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1988 Event - Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs vs. Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes

1987 Event - Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England

1976 Event - TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run

1973 Birthday - Shane Lee, cricket all-rounder, NSW and Somerset, Australian ODI 1995-

1972 Birthday - Adrian Van Troost, fast cricket bowler, Somerset and Holland

1970 Event - Soap opera "Somerset" premieres

1968 Event - WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting

1967 Birthday - Pam[ela] Bustin, born in Somerset, Massachusetts, field hockey defender 1996 Olympics

1966 Event - 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex vs. Somerset

1965 Death - William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91

1965 Death - W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

1959 Birthday - Tammie Green, Somerset, Ohio, LPGA golfer, 1989 du Maurier Ltd Classic

1959 Birthday - Heidi Bohay, Somerset, New Jersey, actress, Megan-Hotel

1956 Birthday - Peter Roebuck, cricketer, Somerset opening batsman and SMH writer

1944 Birthday - Patti Boyd, born in Somerset, England, Mrs. George Harrison and Mrs. Eric Clapton

1938 Event - Bradman scores 202 Australia vs. Somerset, 225 minutes, 32 fours

1935 Event - Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs vs. Somerset

1935 Event - Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 minutes on debut for Somerset

1928 Birthday - David Somerset, born in England, David Robert Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, criticized for accepting public funds on riverbed land granted to his dukedom 400 years ago

1927 Event - 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record)

1926 Event - W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife," premieres in New York City

1923 Event - Hobbs scores his 100th 100, 116* vs. Somerset at Bath

1920 Event - W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London

1919 Birthday - Geoffrey Luttrell, Lord-Lt of Somerset

1917 Birthday - Arthur C. Clarke, born in Somerset, England, science fiction author, inventor, wrote '2001: A Space Odyssey'

1915 Event - "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published

1914 Birthday - Harold Gimblett, cricketer, legendary Somerset and England batsman

1907 Event - Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Mddx vs. Somerset

1902 Birthday - Arthur Wellard, cricketer, big hitting Somerset and England batsman

1895 Event - Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs vs. Somerset at Taunton

1895 Event - W G Grace completes his 100th 100 vs. Somerset at Bristol

1891 Birthday - J C "Farmer" White, cricketer, Somerset slow lefty 1909-37

1874 Birthday - [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, novelist/poet, Of Human Bondage

1874 Birthday - William Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

1874 Birthday - W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

1873 Birthday - Chard Somerset, 1st woman Cabinet minister, 1929-31

1871 Birthday - Archie MacLaren, cricketer, 424 Lancashire vs. Somerset 1895

1866 Birthday - Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor

1851 Birthday - Isabella Caroline Somerset, temperance leader

1645 Event - Battle at Langport Somerset: Cromwell's New Model-army beats Royalists

1552 Death - Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason

1551 Event - English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset re-arrested

1550 Event - English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed

1549 Event - Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector and imprisoned

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