Today in History for 24th August 2022

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Historical Events

1853 - 1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum at Moon's Lake House, near Saratoga Springs, New York (popular legend says he invented though earlier recipes exist)
1877 - American outlaw John Wesley Hardin, wanted for murder, is arrested by Texas Rangers on a train in Pensacola, Florida
1883 - US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Two-time defending champion Richard Sears wins 3rd straight title; beats James Dwight 6-2, 6-0, 9-7
2013 - 4 people are killed in a helicopter crash in the Shetland Islands
2015 - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that for the 1st time 1 billion people logged into Facebook
2021 - 16th Paralympic Games opens in Tokyo, Japan

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Famous Birthdays

1787 - James Weddell, British sailor and Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea), born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 1834)
1899 - Ruth Schaumann, German painter, writer and sculptor (Rose, Black King), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1975)
1929 - Willie Winfield, American doo-woop singer (Harptones - "Life Is But A Dream"; “A Sunday Kind of Love”), born in Surrey, Virginia (d. 2021)
1942 - Joe Chambers, American rock guitarist and vocalist (Chambers Brothers), born in Los Angeles, California
1952 - Vaneese Thomas, American RandB, jazz and soul blues singer, ("Let's Talk It Over"), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1972 - Ava DuVernay, American director, writer and producer (13th, Selma, Queen Sugar), born in Long Beach, California

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Famous Deaths

1683 - John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
1921 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet, dies at 35
1992 - Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader/jurist (Constitution), dies at 74
2002 - Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
2003 - John Jacob Rhodes, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona), dies at 86
2010 - Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director, dies at 46

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