1933 - FDR announces US will leave gold standard
1941 - Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia
1943 - Bicycle Day - Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time
1966 - In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chic
1987 - Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed rec (124.902 mph)
1999 - 103rd Boston Marathon: Joseph Chebet of Kenya takes men's title in 2:09:52; 3-peat for Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia in women's race in 2:23:25

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1939 - Ellen Weston, American actress (Betty-SWAT), born in New York City
1944 - James Heckman, American economist (Nobel Prize 2000), born in Chicago, Illinois
1953 - Sara Simeoni, Italian high jumper (Olympic gold 1980), born in Rivoli Veronese, Italy
1962 - Al Unser Jr., American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1992, 94), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
1978 - James Franco, American actor (The Disaster Artist), born in Palo Alto, California
1987 - Courtland Mead, American actor (Dragonworld), born in Mission Viejo, California

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1529 - John Cuspinianus [Spiessheimer], German physician, dies at about 55
1906 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player (1st Wimbledon singles champion 1877), dies at 56
1945 - J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed
1956 - Ernst Robert Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70
1975 - Percy Lavon Julian, African American chemist who received 130 patents, pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants, dies at 76
2005 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (Another Thin Man), dies at 93

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