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1992 Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in U.S. Open history (5hr 26min)

1979 Ali Hassan Salameh, Abu Hassan, killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes

1961 A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha

1950 Wally Lamb, born in America, author, novelist, featured in Oprah's Book Club, books include 'The Hour I First Believed' 'I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison', 'She's Come Undone', 'I Know This Much is True'

1891 Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, with William Quan Judge, Henry Steel Olcott, believed all inner religious teachings are true, dies, date of death celebrated by Theosophists, who call it, Whilte Lotus Day

1831 Helena Blavatsky, born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, founder of the Theosophical Society, with William Quan Judge, Henry Steel Olcott, believed all inner religious teachings are true

1747 Luc de Clapiers, born in Aix-en-Provence, France, writer, essayist, moralist, considered a modern Stoic, believed mankind is noble, employed epigrammic language to express observations of human conduct and motives, dies in Paris

1715 Luc de Clapiers, born in Aix-en-Provence, France, writer, essayist, moralist, considered a modern Stoic, believed mankind is noble, employed epigrammic language to express observations of human conduct and motives


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