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Art and culture
- 1903 - Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
- 1938 - The American government files suit against the motion picture industry charging violations of anti-trust law. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the Hollywood studio system in 1948.
- 1954 - potlatch #5, bulletin of the french section of the lettrist international published
- 1969 - Space Age, first man walks the moon
- 1989 - Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it.
- 1999 - Rules For the Human Zoo speech delivered by Peter Sloterdijk
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Births
- 356 BC - Alexander the Great, Greek king and military leader (d. 323 BC)
- 1304 - Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)
- 1890 - Theda Bara, American actress (d. 1955)
- 1895 - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
- 1925 - Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (d. 1961)
- 1932 - Nam June Paik, Korean-born artist (d. 2006)
- 1933 - Cormac McCarthy, American author (d. 2023)
- 1938 - Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist
- 1954 - Larry Levan, American DJ (d. 1992)
- 1969 - Russ Kick, American writer, editor and publisher (d. 2021)
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Deaths
- 1912 – Andrew Lang, Scottish bibliophile (b. 1844)
- 1923 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
- 1945 - Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
- 1942 - Germaine Dulac, French film director and early film theorist. (b. 1882 )
- 1973 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
- 1973 – Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938)
- 1994 - Paul Delvaux, Belgian surrealist painter (b. 1897)
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