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|text=*1864 – The American Civil War] Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, a plan to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia, fails.

• 1904 – Jazz clarinetist and Big Band leader Jimmy Dorsey is born.
• 1920 – Two-time Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner Howard Nemerov is born.
• 1940 – For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel (pictured) becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
• 1972 – Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the history of Major League Baseball to sign a $200,000 contract.

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