Today in History for 26th September 2023

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Historical Events

1949 - Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign torn down, reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood
1968 - 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV
1983 - Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
1987 - Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games
1995 - Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld v Western Prov)
2002 - Overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000

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Famous Birthdays

1903 - Gerhard Nebel, German writer, born in Dessau (d. 1974)
1926 - Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European philologist (Indo-Iranian languages), born in Linz, Austria (d. 2011)
1927 - Joyce Jameson, American comedienne and actress (Spike Jones Show, The Outlaw Josey Wales), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1987)
1937 - Valentin Pavlov, Russian politician and Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (1991), born in Moscow, Soviet Union (d. 2003)
1983 - Zoe Perry, American stage and screen actress (Young Sheldon), born in Chicago, Illinois
1994 - Marcell Jacobs, Italian track athlete (Olympic gold - men's 100m 2020; first Italian to win the event), born in El Paso, Texas

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Famous Deaths

1952 - George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher and poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88
1961 - Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67
1966 - Helen Kane, American actress and singer (Heads Up, Pointed Heels), dies of cancer at 62
1983 - Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (Destins, Belle Menuniere), dies at 76
1996 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist (1973 Nobel Prize - organometallic compounds), dies at 75
2017 - Robert Delpire, French publisher, editor and photographer, dies at 91

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