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399
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St Siricius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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579
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Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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944
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Otto I the Great gives away bisdom Utrecht "foreestrecht"
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1527
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Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I
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1580
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French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty
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1598
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Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java
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1648
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Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westfalen
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1688
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Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg
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1688
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French king Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands
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1688
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King James II escapes back to London
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1702
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Premiere of Colley Cibber's "King Imposter"
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1703
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-27] Heavy storm hits England 1000s killed
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1703
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Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships
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1716
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1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
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1741
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French & Beiers army occupies Prague
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1764
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France bans Jesuit enorde
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1778
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Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands [now Hawaii])
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1789
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1st national Thanksgiving
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1793
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Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
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1825
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1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
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1832
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1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12« fare)
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1835
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HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ
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1841
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1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan
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1847
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Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice," premieres in Paris
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1861
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West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virg
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1863
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-Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA
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1864
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Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia
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1864
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Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal/Waynesboro, Georgia
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1865
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"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in US
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1867
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Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
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1868
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1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th & Folsom
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1885
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1st meteor photograph
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1894
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King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France
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1895
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Hawaiian Sugar Planters Assn forms
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1896
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1st large indoor football game, U of Chic beats U of Mich 7-6
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1896
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A A Stagg of U Chicago creates football huddle
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1898
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-27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die
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1898
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SS Portland leaves for Cape Cod, 157 killed
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1910
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2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers, 16-7
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1913
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Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
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1914
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Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die
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1916
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Greece declares war on Germany
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1922
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English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Toetanchamon's (Tut) tomb
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1924
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Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
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1925
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Neth & Germany sign trade agreement
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1927
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15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6
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1928
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Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily," premieres in Dresden
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1928
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Philip Barry's "Holiday," premieres in NYC
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1932
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Bradman completes 10000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings
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1933
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Camille Chautemps becomes French premier
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1934
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German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to nazi
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1934
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Turkish regiment decrees importing family names
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1939
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4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
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1940
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Leidse students strike
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1940
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Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
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1941
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Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro
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1941
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British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs
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1941
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British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda
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1941
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Japanese carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor
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1941
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Lebanon gains independence from France
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1942
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"Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC
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1942
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Anti fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
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1944
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1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor
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1944
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Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoriums
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1945
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During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)
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1948
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Belgian govt of Spaak, resigns
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1949
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37th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 28-15
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1949
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India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
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1950
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China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
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1952
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1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil," premieres in Hollywood
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1953
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KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
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1953
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WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
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1953
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Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening
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1954
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Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
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1955
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"Boy Friend" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 483 performances
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1955
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43rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-19
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1955
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Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus
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1955
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Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!"
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1956
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"The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
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1956
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USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it s
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1957
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WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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1960
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48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6
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1960
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Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
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1961
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For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
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1961
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Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball
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1962
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1st recording session under name "Beatles"
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1962
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Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
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1962
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Fab Four have their 1st recording session under name Beatles
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1963
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29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)
