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Events

1874 - A road for horse carriages joining Tokyo's Kyōbashi district and Shinbashi district is completed.
1905 - Japan's General Nogi Maresuke and Russia's General Anatoly Stoessel meet at Shǔishīgōng (水師営, Suishiei).
1919 - Matsuisu Mako, a Shingeki (western style drama) actress, commits suicide. It is believed that she committed suicide to be with Shimamura Hōgetsu, who died two months earlier. Shimamura was a literary figure who co-founded the Geijutsuza Club with Matsuisu for the purpose of introducing modern western style drama to Japan.
1955 - Cinerama opens in Tokyo and Osaka.
1974 - Japan and China sign a trade agreement.

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Film and television

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 '''Births'''
+*[[1941]] - [[Hayao Miyazaki]], animator, director, and screenwriter
+*[[1956]] - [[Chen Kenichi]], Japanese-Chinese chef
 *[[1971]] - [[Mayuko Takata]], actress
+*[[1976]] - [[Shintarō Asanuma]], voice actor and singer
+*[[1979]] - [[Masami Tanaka]], swimmer
+*[[1982]] - [[Norichika Aoki]], baseball player
+*[[1984]] - [[Nao Nagasawa]], actress, voice actress, and singer
 *[[1986]] - [[Teppei Koike]], actor and singer
+*[[1998]] - [[Marie Iitoyo]], model and actress
 '''Deaths'''
-*[[1919]] - [[Sumako Matsui]], actress and singer (b. 1886)
+*[[1919]] - [[Sumako Matsui]] (b. 1886), actress and singer
-*[[2007]] - [[Momofuku Ando]], inventor of [[instant noodles]] and [[cup noodles]] (b. 1910)
+*[[2007]] - [[Momofuku Ando]] (b. 1910), inventor of [[instant noodles]] and [[cup noodles]]
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+'''Film and television'''
+*[[2014]] - ''[[Gunshi Kanbei]]'' begins airing on [[NHK]].
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