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Facts
1398 Timur (Tamerlane) captures and sacks Delhi, defeating Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies which include elephants
1526 Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition
1788 Russian army of Grigory Potemkin occupies Ocharov
1903 The Wright Brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England
Deaths
535 Emperor Ankan of Japan (b. 466)
1679 Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies
1830 Simón Bolívar, South American revolutionary and president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Santa Marta, Colombia
1907 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish mathematical physicist (Kelvin Scale) and engineer (transatlantic telegraph), dies of a chill at 83
1917 Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler (b. 1878)
1975 Frank Sully, American actor (Along Came Jones, Phantom Thief, Inside the Law), dies at 67
1992 Dana Andrews, American actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83
2003 Otto Graham, NFL Quarterback, dies of a heart aneurysm at 82
2008 Sammy Baugh, American football player, dies at 94
2009 Jennifer Jones [Phyllis Isley], American actress (Farewell to Arms), dies of natural causes at 90
2011 Kim Jong-il, supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) 1994-2011, dies of a suspected heart attack at 70
Born on this day
1978 Manny [Emmanuel Dapidran] Pacquiao, Filipino boxer (first ever eight-division world champion), born in Kibawe, Bukidnon, Philippines
1987 Chelsea [born Bradley] Manning, US soldier who released WikiLeaks, born in Crescent, Oklahoma
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
Dana Andrews
Jennifer Jones