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1963
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Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of Year
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1963
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Explorer 18 launched
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1965
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Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year
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1965
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France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
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1966
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"Walking Happy" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 perfs
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1966
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1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
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1966
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54th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14
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1967
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Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
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1967
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Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450
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1968
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34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern Cal (RB)
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1969
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35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB)
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1969
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Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
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1969
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Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
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1972
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Pete Gogolak scores NY Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown
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1973
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Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18«-minute gap in a key Watergate
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1974
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Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal)
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1974
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Catfish Hunter & Charlie Finley meet in arbitration
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1974
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Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India
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1975
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Fed jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
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1975
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France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
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1975
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Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP
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1975
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US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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1976
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German DR deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship
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1976
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Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single
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1976
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Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK"
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1976
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Willy Burns elected chairman of Social International
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1978
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10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
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1978
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1st lesbian theme TV movie - "Question of Love"
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1978
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66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13
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1979
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Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
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1979
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Twins John Castino & Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year
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1980
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Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
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1980
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Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP
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1982
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Clyde King named Yankee manager
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1982
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Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
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1982
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Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
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1983
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Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
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1984
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After 518 goals & 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires
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1984
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John W Mercom Jr announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million
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1984
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Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain
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1984
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US & Iraq regain diplomatic relations
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1985
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23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
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1985
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France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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1985
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Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000
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1988
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Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev & Jean-Loup Chretien launch
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1988
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Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
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1989
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77th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40
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1989
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Comores coup under Bob Benard
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1989
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Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes pres of Uruguay
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1989
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Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
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1990
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1st Billboard Music Awards: Janet Jackson wins
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1990
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Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend
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1990
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Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
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1990
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Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
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1990
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Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns
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1990
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Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigned, ends his reign longest-serving PM
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1991
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Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
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1993
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Political campaigners James Carville (49) & Mary Matalin wed
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1995
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33rd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2)
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1995
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Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass
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1995
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Ireland votes (50.3%) to end 58 year ban on divorce
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1995
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New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI
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1996
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Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4
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1996
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Colbert, Floyd & Irwin win Wendy's Senior 3 Tour Golf Challenge
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1996
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Couples, Davies, Sheehan & Sorenstam win Wendy's Lady's 3 Tour Golf
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1996
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Couples, Love & Stewart win Wendy's Men's 3 Tour Golf Challenge
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1997
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Wash Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5
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BIRTHS
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1607
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John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ
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1640
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Carl Rosier, composer
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1653
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Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer
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1663
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Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas)
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1731
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William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) [NS]
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1736
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Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France)
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1744
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Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer
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1754
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Georg Forster, writer
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1792
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Sarah Moore Grimk, American abolitionist/women's rights advocate
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1795
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Carl P Fohr, German painter
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1795
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Cornelis P J Elout, Dutch military/resident of West Sumatra
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1809
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Mariano Obiols, composer
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1810
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William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British const (hydr crane)
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1816
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William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General (Confederate Army)
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1818
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Louis Lacombe, composer
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1823
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Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer
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1827
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Alfred Moore Scales, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
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1832
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Mary Edwards Walker, US, doctor/women's rights leader
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1850
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Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929)
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1857
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Ferdinand de Saussure, Switz, linguist (Cours de Laguistique Gener le)
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1862
