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1176 - At the Battle of Myriokephalon, the Byzantines fail to recover Anatolia from Turkish rule
1737 - Georg-August University opens in Göttingen
1943 - Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet
2018 - Flooding in Nigeria kills over 100 people as Benue and Niger Rivers overflow

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Famous Birthdays

1859 - Richard Henry Warren, American organist and composer, born in Albany, New York (d. 1933)
1883 - William Carlos Williams, American physician and poet, born in Rutherford, New Jersey (d. 1963)
1944 - Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber (Mount Everest), born in Brixen (Bressanone), Italy
1959 - Will Gregory, British keyboardist, sax player, producer (Goldfrapp), and composer (Piccard in Space), born in Bristol, England
1963 - Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator, born in Petah Tikva, Israel

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Famous Deaths

1422 - Constantine II, last Tsar of Bulgaria (1397-1422), dies in exile at 52 or 53
1961 - Adnan Menderes, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (1950-60), executed by the junta at 62
1991 - John Thomas, American co-inventor of fiberglass, dies at 83
2017 - Laudir de Oliveira, Brazilian percussionist (Sérgio Mendes; Chicago, 1973-81), dies on stage in Rio de Janeiro, of a heart attack at 77
2022 - Joseph P. Hoar, American US Marine Corps general (Commander in Chief of US Central Command, 1991-94), dies at 87

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