Today in History for 7th October 2023

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Historical Events

1763 - George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement
1919 - KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
1943 - Weill, Perelman and Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus" premieres in NYC
2010 - Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat"
2018 - Romanian referendum to ban same sex marriage fails with only 20.4% voting
2019 - Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology awarded to Peter Ratcliffe, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza for discovering how cells sense oxygen

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Famous Birthdays

1881 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
1916 - Walt Rostow, American economist and political theorist (The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto), born in NYC, New York (d. 2003)
1951 - John Mellencamp, American rock singer-songwriter ("Jack and Diane"; "Small Town"; "Pink Houses"), co-founder of Farm Aid, and actor (Falling From Grace), born in Seymour, Indiana
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, Chinese-American cellist (2001 National Medal of Arts, 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom), born in Paris, France
1973 - Dida, Brazilian footballer, born in Bahia, Brazil
1982 - Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer, born in Longvic, France

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Famous Deaths

1555 - Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488)
1925 - Hubert Main, American hymn composer, dies at 86
1999 - Deryck Guyler, British actor (Please Sir!; Sykes), dies at 85
2005 - Doug Young, American national and world powerlifting champion, dies of a heart attack at 61
2008 - Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)
2016 - Johnny Gleeson, Australian cricket spin bowler (29 Tests, 93 wickets, BB 5/61; NSW CA), dies at 78

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