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1194
Most of Chartres, France is destroyed by fire.

1910

Blues giant Howlin’ Wolf born near Aberdeen, Mississippi.

1915
Nobel-Prize winning author Saul Bellow (Herzog) born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada.

1922
Actress and singer, Judy Garland (Wizard of Oz) born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

1925
American historian, author, and journalist, Nat Hentoffborn in Boston, Massachusetts.

1928
Illustrator Maurice Sendak born in Brooklyn, New York.

1978
Affirmed wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the eleventh horse to win the Triple Crown.