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1934 - Birth of Shirley Scott; swing/blues organist (with Stanley Turrentine).

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1936 - Birth of Bob Charles in Carterton, New Zealand; PGA golfer (1963 Houston Open).

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1936 - Federal Register, first magazine of the US government, publishes first issue.

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1936 - In Red Bank, New Jersey, USA, a meteorite crashes through a shed roof.

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1937 - Birth of Peter van der Merwe; cricket player (South African captain of mid-1960s).

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1937 - Pope Pius XI publishes anti-Nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge.

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1938 - Birth of Johnny Gleeson; cricket player (mystery spinner for Australia 1966-72).

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1939 - Birth of Bertrand Blier in Paris, France; novelist/director (Going Places).

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1939 - Birth of William Benjamin Lenoir in Miami, Florida, USA; astronaut (STS-5).

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1939 - England draw with South Africa in cricket at Durban on the 10th day.

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