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Born 1917: Dizzy Gillespie (musician)

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1884: Canadian newspaper La Presse debuted

Born 1922: Jack Anderson (journalist)

Born 1939: Lee Harvey Oswald (alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy)

Died 1910: Julia Ward Howe (author)

Died 2013: Ed Lauter (actor)

1582: First day of conversion to Gregorian calendar from Julian for several countries (Poland, Spain, Italy, Portugal), due to Pope Gregory XIII's decree. Great Britain and colonies did not convert until 1752

2004: A Ghanaian-registered Boeing 747 cargo jet crashed and burned on take off from Halifax airport in eastern Canada

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