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Facts
1095 Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
1295 English King Edward I calls what later became known as "The Model Parliament" extending the authorities of its representatives
1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize
1943 Conference of Tehran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)
1965 1st French satellite launched; France becomes 3rd nation in space
Deaths
8 BC Horace, Roman Republican poet (Odes), dies at 56
1852 Ada Lovelace, English mathematician considered the first computer programmer, dies of uterine cancer at 36
1934 "Baby Face" Nelson, [Lester Gillis], gangster, shot by FBI at 26
1975 Ross McWhirter, Guinness Book of Records keeper, murdered
1978 Harvey Milk, first openly gay person to be elected to public office, assassinated by Dan White at 48
1988 John Carradine, actor (Ten Commandments), dies of kidney failure at 82
2011 Gary Speed, Former Welsh international footballer and Wales national football team manager (b. 1969)
Born on this day
1951 Kathryn Bigelow, American director, producer and writer (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty), born in San Carlos, California
1955 Bill Nye, the Science Guy, TV Host
Ross McWhirter
Gary Speed
