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Facts
1534 Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad
1619 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish, England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God. Considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas.
1791 Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, first published
1829 Britain outlaws "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
1923 Cecil B. DeMille's first version of "The Ten Commandments" premieres
Deaths
765 Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702)
1214 William I "the Lion", King of Scotland (1165-1214)
1514 Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide(?)
1679 Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (Leviathan), dies of a stroke at 91
1828 Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Tory: 1812-27), dies of a stroke at 58
1902 Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones), dies at 51
1915 Gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60
1975 Hannah Arendt, German/US political theorist and historian, dies at 69
1976 Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63
1993 Frank V Zappa, US music/composer (Mothers of Invention), dies at 52
2016 Margaret Whitton, American actress (Good & Evil, Major League), dies of cancer at 67
Born on this day
1969 Jay-Z [Shawn Carter], American rapper and record producer (Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint), born in Brooklyn, New York City
1973 Tyra Banks, American supermodel and actress (Higher Learning, Fresh Prince of Bel Air), born in Inglewood, California
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
Charles Dow
Frank V Zappa
