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1994 Death - Albert de Courtray, French archbishop of Lyon/cardinal, dies at 71

1993 Death - Alex Lyon, English Labor Lower house leader (1966-83), dies at 61

1991 Event - 80th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Lyon (3-1)

1991 Death - Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77

1987 Event - Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France

1983 Event - Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia

1979 Death - Ben Lyon, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78

1972 Birthday - Sandrine Testud, born in Lyon, France, tennis star, 1993 Strasbourg

1963 Birthday - Sophie Favier, Lyon France, actress, Sans Interdits

1948 Birthday - Southside Johnny Lyon, New Jersey, rocker, Asbury Jukes-Don't Want Go Home

1948 Event - William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as Prime Minister of Canada

1946 Birthday - Sue Lyon, born in Davenport, Iowa, actress, Lolita, Night of the Iguana

1944 Event - French troops liberate Lyon

1944 Event - Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz

1943 Death - William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

1936 Event - EW Brundin and FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants

1929 Birthday - Charles Lyon, General-Secretary, Transport Salaried Staffs Association

1921 Event - William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM

1913 Birthday - Klaus Barbie, gestapo chief, Lyon

1912 Birthday - Abbe Pierre, born in Lyon, France, French Catholic priest, founded Emmaus movement aiding poor, homeless, refugees

1904 Birthday - Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist, Nobel 1970

1901 Birthday - Ben Lyon, born in Atlanta, Georgia, actor, I Cover the Waterfront, Night Nurse

1874 Birthday - William Lyon Mackenzie King, L, 10th Canadian PM, 1921-30, 1935-48

1865 Event - SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire and sinks, killing 400

1865 Birthday - William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

1861 Death - William Lyon MacKenzie, Canadian Journalist

1861 Event - Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-General Lyon killed

1861 Death - Nathaniel Lyon, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43

1861 Event - Battle of Boonville, MI-Brigadier General Lyon defeats Confederate forces

1837 Event - Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada

1834 Event - Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor

1822 Event - Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)

1818 Birthday - Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1798 Event - Rep Matthew Lyon, Vermont spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold,Connecticut, in U.S. House of Representatives, after an argument

1797 Birthday - Mary Lyon, U.S., educator, Mount Holyoke, Hall of Fame

1795 Birthday - William Lyon MacKenzie, Canadian Journalist

1794 Death - James Lyon, composer, dies at 59

1735 Birthday - James Lyon, composer

1630 Death - Charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies

852 Death - Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76

840 Death - Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies

197 Event - Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon













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