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2009 Eight people are killed, several injured, after gunmen attack a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketeers in Lahore, Pakistan

2001 Lani O'Grady, actress, Eight Is Enough, dies at 46

2001 The heir to the Nepalese throne killed his parents and eight other family members before shooting himself, after an argument over his choice of a bride

2000 Marguerite Churchill, actress, in Broadway's Dinner at Eight, dies at 90

1993 New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield

1991 Eddie Bartell, actor (Every Night at Eight), dies at 83

1977 "Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV

1972 Gwyneth Paltrow, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Pallbearer, Emma, Hard Eight

1965 Moby, born in Harlem, New York, Richard Melville Hall, singer, songwriter, DJ, electronica, eight top 40 songs, album, Play sold 10 million copies worldwide

1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks

1960 Alan Freed and eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola

1960 Sean Kerly, born in Whitstable, Kent, England, Sean Robin Kerly, athlete, field hockey player, awarded bronze medal at 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, 1984, scored eight goals at 1988 Olympics in Seoul, playing for Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad

1958 Werner Schwab, born in Austria, writer, playwright, visual artist, studied sculpture at Vienna's Akademie der bildenden Kunste in 1990, wrote sixteen plays, produced eight, controversial works in the Austrian Black comedy tradition

1955 Buster Mottram, born in Kingston upon Thames, in south-west London, English tennis player, ranked 15th best tennis player in the world, represented Great Britain in Davis Cup eight times

1950 David Strathairn, actor, LA Confidential, Eight Men Out

1929 Robert Henri, U.S. painter (The Eight), dies at 63

1917 Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game


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