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Thursday, July 2, 2009.

On this day in history ..

• 1787 - De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
• 1808 - Napoleon decreed that Jews must adopt family names
• 1858 - Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
• 1916 - Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism
• 1927 - Earthquake hits Palestine
• 1928 - British parliament accept female sufferage
• 1940 - Hitler orders invasion of England
• 1941 - Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)
• 1972 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 perfs

Famous birthdays for this day ..

• 0419 - Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55)
• 1888 - Selman Waksman, Russ/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)
• 1906 - Robert Levine Sanders, composer
• 1933 - David Benjamin Lewin, composer
• 1947 - Larry David, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Fridays)/writer (Seinfeld)
• 1975 - Daniel Kowalski, Singapore, Aust swimmer (Olympics-bronze/silver-96)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1566 - Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist, dies at 62
• 1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, dies at 88
• 1911 - Felix Mottl, composer, dies at 54
• 1917 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor/director (Hamlet), dies
• 1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, french colonel, dies
• 1939 - Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor of Rotterdam (1906-22), dies
• 1940 - Ben[jamin] Turpin, US comic (Saps at Sea, His New Job), dies