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Historical Events

1640 - English Long Parliament forms
1883 - US Supreme Court decides federal courts have no jurisdiction over Native American tribal Council (Ex parte Crow Dog)
1886 - Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao
1930 - Bank of Italy is renamed the Bank of America
1968 - Oregon voters elect lawyer Bob Packwood (36) as their US Senator

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Famous Birthdays

1799 - William Sprague III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1842-44)), born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1856)
1910 - Richard Hurndall, British actor (Doctor Who, The Inheritors, It's Murder But Is It Art), born in Darlington, Durham, England (d. 1984)
1928 - Nick Holonyak Jr., American electrical engineer and inventor of the first visible light-emitting diode, born in Zeigler, Illinois (d. 2022)
1962 - Gabe Newell, American computer programmer, businessman and co-founder of Valve Corporation (Half-Life, Steam), born in Colorado
1973 - Ben Fogle, British b...