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2011 Event - According to the U.N. Population Division, the world population has reached seven billion people

2011 Event - In Game 5 of the American League Division Series, the Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees, moving on to play the Texas Rangers

1995 Event - Edgar Martinez drives home tying and winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees and win AL Division Series

1995 Event - Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees

1995 Event - Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners

1995 Event - Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title

1991 Death - Dudley McConnell, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies

1988 Event - Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record

1988 Event - New Jersey Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final

1985 Event - Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT)-Patrick Division Semifinals-Caps hold 1-0 lead

1981 Event - In 1st Eastern Division championship Yankees beat Brewers 5-3

1980 Death - Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division), commit suicide at 23

1978 Event - Cleveland, Houston, New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title

1977 Event - Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title

1976 Event - Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title

1976 Event - Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title

1975 Event - Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title

1974 Birthday - Tony Delk, born in Covington, Tennessee, professional basketball player, point guard, shooting guard, leader of University of Kentucky Wildcats team that won the 1996 NCAA Men's Division

1973 Birthday - Chris Woodruff, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, tennis star, 1993 NCAA Division I

1969 Event - Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title

1963 Event - CIA Domestic Operations Division created

1958 Event - U.S. Navy forms atomic sub division

1956 Birthday - Bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist, Joy Division

1954 Birthday - Sammy McIlroy, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, soccer player, athlete, played for Manchester United, manages Morecambe Football Club, in Football League Two, the fourth division of English football

1950 Event - U.S. infantry division conquerors Chonju, Korea

1950 Birthday - Stephen Chatman, born in Faribault, Minnesota, Canadian composer, received Fulbright grant for study at Hochschule fur Misik in Cologne, since 1976 has served as professor and Head of the Composition Division at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver

1948 Event - Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life

1945 Event - 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa

1945 Event - U.S. 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa

1945 Event - 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa

1945 Event - 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine

1945 Death - Thomas Rennie, General-Major (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies

1945 Event - U.S. 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar

1945 Event - British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine)

1945 Event - U.S. 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine

1945 Event - Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio

1945 Event - British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten

1945 Event - Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi

1945 Event - Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland

1945 Event - U.S. 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line

1945 Event - U.S. 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath

1945 Event - West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma

1945 Event - Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg

1945 Event - Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg

1944 Event - U.S. 2nd Inf division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid

1944 Event - U.S. 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall

1944 Event - U.S. 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald

1944 Event - U.S. 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar

1944 Event - U.S. 9th division and 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen

1944 Event - U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald

1944 Event - U.S. 28th Infantry division opens assault on Schmidt Hurtgenwald

1944 Event - 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda, Netherlands

1944 Event - Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland

1944 Event - U.S. 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne

1944 Event - Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem, Netherlands

1944 Event - U.S. 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall

1944 Event - U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid

1944 Event - U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid

1944 Event - U.S. 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall

1944 Event - 30th Infantry division of U.S. 1st Army frees Margraten

1944 Event - U.S. 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall

1944 Event - U.S. 5th pantzer division is 1st to enter nazi-Germany

1944 Event - British 2nd Armoured pantzer division frees Antwerp

1944 Event - Tank division of British Guards free Brussels

1944 Event - France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame

1944 Event - Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy

1944 Event - U.S. 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy

1944 Event - 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy

1944 Event - Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy

1944 Event - 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy

1944 Event - U.S. 7th Armour division reaches Chartres

1944 Event - French 5th Armour division recaptures Sees

1944 Event - U.S. 79th/90th division enter Le Mans

1944 Event - U.S. 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne

1944 Event - U.S. 90th division occupies St. Hilaire-du-Harcourt

1944 Event - U.S. 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy

1944 Event - U.S. 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches

1944 Event - Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy

1944 Event - U.S. 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein

1944 Event - 4th U.S. marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands

1944 Event - U.S. 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur

1943 Event - U.S. 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina

1943 Event - U.S. 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily

1943 Event - U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano

1943 Event - U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini

1943 Event - Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily

1943 Event - U.S. 45th Division occupies airport Comiso, Sicily

1943 Event - U.S. 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily

1943 Event - Hermann Goering division in Tunisia surrenders

1943 Event - U.S. 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia

1943 Event - U.S. 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia

1943 Event - U.S. 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia

1943 Event - U.S. 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia

1943 Event - U.S. 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia

1943 Event - German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow

1942 Event - Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division

1941 Event - 1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14

1941 Event - Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division

1940 Event - German 7th Armour division under General-Major Rommel occupies Cherbourg

1940 Event - German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen

1940 Event - German armour division moves into Northern France

1939 Event - General Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw

1939 Event - "Monty" becomes commandant of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division

1925 Event - League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied

1917 Event - 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st U.S. shot in WW I

1916 Event - British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey

1916 Event - French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun

1907 Event - Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division

1897 Event - Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division

1883 Birthday - Ernest E Just, biologist, pioneered cell division

1878 Event - Congress of Berlin discusses division of African colonization ends

1858 Birthday - Emile Durkheim, French sociologist, Division du travail social

1848 Event - In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed

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