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Friday, July 3, 2009.

On this day in history ..

• 1187 - Crusaders enter Tiberias
• 1848 - Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
• 1940 - German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names
• 1942 - Germany troop march into Sebastopol
• 1976 - Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers

Famous birthdays for this day ..

• 1802 - Joseph Labitzky, composer
• 1862 - Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer
• 1878 - George M Cohan, actor/singer (Phantom Pres, Give My Regards to Bdwy)
• 1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika)
• 1883 - Moses Leverock Crossley, US bio-chemist
• 1904 - Death of Theodor Herzl
• 1957 - Faye Resnick, author (Nicole Brown Simpson-Private Diary)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist/Zionist, dies
• 1992 - Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66