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1993 Alex Lyon, English Labor Lower house leader (1966-83), dies at 61
1989 New York City court of appeals overturns lower court decision and returns America's Cup back to U.S. (from New Zealand) 1972 Jonathan Wyatt, Lower Hutt New Zealand, 5000m 1996 Olympics 1972 U.S. Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws 1971 Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment 1964 Caroline Anne Hare, Lower hutt New Zealand, 5k/10k 1996 Olympics 1945 Jeremy Hanley, British Lower house member 1942 Gunter Wallraff, born in Burscheid, Germany, writer, undercover journalist, wrote on tabloid journalism, lower working class conditions 1935 Esmond Bulmer, English cider brewer/Conservative Lower house leader 1935 Georg Katzer, born in Habelschwerdt, Lower Silesia, German composer, established electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic 1934 U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses" 1930 Bill Benyon, English large landowner/Conservative Lower house leader 1927 John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75 1926 Cranley Onslow, born in England, politician, Conservative Member of Parliament for Woking, called for lower middle class taxes, life peer as Baron Onslow of Working in Surrey County 1923 Textile strike in Enschede, Netherlands, against lower wages, begins 1909 2nd viscount Camrose, British Conserv Lower house leader, 1941-45 1901 Blaz Arnic, born in Luce, Lower Styria, Austria-Hungary, Slovenian composer, best known for his nine symphonies, The Society of Slovene Composers consider him the great Slovenian symphonic master of the 20th century 1897 Barbara baroness Wootton of Abinger, English Lower house leader 1892 James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house 1874 I D Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Miss legislature 1857 Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited 1856 Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War 1851 John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house member 1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada 1797 John Wilkes, English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader, dies at 72 1792 Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city 1770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) 1728 Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build New York's 1st synagogue 1682 Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France 1450 Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX 1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes 69 Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor |
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