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2010 Event - In volume, BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill has overtaken Ixtoc I to become the worst oceanic oil spill in U.S. recorded history

1988 Event - Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released

1983 Event - Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolph Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)

1955 Death - Wyllis Cooper, TV narrator (Volume One), dies at 56

1927 Birthday - Dieter Noll, born in Riesa, Germany, writer, wrote two-volume novel Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt, over two million copies sold, volume one used as East German school curriculum

1909 Birthday - Hilde Domin, born in Cologne, Germany, lyric poet, writer, German-language poet, wrote Das zweite Paradies (The Second Paradise), volume of prose

1899 Birthday - Wyllis Cooper, Pekin, Illinois, TV narrator, Volume One

1884 Event - 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published

1776 Event - 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published

1749 Event - 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published

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