Today in History for 10th September 2022

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Historical Events

1872 - Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam
1880 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo
1943 - German troops occupy Rome and take took over the protection of Vatican City
1990 - 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0
1998 - 15th MTV Video Music Awards: Madonna and Will Smith win
2001 - Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan is awarded Actor of the Century at the Alexandria Film Festival

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Famous Birthdays

1585 - Ercole Porta, Italian church composer, born in Bologna (d. 1630)
1714 - Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer, born in Aversa, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1774)
1788 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (discovered flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley), born in Rethel, Ardennes, France (d. 1868)
1939 - Topham Brinton, English carpet magnate/multi-millionaire
1948 - Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born French film director, born in Algiers, French Algeria
1983 - Joey Votto, Canadian baseball first baseman (NL MVP 2010; 6 × MLB All-Star; Cincinnati Reds), born in Toronto, Ontario

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Famous Deaths

1749 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (translation of Newton's Principia), dies in childbirth at 42
1922 - Arpad Szendy, Hungarian composer, dies at 59
1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
1991 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (6 Grand Slam singles titles), dies at 83
2015 - Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (I Vitelloni, Ulysses, Sciuscià), dies at 83
2017 - Harry Landers [Sorokin], American actor (Star Trek, Ben Casey, Drive a Crooked Road), dies at 96

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