Today in History for 13th October 2022

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Historical Events

1899 - 7,000 laid-off black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal
1924 - Mecca falls without struggle to Saudi forces led by Abdulaziz Ibn Saud
1941 - Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children and old people
1963 - The term "Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at the London Palladium
1989 - Bob Quinn resigns as NY Yankee VP/GM and replaced by Harding Peterson
1993 - Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.

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Famous Birthdays

1453 - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales and the only son of King Henry VI of England and Margaret of Anjou, born in London (d. 1471)
1912 - Jan Peeters, Dutch watercolor painter, stained glass, tile, and monument artist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1992)
1923 - Faas Wilkes, Dutch soccer star (Xerxes, Fortuna, Inter Milan), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 2006)
1940 - (Farrell) "Pharoah" Sanders, American jazz saxophonist (John Coltrane groups; "Karma"), born in Little Rock, Arkansas (d. 2022)
1963 - Michael Lavine, American portrait photographer and contributor to several grunge rock album art packages (Nirvana; Soundgarden), born in San Francisco, California
1980 - Scott Parker, English soccer midfielder (18 caps; Charlton, West Ham, Fulham) and manager (Fulham, AFC Bournemouth), born in Lambeth, England

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Famous Deaths

1941 - GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies
1987 - Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85
2000 - Jean Peters, American actress (Viva Zapata!, Apache, Deep Waters), dies at 73
2001 - Peter Doyle, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers - "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing") dies of throat cancer at 52
2007 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
2010 - Vernon Biever, American photographer (b. 1923)

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