Today in History for 14th August 2022

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Historical Events

1782 - Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies
1936 - Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States
1976 - 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
1994 - Terrorist "Carlos" arrested in Khartoum, Sudan
2016 - US Senior Open Men's Golf, Scioto CC: Gene Sauers wins by 1 stroke ahead of Miguel Ángel Jiménez and Billy Mayfair
2019 - Pakistan PM Imran Khan strongly criticizes India for revoking Kashmir's special status and putting it under lockdown in address in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir

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Famous Birthdays

1653 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (d. 1688)
1880 - Fred Alexander, American tennis player (Australasian C'ship 1908, 5-time US Indoor winner), born in Sea Bright, New Jersey (d. 1969)
1913 - Paul Dean, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), born in Lucas, Arkansas (d. 1981)
1928 - Lina Wertmüller [Arcangela Braueich], Italian screenwriter, film director, and 1st woman nominated for an Academy Award for Directing (Seven Beauties), born in Rome, Italy
1943 - Terry Ellis, British record producer, artist manager (Jethro Tull; Paula Cole: Baby Animals), and label executive (co-founder of Chrysalis Records) ,born in, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England
1973 - Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese game developer and composer, born in Johannesburg, South Africa

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Famous Deaths

1961 - Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68
1984 - Tigran Petrosian, Soviet Armenian World Chess Champion (1963-69), dies at 55
1992 - Flora Benson, American wife of Ezra Taft Benson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies at 91
2011 - Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor and director known as the "Elvis Presley of India" (Amaran, Brahmachari, Vidhaata), dies of chronic renal failure at 79
2012 - Ron Palillo, American actor (Arnold Horshack-Welcome Back Kotter), dies from a heart attack at 63
2013 - Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress, dies at 43

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