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Events and birthdays around the world on this day
In 1678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry.
In 1809 Composer Franz Josef Hayden died in Vienna, Austria.
In 1819 Walt Whitman (in West Hills, NY), poet, born.
In 1868 First recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometers in Paris.
In 1879 First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
In 1908 Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places), born.
In 1910 Union of South Africa was founded.
In 1916 During WW I British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland.
In 1923 Prince Rainier of Monaco, born.
In 1930 Clint Eastwood, actor (Dirty Harry, Heartbreak Ridge, City Heat), born.
In 1950 Tom Berenger, actor, born.
In 1961 South Africa became an independent republic.
In 1962 WW II Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann hung in Israel.
In 1965 Brooke Shields (in New York City), actor, model, born.
In 1970 Tens of thousands of people in Peru died in an earthquake.
In 1974 Israel and Syria sign an agreement concerning the Golan Heights.
In 1988 Americans and Soviets ratify the INF treaty, agreeing to eliminate medium range nuclear warheads.
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