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Facts
45 BC The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time
630 The Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that captures it bloodlessly.
1758 The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature establish the "starting point" for standardized species names across the animal kingdom, based on the binomial nomenclature by Carolus Linnaeus 10th edition of Systema Naturae
1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in US confederate states
1896 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen announces his discovery of x-rays
1958 European Economic Community, better known as the European Common Market starts operation
Deaths
404 Telemachus, Roman monk, murdered
1748 Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
1894 Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
1953 Hank Williams, country singer (Cold Cold Heart), dies at 29
1969 Barton Maclane, American actor (The Quaterback, I Dream of Jeannie), dies of cancer at 66
1985 Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo), dies at 85
1992 Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and US Navy admiral who invented the first compiler for a universal computer programming language and is credited with coining the phrase 'debugging’, dies at 85
1994 Cesar Romero, American actor (Batman, Ocean's 11), dies at 86
1998 Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (31 Grand Slams), dies at 92
2005 Shirley Chisholm, 1st African American Congresswoman and presidential candidate, dies of a stroke at 80
2012 Gary Ablett, English footballer and manager, dies of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma at 46
2013 Patti Page [Clara Ann Fowler], American pop singer, dies at 85
2016 Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-born American cinematographer (Close Encounters of the Third Kind), dies at 85
Sport
1838 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
1948 Bradman scores 132 in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test v India
1975 63rd Women's Australian Open: Evonne Goolagong Cawley beats Martina Navratilova (6-3, 6-2)
Films and TV
1944 1st feature-length foreign movie "African Journey", shown on TV, NYC
1976 NBC replaces the peacock logo
Born on this day
1961 Fiona Phillips, British television presenter
1982 David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
Helen Wills Moody
Gary Ablett