Today in History for 2nd August 2022

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Historical Events

1924 - A's 1st baseman Joe Hauser sets AL record of 14 total bases in a game; 3 HRs and a double as Philadelphia beats Cleveland Indians, 12-4 at Dunn Field
1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces
1942 - 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
1986 - Lee Elder fires a record 11-under par 61 on his way to winning the Senior PGA Merrill Lynch/Golf Digest Commemorative at Sleepy Hollow CC; mark stands for 11 years
1992 - "Death and the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 159 performances
2019 - Seven-year-old boy operated on after 526 teeth found inside his mouth in Chennai, India

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Famous Birthdays

1915 - Johan Limpers, Dutch sculptor and resistance fighter, born in Heemstede, Netherlands (d. 1944)
1928 - Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), born in Chadderton, Lancashire (d. 1990)
1954 - Sammy McIlroy, Irish soccer star (Manchester United), born in Belfast, United Kingdom
1954 - Lisa Brown, American actress (Guiding Light, Iva-As the World Turns), born in Kansas City, Missouri
1961 - Pete de Freitas, English rock drummer (Echo and the Bunnyman), born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1989)
1962 - Lee Mavers, British singer and songwriter (The La's - "There She Goes"), born in Liverpool, England

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Famous Deaths

257 - St Stephen I, bishop of Rome (Pope) (254-57) and heretic fighter, dies
924 - Ælfweard of Wessex, briefly King of the Anglo-Saxons
1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor (Faust), dies of pleurisy at 48
1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian author and mystic, dies at 55
1969 - Clarence Dickinson, American composer, dies at 96
2004 - Don Tosti, American musician ("Pachuco Boogie"), dies at 81

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