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2012 Event - Anglo-Irish poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis' archive, which inclues manuscripts and a letter from W. H. Auden are donated to Oxford University's Bodelian Library by Tamasin and Daniel Day-Lewis

1997 Event - New York Yankee Cecil Fielder hits his 300th home run

1997 Event - Mark McGwire, is 4th to home run on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, and Cecil Fielder)

1997 Death - Cecil Lewis, airman/writer, dies at 98

1996 Event - Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game

1995 Death - Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect, dies at 69

1994 Death - Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman, dies at 92

1992 Event - Actress Cecil Hoffman (Zoe-LA Law) marries Paul Slye

1990 Death - Cecil Effinger, composer, dies at 76

1990 Event - Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 home runs (& 51st)

1990 Event - For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game

1990 Event - Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent

1987 Death - Cecil Brown, news correspondent (CBS), dies at 80

1986 Death - David Cecil, English Writer

1980 Death - Cecil Burleigh, composer, dies at 95

1980 Death - Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76

1976 Death - Cecil Weston, actor (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 86

1973 Death - Cecil Kellaway, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 78

1971 Death - Cecil Parker, actor (Court Jester, Operation Snafu), dies at 73

1971 Event - Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate

1970 Birthday - Cecil Doggette, WLAF cornerback for the Frankfurt Galaxy

1968 Birthday - Cecil Gray, NFL tackle for the Arizona Cardinals

1966 Death - Cecil Scott Forester, English author (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66

1964 Birthday - Chuck Cecil, NFL safety for the Houston Oilers

1963 Birthday - Cecil Fielder, born in Los Angeles, California, infielder, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees

1960 Death - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer, dies at 70

1959 Death - A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, dies at 51

1959 Death - Cecil B[lount] de Mille, producer (10 Commandments), dies at 77

1959 Death - Cecil B. DeMille, American Producer

1958 Death - Edgar A Robert Cecil viscount of Chelwood, (Nobel 1937), dies at 94

1951 Death - Cecil Gray, composer, dies at 56

1946 Birthday - Gram Paarson, Cecil Connor, Winter Haven, Florida, rocker, Byrds

1946 Event - Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped

1944 Birthday - Henry Cecil, British organizer

1941 Death - Cecil Forsyth, composer, dies at 71

1934 Birthday - Carl Cecil Cain, Freeport, Illinois, basketball player 1956 Olympics gold

1933 Event - Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game

1933 Birthday - Cecil Perceval Taylor, composer and jazz pianist, University of Wisconsin

1931 Event - Lord Cecil of British Government says War was never so improbable

1930 Birthday - Cecil Taylor, American Musician

1927 Birthday - Cecil Bodker, born in Fredericia, Denmark, writer, won Mildred L. Batchelder Award for her book titled, The Leopard, considered the most outstanding book originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, then published in the United States

1925 Birthday - Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect

1924 Death - Cecil [James] Sharp, English folk musician, dies at 64

1923 Event - Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten Commandments" premieres

1916 Birthday - Cecil Blacker, CEO, British Equestrian Federation

1914 Birthday - Cecil Effinger, composer

1909 Birthday - Cecil Marley, cricketer, Jamaican batsman 1928 - 1946, WICBC president

1907 Birthday - A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico

1907 Birthday - Cecil Brown, news correspondent, CBS

1905 Death - Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer, dies at 79

1904 Birthday - Cecil Day-Lewis, England, poet laureate/detective, Nicholas Blake

1904 Birthday - Cecil Beaton, England, royal family photographer

1903 Birthday - Cecil Frank Powell, England, physicist, discovered pion, Nobel 1950

1902 Birthday - David Cecil, English Writer

1902 Event - Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million

1902 Death - Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 dies at 48

1901 Event - Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner

1901 Birthday - Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman

1901 Birthday - Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher, Daily Mirror

1901 Event - H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner

1900 Event - General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes

1899 Birthday - Cecil Scott Forester, England, historical novelist, Horatio Hornblower

1898 Birthday - Cecil Bowra, British classics expert, Greek experience

1898 Birthday - Cecil Lewis, airman and writer

1897 Birthday - Cecil Parker, Hastings England, actor, Indiscreet, Tale of 2 Cities

1896 Event - Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony

1895 Birthday - Cecil Gray, composer

1894 Birthday - Cecil Kellaway, South Africa, actor, Mr Earnshaw-Wuthering Heights

1891 Birthday - Cecil Dixon, cricket off-spinner, 1 Test for South Africa, 3-118, pair

1890 Event - Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland and Salisbury

1890 Event - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Ft. Salisbury)

1890 Event - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria)

1890 Event - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi

1890 Event - Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony

1890 Event - Cecil Rhodes' colonies attack Motlousi at Matabeleland

1889 Event - Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia

1889 Birthday - Cecil Weston, South Africa, actor, Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn

1889 Birthday - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer

1888 Event - Ndebele-king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes, Mashonaland 100 pounds per month

1888 Event - Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company

1885 Birthday - Cecil Burleigh, composer

1881 Birthday - Cecil B deMille, Massachusetts, directed God, 10 Commandments, Cleopatra

1881 Birthday - Cecil B. DeMille, American Producer

1870 Birthday - Cecil Forsyth, composer

1864 Birthday - Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations, Nobel 1937

1864 Birthday - Robert Cecil, viscount of Chelwood, Nobel 1937

1859 Birthday - Cecil [James] Sharp, born in London, England, folk musician

1853 Birthday - Cecil Rhodes, born in Hertfordshire, England, British Statesman, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896

1845 Birthday - Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion, 1866

1830 Birthday - Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, C, British Prime Minister, 1885-1902

1826 Birthday - Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer

1652 Death - Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies

1633 Event - Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore

1612 Death - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/Prime Minister 1598 - 1612, dies at 48

1598 Death - William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77

1563 Birthday - Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister, 1598-1612

1550 Event - William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs

1520 Birthday - William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier













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