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Facts
971 War elephant corps of the Southern Han defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops; Southern Han state forced to submit to the Song Dynasty. 1st regular war elephant corps in Chinese army
1368 In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
1556 Shaanxi Earthquake - deadliest ever recorded kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China
1950 Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel
1973 US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War
1978 Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth's ozone layer.
Deaths
1002 Otto III, German king/emperor 983/996-1002, dies at 21
1806 William Pitt the Younger, British Prime Minister (Tory: 1783-1801, 1804-06), dies of a suspected peptic ulceration of his stomach or duodenum at 46
1866 Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785)
1944 Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (The Scream), dies at 80, bequeathing all of his work to the city of Oslo
1981 Samuel Barber, American composer (School for Scandal), dies of cancer at 70
1989 Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist artist (Crucifixion), dies of heart failure at 84
2005 Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
2017 Gorden Kaye, British actor (Allo Allo), dies at 75
Sport
1948 Bradman scores 201 in 272 mins v India, 21 fours 1 six
1979 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1983 Bjorn Borg announces his retirement from tennis
1993 Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack
Films and TV
1948 Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens
1983 "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC
2000 57th Golden Globes: American Beauty, Denzel Washington, & Hilary Swank win
2005 "Numbers", starring Rob Morrow and David Krumholtz, debuts on CBS
Born on this day
1964 Mariska Hargitay, American actress (Law and Order: Special Victims Unit), born in Santa Monica, California
1968 Petr Korda, tennis star (1993 Doubles-Cincinnati), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
Johnny Carson
Gorden Kaye
