Today in History for 5th September 2022

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Historical Events

1661 - Nicolas Fouquet, French Superintendent of Finances under Louis XIV is arrested for maladministration of state funds; he died in 1680, never seeing freedom again.
1915 - Tsar Nicholas II, distressed by increasing Russian losses, assumes personal command of his nation's military forces; clearly a symbolic act and devastating for his leadership
1958 - "The Huckleberry Hound Show" by Hanna-Barbera featuring Yogi Bear premieres on US TV
1986 - Hijacking of aircraft Pan Am 73 at Karachi airport, Pakistan, 20 passengers killed
2012 - 54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Nadu
2021 - Tour Championship, Men's Golf, East Lake GC, GA: Patrick Cantlay claims richest prize in golf ($15m) with 1 stroke win over Jon Rahm; runner-up Rahm pockets $5m

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Famous Birthdays

1319 - Peter IV, King of Aragon (1336-87), born in Perpignan, France (d. 1387)
1918 - Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor, born in Badajoz, Mexico (d. 1992)
1920 - Fons Rademakers, Dutch director (Assault) and actor (Daughter of Darkness), born in Roosendaal, Netherlands (d. 2007)
1926 - Carmen Petra-Basacopol, Romanian composer and educator Bucharest Conservatory (1962-2003), born in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania
1939 - Claudette Colvin, American civil rights activist who was arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus (nine months before Rosa Parks), born in Montgomery, Alabama, born in Montgomery, Alabama
1982 - Sondre Lerche, Norwegian musician, born in Bergen, Norway

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Famous Deaths

1808 - John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
1978 - Joe Negroni, American rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 37
1993 - Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60
2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
2003 - Moe Biller, American labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers), dies at 87
2021 - Ivan Patzaichin, Romanian canoeist (Olympic gold C-2 1000m 1968, 80, 84; C-1 1000m 1972; World C'ship gold x 8), dies from lung cancer at 71

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