Today in History for 9th September 2023

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Historical Events

1817 - Alexander Twilight, probably first African American to graduate from a US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
1922 - St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0
1982 - Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight
2002 - MLB Arizona Diamondbacks' lefthanded pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record
2012 - 100 people are killed and 350 injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq
2016 - North Korea conducts its fifth nuclear test at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, at the time its largest ever test at 10 kilotons but superseded by the 2017 test

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Famous Birthdays

1731 - Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican Jesuit teacher and writer, born in Veracruz, Mexico (d. 1787)
1875 - Jack O'Connor, Australian cricket fast bowler (4 Tests, 13 wickets, BB 5/40; NSW CA, SA CA), born in Boorowa, Australia (d. 1941)
1896 - Fritz Reutter, German composer and pedagogue, born in Löbtau, Saxony, German Empire (d. 1963)
1926 - Robert Reese, American actor, born in Port Arthur, Texas (d. 1992)
1929 - Stan Parris, American politician (Rep-R-VA, 1973-74, 81-91), born in Champaign, Illinois (d. 2010)
1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin), born in Örebro, Sweden

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Famous Deaths

1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
1963 - Ernst Kantorowicz, German-American historian (Laudes regiae), dies at 68
1966 - Leon de Smet, Belgian painter (Luminist school), dies at 85
1981 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist, dies at 80
2014 - Antonín Tučapský, Czech composer, teacher, and choral conductor, dies at 86
2019 - Robert Frank, Swiss-American photographer (The Americans), and filmmaker (Pull My Daisy; Candy Mountain), dies at 94

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