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Facts
1619 René Descartes has the dream that inspires his "Meditations on First Philosophy"
1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English
1885 German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveils the world's first motorcycle
1918 Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air
1989 Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall
Deaths
1556 Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
1891 Arthur Rimbaud, French poet and arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies of a bone cancer at 37
1938 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (1923-38) and founder of the Republic of Turkey, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 57
1956 Harry Ford Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Oil, dies at 80
1982 Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Leader, General Secretary (1964-82), dies of a heart attack at 75
1996 Marjorie Proops, problem page editor, dies at 85
2006 Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
2015 Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of West Germany (SPD, 1974- 82), dies at 96
2015 Pat Eddery, Irish jockey (won Epsom Derby 3x), dies at 63
Born on this day
1944 Tim Rice, English lyricist (Chess Moves, 1 Night in Bangkok), born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire
Marjorie Proops
Diana Coupland