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Location: Maryland
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1819 ~ Birthday of Clara Schumann, Pianist, Composer.
1857 ~ Birthday of Milton S. Hershey, chocolate entrepreneur and founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company.
1899 ~ Death of Henry Bliss, the first man in the U.S. to be killed in an automobile accident.
1948 ~ Margaret Chase Smith was elected senator, and became the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
1971 ~ Frank Robinson became the 11th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland.
1977 ~ Death of Leopold Stokowski, Conductor.
1982 ~ Lindy Chamberlain's "dingo baby trial" opened in Australia.
1979 ~ Birthday of Catalina Cruz, Porn Actress.
1993 ~ Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands on a peace deal.
2006 ~ Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others at Dawson College in Montreal.
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