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(Public) On This Day (by Bruce)
Events and birthdays around the world on this day

In 254 St Stephen I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
In 1812 Edward Lear England, landscape painter, writer of nonsense verse, born.
In 1820 Florence Nightingale Florence, Italy, nurse (Crimean War), born.
In 1881 Treaty of Bardo, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
In 1929 Burt Bacharach composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again), born.
In 1936 George VI's coronation in Great Britain.
In 1937 Beryl Burton UK, won record (7) women's cycling titles, born.
In 1940 Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River.
In 1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender.
In 1948 Steve Winwood England, rocker (A Higher Love), born.
In 1949 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade.
In 1950 Shozo Fujii judo champion, born.
In 1960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra TV special.
In 1962 Emilio Estevez actor (Young Guns), born.
In 1963 Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show.
In 1965 Israel and West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations.
In 1972 Paul McCartney and Wings release Mary Had a Little Lamb.
In 1977 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London).
In 1982 In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II.
In 1984 South African prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years.
In 1990 Nora Dunn and Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting.