Today in History for 9th February 2024

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Historical Events

1922 - Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
1935 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1953 - WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
1960 - AFL and NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact
1990 - Namibia's constitution ratified
2006 - 56th Berlin International Film Festival: "Grbavica" wins the Golden Bear

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Famous Birthdays

1909 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese vocalist and actress (Copacabana; Date With Judy), born in Marco de Canavezes, Portugal (d. 1955)
1914 - Ralph Herman, American Emmy Award-winning composer (From the Scriptures; Circus Time), orchestra leader, and music director (ABC-TV, 1952-71), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1994)
1927 - Joe Maneri, American jazz composer, saxophone and clarinet player (Boston Microtonal Society), born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 2009)
1954 - Christopher Gardner, American entrepreneur
1971 - Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer
1997 - Catie Waters, American jazz and RandB singer-songwriter, born in Fayetteville, Arkansas

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Famous Deaths

1875 - Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion (1866), dies at 28
1964 - Willie Bryant, American jazz singer, bandleader, and disc jockey (Sugar Hill Times), dies of a heart attack at 55
2000 - Beau Jack, American boxer (NYSAC world lightweight champion 1942-44), dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 78
2001 - Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist (Nobel Prize in Economics, 1978; Turing Award, 1975), dies at 84
2001 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2009 - Vic Lewis, British jazz guitarist, bandleader, composer, and artist manager (NEMS), and cricket club owner, dies at 89

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