 1916 - US invades Cuba for 3rd time‚ this to end corrupt Menocal regime 1927 - Pan American Airlines incorporates 1995 - Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections 2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears‚ prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1743 - [Benedikt] Bendix Friedrich Zinck‚ Danish violinist‚ keyboardist‚ and composer‚ baptized in Husum‚ Duchy of Schleswig (now Germany) (d. 1801) 1879 - Mechtilde Lichnowsky‚ German writer‚ born in Pocking‚ Bavaria (d. 1958) 1918 - Poon Lim‚ Chinese sailor who survived 133 days adrift at sea‚ born in Hainan‚ China (d. 1991) 1927 - Jaromir PodeÅ¡va‚ Czech composer (Fragments of the Quinguennium)‚ music theorist‚ and pedagogue‚ born in Brno‚ Czechoslovakia (d. 2000) 1971 - Marc Tobert‚ CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos) 1977 - James Van Der Beek‚ American actor (Dawson's Creek)‚ born in Cheshire‚ Connecticut More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1853 - Edward John Dent‚ British clockmaker to Queen Victoria and commissioned to make Big Ben‚ London (completed after his death by his son Frederick Dent)‚ dies at 62 1955 - Clémentine‚ Princess of Belgium‚ wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte V‚ dies at 82 1971 - Harold Lloyd‚ American silent and sound film actor‚ comedian‚ and director (Why Worry?; The Freshman; Safety Last!; The Sin of Harold Diddlebock)‚ dies of cancer at 77 1985 - Thomas Creighton‚ US heart patient (3 implants in 46 hrs)‚ dies at 33 1994 - Joop C Swart‚ publisher/founder (World Press Photo)‚ dies at 69 2014 - William Guarnere‚ American WWII veteran and author‚ portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers‚ dies at 90 More Famous Deaths »

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