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2013 Event - The famous painting, 'Liberty Leading the People' by Eugene Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 is vandalized while on loan to the Louvre-Lenz museum in Lens, France

2013 Event - Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Justice determines they can defer the latest inauguration of President Hugo Chavez while his cancer operation recovery continues

2012 Event - While Greece struggles to overcome its economic crisis, Antonis Samaras, leader of Greece's New Democratic party, negotiates with political rivals to form a coalition government

2012 Event - While conducting military exercises in the Persian Gulf, Iran successfully test-fires two long-range missiles

2011 Event - Jacques Chirac, former President of France, is declared guilty of embezzlement and violating trust for filling non-existent jobs with party members while serving as Mayor of Paris

2011 Event - A lockout causes the Australia's Qantas airlines to ground its entire fleet while it handles the ongoing industrial dispute

2011 Event - Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Wangari Maathai of Kenya, dies while undergoing treatments for cancer

2011 Event - Cyclist Alberto Contador wins the 2010 Tour de France while seven-time winner of the event, Lance Armstrong, makes his final appearance

2011 Event - Juan Maria Bordaberry, former Uruguayan dictator, dies while under house arrest for murders committed during his dictatorship

2010 Event - While world leaders back Africa's Alassane Ouattara as the Ivory Coast presidential election winner, a swearing-in ceremony is held for Laurent Gbagbo in Cote D'Ivoire

2010 Event - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus claims innocence while being investigated for diverting millions of dollars of aid money from Grameen Bank

2010 Event - The U.K. will increase aid to poor nations, including a 40% increase in Afghanistan, while reducing aid to 'powerhouses' like Russia, China and other eastern European countries

2010 Event - At last count, 76 people are dead while hundreds have disappeared after a train crash in the Republic of Congo caused the train to fall into a ravine

2010 Event - Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda sign an agreement seeking more water from the Nile; Kenya issues support while Egypt and Sudan remain opposed

2010 Event - Two men on motorcycles fatally shot Pedro Alcantara de Souza, a Brazilian land reform activist, five times in the head while he tried to ride his bicycle in Para

2010 Event - Six people are killed by a remotely operated bomb while travelling in southern Afghanistan in Tirin Kot, the capital of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province

2010 Event - Ejup Ganic, former President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is stopped while trying to escape war crime charges, at London Heathrow airport

2007 Death - Johnny Hart, cartoonist, creator, comic strips, 'The Wizard of Id', 'B.C.', strips each appeared in over 1,000 newspapers, dies of a stroke while at the drawing table, at age 76

2003 Death - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Swedish foreign minister, dies in Stockholm, Sweden, at age 46, murdered by a knife attack while shopping

2000 Death - Renato Di Paolo, method actor, accidentally strangled himself while playing Judas onstage, dies at 22

1997 Event - New York Ranger Wayne Gretsky wife Janet is knocked unconcious and gets 2 stitches while watching the game as a plexiglass falls on her

1996 Death - Ray Coleman, born in Britain, journalist, author, wrote biographies of The Beatles while editor-in-chief, Melody Maker, music magazine, dies at 59

1996 Death - John McSheery, dies of heart attack while umpiring a game, at 51

1995 Death - Rob Harris, sky surfer, dies while skydiving at 28

1995 Event - Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special

1995 Death - Simon Bailey, Reverend Simon Bailey, priest, Anglican, Labor Party member, socialist historian associates include Dorothy Thompson, J.B. Priestly, E.P Thompson, died while distributing leaflets for the Labor Party

1994 Death - Roland Ratzenberger, race car driver, claimed 1962 as birth year to appear younger and extend racing career, won 1986 Brands Hatch Formula Ford Festival, dies while qualifying for San Marino Prix, in 1994

1992 Event - New York City Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train

1992 Event - Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in "Man of LaMancha"

1989 Event - In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines

1989 Event - Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage and knocks himself out

1989 Event - Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women

1983 Event - While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull

1982 Death - David Blue, rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41

1982 Event - 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec

1980 Event - Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50

1978 Event - Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in New York City

1972 Event - John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded

1969 Event - Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly"

1968 Event - Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon

1966 Birthday - Paula Jones, born in Lonoke, Arkansas, sued President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment, case was dismissed but while on appeal Clinton paid Jones $850,000

1966 Event - Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..."

1965 Event - Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954 - 1965) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 home runs while playing together on the same team

1963 Birthday - Paul Way, born in Kingsbury, Middlesex, British golfer, won Brabazon Trophy, 1981, turned pro in 1982, won KLM Dutch Open while on the European Tour, second youngest Ryder Cup player in 1983, and 1985, finished in the top 100 in 1993, on the Order of Merit, after 1997, his participation in tournament golf waned

1962 Event - Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds

1959 Event - Hiram Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)

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

1957 Death - Anthony J Morabito, co-owner of San Francisco '49ers, dies while watching a game

1957 Event - Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher

1951 Death - Simon Barere, pianist, dies while perfoming at Carnegie Hall

1947 Birthday - Chetan Chauhan, Indian cricket opener, Gavaskar's partner for a while

1945 Event - A riot ensued in San Francisco while the city was celebrating the end of WW II

1943 Event - Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines," premieres in London

1943 Event - Lead, South Dakota, temp is 52 degrees F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood SD records -16 degrees F

1937 Birthday - Ray Coleman, born in Britain, journalist, author, wrote biographies of The Beatles while editor-in-chief, Melody Maker, music magazine

1936 Event - Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge U vs. MCC

1934 Event - While Washington player-mgr Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson owner Clark Griffith's niece and adopted daughter, he is sold to Red Sox

1923 Event - Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City

1921 Event - AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7

1918 Event - President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside U.S. while in office

1912 Event - Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee

1911 Death - Bill Murdoch, cricketer, dies while watching Australia vs. South Africa Test

1907 Birthday - Mascha Kaleko, born in Chrzanow, Austria, now Poland, writer, German language poet, first book 'Lyrisches Stenogrammheft' was burned in Nazi book burnings, wrote advertising copy while living in New York

1894 Event - Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man

1876 Death - Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's

1542 Death - Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R

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