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interesting.
As for Brans meme thing:
Events:
1861 - American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
1959 - Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.
1982 - Channel 4 in the United Kingdom was launched.
Births:
1699 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
1974 - Nelly, American rapper (St. Lunatics)
Death:
1950 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)