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Today in HistoryThis day in history:
- 1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
- 1970 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
- 1213 – Queen consort Gertrude of Merania is assassinated by a group of Hungarian lords.
- 1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
Births:
- 1962 – Grant Fuhr, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1867 – Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
- 1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (d. 1996)
Deaths:
- 1918 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
- 2013 – James Emanuel, American-French poet and scholar (b. 1921)
- 1994 – Harry Saltzman, Canadian production manager and producer (b. 1915)
Holidays:
- Czech Statehood Day (Czech Republic)
- Teachers' Day (Taiwan and Chinese-Filipino schools in the Philippines), ceremonies dedicated to Confucius are also observed.
- International Day for Universal Access to Information
Random Article of the day:
The committees of correspondence were a collection of American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to British Parliament and, later, support for American independence during the American Revolution. The brainchild of Samuel Adams, a Patriot from Boston, the committees sought to establish, through the writing of letters, an underground network of communication among Patriot leaders in the Thirteen Colonies. The committees were instrumental in setting up the First Continental Congress, which convened in Philadelphia in September and October 1774.
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