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Mark A Stein, archaeologist
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1864
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Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem)
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1865
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Earl Ross Drake, composer
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1874
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Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French author (Ecoute Isral)
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1876
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Bart A van der Leck, Dutch painter (Style)
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1876
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Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment
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1883
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Milh ly Babits, Hungarian literary (Laodameia)
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1888
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Franz Jung, writer
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1892
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Joe Guyon, NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc)
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1894
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Norbert Wiener, US, mathematician/discovered cybernetics
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1895
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Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer (Milky Way system)
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1901
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Philippus J Idenburg, Dutch statistician
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1902
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Alberto Morin, PR, actor (Armando-Dallas)
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1902
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Gerrit Jan van der Veen, [Wolffensperger], Dutch resistance fighter
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1905
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George Emlyn Williams, Wales, actor/playwright (David Copperfield)
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1906
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Sandro Fuga, composer
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1907
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Frances Dee, LA Calif, actress (Of Human Bondage)
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1908
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Charles Forte, Italian/British hotel magnate (Savoy)
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1908
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Lefty Gomez, baseball pitcher
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1908
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Philipp Mohler, composer
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1909
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Eugene Ionesco, playwright
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1910
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Cyril Cusack, Durban Natal South Africa, actor (Day of the Jackal)
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1911
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Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs
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1911
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Ronald Diggens, English fabric manufacturer/multi-millionaire
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1911
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Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster/prodigy
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1912
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Eric Sevareid, Velva ND, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
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1912
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Eugene Ionesco, Slatina Romania, dramatist (Rhinoceros)
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1912
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Gunnar Johannes Sonstevold, composer
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1913
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Foy Draper, US, relay runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
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1913
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Joshua William Steward, polymath
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1915
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Earl Wild, Pitts Pa, composer/pianist (Caesar's Hour, NBC Symph 1942)
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1915
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Herbert Joeks, [Herbert J van Hugten], Dutch actor (Snip & Snap, Pipo)
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1915
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Ths Mauve, Dutch painter/wood engraver
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1916
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Bob Elliot, baseball player
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1916
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Mareo Ishiketa, composer
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1918
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Patricio Aylwin, president of Chile (1990-94)
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1919
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Frederik Pohl, US, sci-fi author (3 Hugo, Gateway, Bipohl)
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1920
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Istvan Sarkozy, composer
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1920
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Paul T B Rodenko, poet/author (Stolen Lover)
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1921
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Francoise Gilot, painter, designer, author living legacy award, 1984
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1922
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Adele Jergens, Brooklyn NY, actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man)
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1922
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Charles M Schulz, Minneapolis MN, cartoonist (Peanuts)
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1923
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Patricia Phoenix, County Galway Ireland, actress (L Shaped Room)
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1924
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George Segal, NY, sculptor lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver)
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1924
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Jasu Patel, cricketer (Indian off-spinner, 9-69 v Aust 1959)
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1925
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Eugene Istomin, NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award-1943)
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1925
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Linda Hunt, Morriston NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)
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1926
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Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner
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1926
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Mauro Bortolotti, composer
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1927
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John Carter, Center Ridge Ark, actor (Max-Falcon Crest)
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1929
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Betta St John, Hawthorne Calif, actress (Corridors of Blood)
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1929
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Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
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1931
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Adolfo Prez Esquivel, Buenos Argentina, (1980 Nobel Peace Prize)
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1931
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Adrianus J "Cardinal" Simonis, archbishop of Utrecht
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1931
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Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1952)
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1932
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Alan Stout, composer
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1932
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Marten Beinema, Dutch MP (CDA)
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1933
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Garrett "Garnet" Mimms, US singer (Enchanters-Cry Baby)
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1933
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Robert Goulet, Lawrence Mass, singer/actor (Camelot, Naked Gun 2«)
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1934
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Ludmila Shevtsova, USSR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
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1935
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Marian Mercer, Akron Ohio, actress/singer (Dean Martin Show)
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1936
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Margaret Boden, philosopher
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1937
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Boris Borisovich Yegorov, USSR, doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
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1937
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Garnett Mimms, rocker
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1937
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Lo Lacroix, France, skier (Olympic-silver-1964)
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1938
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Elizabeth E Bailey, university dean (Carnegie Mellon)
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1938
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Jeremy Boorda, admiral
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1938
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Porter J Goss, (Rep-R-Florida)
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1938
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Rich Little, Ottawa Canada, impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop)
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1938
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Tina Turner, [Anna Mae Bullock], Brownsville Tx, singer (Proud Mary)
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1941
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Jeff Torborg, baseball player
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1942
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Olivia Cole, Memphis Tenn, actress (Roots, Szysznyk)
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1943
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Gerald D Kleczka, (Rep-D-WI, 1984- )
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1943
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Jan Stenerud, Norway, NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs)
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1943
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Paul Burnett, English disc-jockey
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1944
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Alan Henderson, Belfast, rock bassist (Them)
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1944
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Jean Terrell, Texas, rocker (Supremes)
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1945
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Daniel Davis, Gurdun Ark, actor (Niles-Nanny)
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1945
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John McVie, British rock bassist (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk)
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1945
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Mikhail Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold/4 silver/bronze-1968)
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1945
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Tandy Cronyn, actress (Twisted, Guardian, Age Old Friends)
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1946
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Angus Suttie, English potter
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1946
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Bert Bouquet, bassist (Earth & Fire, Focus)
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1946
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Burt Reiter, rocker (Focus)
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1947
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Larry Gura, baseball player
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1947
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Richie Hebner, baseball player
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1948
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Galina Prozumenschikova, USSR, 200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1964)
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1949
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Maggie Donnelly, bag lady
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1950
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Jorge Orta, baseball player
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1951
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La Cicciolina, [Ilona Staller], Budapest Hungary, Italian MP
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1952
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Wendy Turnbell, Australia, tennis player (1979,82 US Opens Double)
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1953
