Today in History for 5th November 2023

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Historical Events

1935 - Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly
1959 - AFL announced with 8 teams
1972 - Vice-President of Sinn Féin Maire Drumm is arrested in the Republic of Ireland
1976 - New AL franchises in Seattle and Toronto fill up their rosters
2012 - Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million
2018 - BBC opens its largest news bureau outside the UK in Nairobi, Kenya with 300 journalists

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Famous Birthdays

1615 - Ibrahim I, 18th Ottoman Sultan (1640-48), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)
1742 - Richard Cosway, English portrait painter, born in Tiverton, England (d. 1821)
1911 - Roy Rogers, American cowboy actor and singer ("Happy Trails"; Roy Rogers Show), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1998)
1929 - Lennart Johansson, Swedish soccer administrator (President Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) 1990–2007), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2019)
1957 - David Moyse, Australian rock vocalist (Air Supply - "All Out Of Love"), born in Adelaide, Australia
1983 - Alexa Chung, English TV presenter, model and designer, born in Privett, England

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Famous Deaths

1660 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1943 - Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter and graphic artist, dies at 62
1969 - Itih Walracen, Sudanese widow of author William Walraven, dies
1989 - Barry Sadler, American singer ("Ballad Of The Green Berets"), dies from complications of being shot 14 months earlier at 49
2020 - Geoffrey Palmer, British actor (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Madness of King George, Butterflies), dies at 93
2020 - Len Barry [Leonard Borisoff], American singer, songwriter and producer (The Dovells - "Bristol Stomp"; solo - "1-2-3"), dies of bone marrow cancer at 78

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