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2010 Event - China's largest fair, Canton Fair, opens and is closely watched as it is the barometer of the country's trade and economic development

1993 Death - Jerry Hunt, composer, used live electronics to create new works, employed ritualistic performance techniques, dies in Canton, Texas, of suicide

1979 Event - Pro Football Researchers Association forms, Canton, Ohio

1979 Event - Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established

1971 Birthday - Trey Ames, born in Canton, Ohio, actor, David-A Year in the Life

1970 Birthday - Macy Gray, born in Canton, Ohio, singer, songwriter, actress, Grammy-Award winner, films, 'Idlewild', 'Training Day', hit song, 'I Try', famous album, 'On How Life Is'

1970 Birthday - Nicole Wood, born in Canton, Ohio, playmate, Apr, 1993

1967 Birthday - Darla Michele Pruett, Canton Georgia, Miss Georgia-America 1991

1967 Event - WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting

1964 Birthday - Barbara Chiu, born in Canton, China, Canada table tennis player, 1992, 1996 Olympics

1963 Event - Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated in Canton, Ohio

1963 Birthday - Lily Yip, Canton China, U.S. table tennis player, 1992, 1996 Olympics

1962 Birthday - Johnny Huang, Canton China, table tennis player 1996 Olympics

1962 Birthday - James Carpenter, Canton Conn, fencer-epee 1996 Olympics

1961 Event - NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio

1956 Birthday - Phillip Gregory Hubbard, born in Canton, Ohio, basketball 1976 Olympics gold

1951 Birthday - Ron Klink, born in Canton, Ohio, Representative-D-Pennsylvania 1993 - 2001

1951 Birthday - Lee Wilkof, born in Canton, Ohio, actor, WEB, Delta House, Elliot-Newhart

1949 Event - Chinese Red army occupies Canton

1948 Birthday - Ronald W. Harris, born in Canton, Ohio, lightweight boxer, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics

1947 Event - 200 die when train derails and fell into a river in Canton, China

1942 Birthday - Eddie Levert, born in Canton, Ohio, vocalist, O'Jays-For the Love of Money

1939 Event - U.S. and U.K. agree on joint control of Canton and Enderbury Island in the Pacific

1938 Event - Japanese troops occupies Canton

1934 Birthday - Adolf Muschg, born in Zollikon, canton of Zurich, writer, German language and literature professor, wrote provocative works, including If Auschwitz is in Switzerland

1932 Birthday - Peggy Ann Garner, Canton Ohio, actress, Little Women, Daisy Kenyon

1926 Birthday - Jean Peters, born in Canton, Ohio, actress, Viva Zapata!, Apache, Deep Waters

1926 Event - Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton

1923 Event - Canton Bulldogs win 1st on way to 17-0 season

1920 Event - National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association

1917 Birthday - I. M. Pei, born in Canton, China, architect, 1961 Brunner Prize

1916 Birthday - Jack Paar, Canton Ohio, TV host, Jack Paar Show

1907 Birthday - Enoch Light, Canton Ohio, orchestra leader, Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith

1904 Birthday - Keye Luke, born in Canton, China, actor, Across the Pacific, Yangtse Incident

1901 Birthday - Carroll Nye, born in Canton, Ohio, actress, Lawless Woman

1901 Birthday - Ernest Lawrence, born in Canton, South Dakota, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939

1897 Birthday - Wilbur, Pete, Henry, NFL tackle, Canton, New York Giants, Pottsville

1894 Birthday - Guy Chamberlin, early NFL end/coach, Canton, Frankford, Cards

1892 Birthday - Joe Guyon, NFL halfback, Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc

1890 Birthday - Jack Cusack, pro football pioneer, Canton Bulldogs

1887 Event - British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong

1887 Birthday - John Finley Williamson, Canton Ohio, conductor, Westminster Choir

1886 Birthday - Ian Wolfe, Canton, Illinois, actor, Diary of a Madman, Wizards and Warriors

1875 Birthday - Carter G Woodson, New Canton, Virginia, American historian, black studies

1862 Event - Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die

1847 Birthday - James Deacon White, Canton, New York, ball player jumped teams in 1876, Chi

1845 Event - Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton, China

1823 Birthday - Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton

1809 Event - Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland

1558 Event - Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland

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