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2003 "Elizabeth ""Ma Pampo"" Israel", old woman, ", may have been world's oldest but ""undocumented"" person, ", dies at 128, disputed

2000 Frank Wills, often unemployed security guard, he the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate Building had been burgled in June 1972, dies at 52

1994 Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)

1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment

1984 Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally

1980 World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated

1977 Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 3.4-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered

1973 President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War

1972 Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended

1970 Would have been start of Aust/Eng Test Cricket at MCG, washed out

1959 Per Helmstad Gessle, Sweden, singer, Roxette-Must Have Been Love

1958 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)

1958 Marie Fredriksson, Ostra-Lj Swed, singer, Roxette-Must Have Been Love

1957 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed

1950 White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930

1950 Charlene [D'Angelo], singer, I've Never Been To Me

1949 Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place

1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff

1945 Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually

1944 Frederick Knight, U.S. singer, I've been lonely so long

1943 Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres

1941 Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yanks score 4 and win 7-4

1934 U.S. troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915

1930 Johannes H Been, Brielle archivist, dies at 71

1929 Don Larsen, pitcher, New York Yankees, on what must have been a perfect day

1927 Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox

1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped

1918 United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed

1859 John H Been, town's archivist of Brielle, Baasje and Witkop

1849 Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence

1772 Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government and restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720

1456 Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted

60 St. Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta



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