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Facts
962 Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist
1688 King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch flees to France from William of Orange
1783 US General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress
1888 Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a prostitute for safe keeping
1920 Government of Ireland Act / Home Rule Act passed partitioning Ireland
1954 The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts
Deaths
558 Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62
1795 Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)
1948 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during WW II (1941-44), hanged for war crimes at 64
1991 Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, among the oldest people in the world, dies at 115
2000 Billy Barty, American actor (Under the Rainbow, Foul Play), dies at 76
2006 Charlie Drake, English comedian (b. 1925)
2007 Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist and composer, dies of kidney failure at 82
2013 Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian general and inventor (AK-47), dies at 94
Sport
1951 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) LA Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game
1981 Geoffrey Boycott becomes leading run-scorer in Test Cricket with 8033
1984 Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG
Films
1928 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network
1938 Margaret Hamilton's costume catches fire in filming of "The Wizard of Oz"
1966 Britain's rock TV show "Ready Steady Go" last program
Born on this day
1961 Carol Smillie, British television personality
1978 Jodie Marsh, British glamour model
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
Billy Barty
Charlie Drake