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Facts
526 Antioch, modern day Syria, struck by an earthquake, killing about 250,000
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester & occupies Carlisle
1877 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time
1935 Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment 'Schrödinger's cat', a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
1951 1st underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada
Deaths
561 Chlotarius I, king of the France (558-61), dies at about 61
1843 Marco Santucci, composer, dies at 81
1924 Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (Mme Butterfly), dies in Brussels at 65
1981 Natalie Wood, American actress (West Side Story), drowns at 43
1987 Irene Handl, actress (Riding High, Morgan), dies at 85
1994 Ronald "Buster" Edwards, British Great Train Robber turned flower-seller, founded hanged at 63
2001 George Harrison, English pop star and Beatle (Traveling Wilburys-My Sweet Lord), dies of lung cancer at 58
2010 Mario Monicelli, Italian film director (b. 1915)
Born on this day
1960 Cathy Moriarty, American actress (Raging Bull, Bless This House), born in The Bronx, New York
1973 Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
Natalie Wood
Irene Handl