CoM Moderators Posted August 23 Posted August 23 Historical Events 1938 - England scores 7-903 declared against Australia, with Len Hutton scoring 364 1957 - US performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site 1982 - USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan 2004 - Winning pitcher Lisa Fernandez (4-0) leads the US to the softball gold medal at the Athens Olympics, beating Australia 5-1 2017 - India's toll from swine flu rises above 1,000 for the year, with 22,186 cases reported More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1754 - Louis XVI, King of France (1774-93) eventually guillotined, born in Versailles, Yvelines, France (d. 1793) 1917 - Tex Williams, American country-western singer, born in Ramsey, Illinois (d. 1985) 1949 - Shelley Long, American actress (Diane in Cheers, Money Pit), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana 1954 - Halimah Yacob, Singaporean politician (1st female President of Singapore (2017-), born in Singapore 1964 - Kong Hee, Singaporean founder and Senior Pastor of the City Harvest movement in Asia, born in Singapore More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1927 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Massachusetts 1957 - Eugène Schueller, French chemist, founder of L'Oréal, dies at 76 1989 - Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn NY in a racially motivated attack 2006 - Jacques Wildberger, Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning), dies at 84 2015 - Jean Darling, American child actress (Our Gang), dies at 93 More Famous Deaths »
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