Today in History for 19th September 2022

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Historical Events

1888 - One of first known modern beauty contests held in Spa, Belgium
1939 - Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland
1940 - Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance
1960 - "LIFE" magazine celebrates artist Anna Mary "Grandma" Moses' 100th birthday by putting her on their cover
1992 - Demolition begins of JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; built in 1926 as Sesquicentennial Stadium, also known as Municipal Stadium, it hosted the 1926 Tunney-Dempsey fight, 41 Army-Navy football games, The Beatles; The Rolling Stones; victory rallies for The NHL Flyers and MLB Phillies; and the US portion of Live-Aid
2004 - 56th Emmy Awards: The Sopranos, Arrested Development, James Spader and Allison Janney win

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Famous Birthdays

1811 - Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader, born in Hartford, New York (d. 1881)
1946 - Michael Elphick, British stage and screen actor (Gorky Park; Boon), born in Chichester, Sussex, England (d. 2002)
1951 - Richard Dashut, American record producer (Bob Welch; Fleetwood Mac: Lindsey Buckingham), born in West Hollywood, California
1959 - Marshall Jefferson, American musician 'father of house music' (Move your Body), born in Chicago, Illinois
1962 - Ken Rosenthal, American sportswriter and reporter, born in Oyster Bay, Long Island
1966 - Soledad O'Brien, American journalist (Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien), born in St. James, New York

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Famous Deaths

1339 - Go-Daigo, 96th Emperor of Japan (1318-39), dies at 50
1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer, dies at 65
1993 - Richard Landau, American screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79
1995 - Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist, dies at 83
1996 - Timothy Nicholson, journalist, dies at 32
2006 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)

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