CoM Moderators Posted May 10 Posted May 10 Historical Events 1876 - Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia 1945 - Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese 1983 - Lee Chin Yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul 1998 - Viktor Orbán elected Prime Minister of Hungary after his Fidesz party forms a centre-right coalition the Independent Smallholders Party and Hungarian Democratic Forum 2017 - Apple becomes the first company to be worth more than $800 billion More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1697 - Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné (the elder), French violinist and Baroque composer, born in Lyon, France (d. 1764) 1838 - John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, born in Bel Air, Maryland (d. 1865) 1918 - Dr. T Berry Brazelton, American child development paediatrician, author, TV host (What Every Baby Knows), who developed the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), born in Waco, Texas (d. 2018) 1959 - Cindy Hyde-Smith, American politician (Senator-R-Mississippi 2018-), born in Brookhaven, Mississippi 1970 - Perry Blake, Irish singer-songwriter (The Hunchback of San Francisco), born in Sligo, Ireland More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1034 - Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies 1641 - Johan Banér, Swedish Field Marshal, led Swedish armies during Thirty Years' War, dies at 44 1696 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (The Characters, or the Manners of the Age, with The Characters of Theophrastus), dies at 50 1770 - Charles Avison, English composer, dies at 61 1820 - Matthäus Stegmayer, Austrian composer, dies at 49 More Famous Deaths »
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