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1977 "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released

1977 Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released

1975 Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80

1973 Franca Fehlauer, born in Hamburg, Germany, golfer, Belgian International, Jr. champ 1991

1973 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory

1966 Tatjana Patitz, born in Hamburg, West Germany, model/actress, Rising Sun

1965 Scottie Pippen, Hamburg Ak, basket forward, Bulls, Gold Medals 1992, 1996 Olympics

1963 Thilo Timothy Newman, Hamburg Germany, writer, Freejack, Alien

1962 Bettina Huebers, born in Hamburg, Germany, illegitimate daughter of Paul McCartney

1962 Storm in Hamburg, kills 265

1961 Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child and My Bonnie, in Hamburg

1960 Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)

1957 Ronald Shusett, Hamburg Germany, author, Project Mankind

1948 Dan Hamburg, born in St. Louis, Missouri, Representative-D-California 1993 - 1995

1943 Nick St. Nicholas, Hamburg Germany, rock bassist, Steppenwolf

1943 RAF bombs Hamburg

1943 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg

1943 772 British bombers attack Hamburg

1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)

1943 Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg

1942 RAF bombs Hamburg

1939 SS St. Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives

1936 Wolf Biermann, born in Hamburg, Germany, singer, songwriter, former East German dissident, wrote folk music, political ballads, studied political economics at Humboldt University of Berlin

1924 Ursula Thiess, Hamburg, actress, Monsoon, Bengal Brigade, Americano

1923 Bert Kaempfert, born in Barmbek, Hamburg, Germany, orchestra leader, songwriter, composed jazz-oriented, easy-listening records including Strangers in the Night and hit Wonderland by Night, Danke Schoen for Wayne Newton and L-O-V-E for Nat King Cole

1923 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg

1919 Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg and Amsterdam

1919 Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg

1919 Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung," premieres in Hamburg

1914 Arno Schmidt, born in Hamburg, Germany, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum

1912 Ingolf Dahl, born in Hamburg, Germany, composer, Andante and Arioso

1912 Russ Case, born in Hamburg, Iowa, orchestra leader, Julius La Rosa Show

1904 Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenber----dorff, Sr, near Hamburg, Germany

1902 Eugen Jochum, Babenhausen Bavaria, German conductor, Hamburg Orchestra

1902 Carl Jaffe, born in Hamburg, Germany, actor, 1st Man in Space, Escapement

1895 Sig Arno, Hamburg, Germany, actor, Holiday in Havana

1894 Paul Dessau, Hamburg Germany, composer/conducter, Berlin, 1925-33

1892 Hans Albers, Hamburg Germany, actor, Blue Angel

1884 Sig Ruman, Hamburg Germany

1876 Black landowner murdered in Hamburg, South Carolina

1876 White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina, killing 5

1844 Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)

1842 City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)

1842 Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder, Rosa opera company

1834 Felix Dahn, born in Hamburg, Germany, writer, wrote 'Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples'

1833 Johannes Brahms, Hamburg Germany, composer, enjoys a good lullaby

1821 Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer, Central Africa

1809 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg Germ, composer, Great Scherzos

1776 Wolfgang von Goethes' "Stella," premieres in Hamburg

1705 Georg F Handels 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg

1681 Johann Mattheson, Hamburg Germany, composer

1678 Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva"

865 Ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies


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