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2012 Event - A fire breaks out in the Tamweel Tower, one of about 80 towers built or still under construction in the Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul announces he will end his campaign, but that he will still try to obtain delegates before the Republican National Convention in August

2011 Event - The IAEA releases a report stating Iran has performed activities relating to the development of a nuclear device, and that the project is likely still under way

2011 Event - Four states and 1.5 million people in the Eastern U.S. still have no power after a 2011 Halloween nor-easter hit the area with unusually early snowfall

2011 Event - The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami death toll now exceeds 15,000 with 9,000 still missing and 115,000 evacuees still living in shelters

2011 Event - Tropical cyclone Anthony lands in Bowen in Queensland, Australia, forcing a disaster zone declared in areas still recovering from the 2010-2011 Queensland floods

1996 Event - Tendulkar scores 137 for Ind vs. SL in Cricket World Cup, but still lose

1994 Death - Deborah Bear, English still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44

1993 Event - Paul Cezannes still life sells for $28,600,000 in New York City

1991 Event - "People Are Still Having Sex," by LaTour hits #35

1990 Event - For 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in 8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pitts still beats Philadelphia 11-0

1990 Death - Palmer Deane, actor (Still of the Night), dies

1988 Event - WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive

1985 Event - Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, New Zealand still wins

1983 Event - Kapil Dev takes 9-83 vs. WI at Ahmedabad, but India still lose

1978 Death - William Grant Still, composer, dies at 83

1974 Birthday - Bryan Still, wide receiver for the San Diego Chargers

1972 Birthday - Megan Still, Australian rower 1996 Olympics

1971 Death - Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61

1971 Death - Robert Still, composer, dies at 60

1964 Death - Cole Porter, composer (Still of the Night), dies at 73

1961 Birthday - Susan Leigh Still, Augusta, Georgia, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-83, 94

1957 Event - Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham

1952 Event - Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)

1948 Birthday - Dan Seals, McCamey Texas, vocalist, Seals and Crofts-You Still Move Me

1939 Event - Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect

1937 Birthday - Bill Anderson, country singer, Still, From This Pen

1935 Birthday - Ken Still, born in Tacoma, Washington, golfer, won three Professional Golf Association Tour events, played in the Senior Professional Golf Association Tour

1933 Event - Packers make 5 1st downs, Giants make 0, but still win 10-7

1919 Event - Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with U.S. Army

1917 Death - Andrew Taylor Still, osteopath, successfully reduced fractures, founded first school of osteopathic medicine, died at age 89

1914 Birthday - Robert Wise, director, Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story

1913 Event - Yankees commit 8 errors and still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings

1910 Event - Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won

1910 Birthday - Robert Still, composer

1909 Birthday - Michael Rennie, England, actor, Robe, Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still

1904 Birthday - Clyfford Still, U.S., abstract painter

1897 Event - New York City Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active)

1895 Birthday - William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer, Afro-American

1887 Birthday - Juan Gris, born in Spain, cubist painter, Still Life Before an Open Window

1877 Event - General strike brings U.S. railroad to a stand still

1870 Birthday - 19 kittens, born to Tarawood Antigone, 4 still born

1855 Birthday - Guido Adler, Austria, musicologist, Still in the Music

1847 Event - Envelope bearing 1st U.S. 10 cents stamps, still exists today

1839 Event - Detroit Boat Club forms (& still exists)

1828 Birthday - Andrew Taylor Still, born in Lee County, Virginia, osteopath, successfully reduced fractures, founded first school of osteopathic medicine

1780 Event - About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day it's cause is still unexplained

1779 Death - Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, French still life painter, dies at 80

1749 Death - Jan van Huysum, Dutch still life painter, dies at 66

1699 Birthday - Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, French still life painter

1695 Death - Melchior de Hondecoeter, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 58

1693 Death - Willem Calf, Rotterdams still life painter, dies at 73

1687 Death - Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried

1679 Death - Abraham Mignon, Dutch still life painter, dies at 38

1661 Death - Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64

1640 Birthday - Abraham Mignon, still life painter

1619 Birthday - Willem Kalf, Rotterdam, Netherlands, painter, still lifes

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