Today in History for 14th October 2022

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Historical Events

1911 - Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379)
1931 - 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University
1956 - Charles Ives' overture "Robert Browning" premieres in NYC
1966 - 175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1979 - 1st Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. by over 100,000 people
1987 - MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat San Francisco Giants, 4 games to 3

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Famous Birthdays

1827 - James Sidney Robinson, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Mansfield, Ohio (d. 1892)
1888 - Katherine Mansfield (Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry), New Zealand short story writer (The Garden Party), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 1923)
1943 - Lance Rentzel, American NFL receiver (Minn, LA) and ex-husband of Joey Heatherton, born in Flushing, New York
1977 - Tina Dico [Dickow], Danish singer-songwriter, born in Åbyhøj, Aarhus, Denmark
1980 - Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
1986 - Tom Craddock, English footballer

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Famous Deaths

1552 - Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
1610 - Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
1958 - Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882)
1981 - Ingemar Liljefors, Swedish composer, dies at 74
2006 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
2019 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic, 'the most notorious literary critic in America' dies at 89

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