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Louise Parks, LPGA golfer
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1955
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Bob Walk, baseball player
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1955
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Jay Howell, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
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1955
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Tracy [Raye] Hickman, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
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1956
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Nico Slothouwer, Dutch poet (Man & his Bag)
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1958
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Steve Buyer, (Rep-R-Indiana)
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1959
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Jamie Rose, NYC, actress (Susan Birch-St Elsewhere, Falcon Crest)
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1959
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Mike Moore, baseball player
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1960
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Harold Reynolds, baseball player
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1961
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Dave Hannan, Sudbury, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres, Colorado Avalanche)
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1961
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Marcy Walker, Paducah KY, actress (Liza-All My Child, Santa Barbara)
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1962
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Chuck Finley, Monroe LA, pitcher (California Angels)
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1962
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John Samuel Inman, Greensboro NC, PGA golfer (1993 Buick South Open)
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1962
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Mike Johnson, NFL inside linebacker (Detroit Lions)
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1963
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Allyson Rice-Taylor, Huntington WV, actress (As the World Turns)
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1963
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Mario Elie, NBA forward/guard (Houston Rockets)
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1964
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Al Smith, NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers)
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1964
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Jeff Jaeger, NFL kicker (Oakland Raiders, Chicago Bears)
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1964
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Vreni Schneider, Swiss alpine skier (Olympics-Gold-1988)
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1966
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Jay Berger, Fort Dix NJ, tennis star
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1966
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Sue Wicks, WNBA forward (NY Liberty)
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1967
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Karol Rusznyak, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
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1967
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Ridley Jacobs, cricket wicket-keeper (West Indian ODI 1996)
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1968
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Steve Lofton, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, NE Patriots)
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1969
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Sam Militello, baseball player
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1969
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Shawn Kemp, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers, Seattle Supersonics)
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1970
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Greg Graham, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
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1970
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John Amaechi, NBA center/forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
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1970
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Lorissa McComas, Columbus Ohio, actress (Lap Dancing, Vamp)
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1970
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Mark Dixon, CFL offensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
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1971
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Emma Robinson, Montreal Quebec, rower (Olympics-96)
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1971
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Vince Danielsen, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
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1972
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Nicole Beach, Phoenix AZ, model (Wonderbra)
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1973
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John Zimmerman, Birmingham Ala, pairs skater (& Steigler)
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1974
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David Barnard, WLAF defensive tackle (Scotland Claymores)
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1974
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Jamie Jones, singer (All 4 One)
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1974
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Richard Ikeda, Kamloops BC, gymnist (Olympics-96)
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1978
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Sarah Cahill, Miss Minnesota Teen USA (1996)
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1980
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Jessica Bowman, Walnut Creek Calif, actress (Colleen Cooper-Dr Quinn)
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1981
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Jamie Fiske, liver transplant recipient
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1992
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Louis Ducrut, prince/son of Princess Stephanie & Daniel Ducrut
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DEATHS
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399
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Siricius, Italian Pope (384-99), dies
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1126
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Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated
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1240
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Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/saint, dies
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1267
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Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies
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1504
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Isabella I, Catholic Queen of Castill & Aragon (1474-04), dies at 53
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1651
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Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40
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1653
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Maximilian Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 51
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1661
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Don Luis Mndez de Haro, premier of Spain (1643-61), dies at about 63
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1688
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Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53
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1776
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Dov Baer of Mezhirech, hassidic rabbi, dies
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1778
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Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68
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1809
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Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer, dies at 56
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1810
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Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer, dies at 65
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1821
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Friedrich Heine, composer, dies at 57
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1822
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Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer, dies at 53
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1854
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Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies
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1855
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Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56
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1857
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Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69
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1866
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Adrien Franois Servais, composer, dies at 59
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1866
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Carl Jonas Love Almquist, composer, dies at 72
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1880
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Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer, dies at 52
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1882
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Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier of Prussia, dies
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1883
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Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96
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1885
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Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71
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1918
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Charlie McLeod, cricketer (all-rounder for Australia 1894-1905), dies
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1923
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Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60
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1925
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Johannes Haarklou, composer, dies at 78
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1926
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John M Brown, US weapons constructer, dies
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1927
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Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47
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1928
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Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I), dies at 65
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1929
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Michele Esposito, composer, dies at 74
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1933
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Edward Julius Biedermann, composer, dies at 84
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1938
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Henry Schultz, US farm commune, dies
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1939
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James Naismith, Basketball inventor, dies
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1943
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Edward H "Butch" O'hare, US pilot/lt-comdr, dies in battle
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1950
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Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83
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1956
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Tommy Dorsey, big bandleader, dies at 51
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1957
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Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies
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1957
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Billy Bevan, actor (White Sin), dies at 70
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1959
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Albert William Ketelby, composer, dies at 84
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1961
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Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer, dies at 86
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1962
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Albert P Sarraut, Indo-China premier (1933, 36), dies at 90
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1963
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Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano, dies
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1965
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Wild Bill Elliott, cowboy actor (49'ers), dies of cancer at 60
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1966
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Harold Burrage, US singer/pianist (Got to Find a Way), dies at 35
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1966
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Siegfried Kracauer, writer, dies at 77
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1968
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Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81
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1970
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B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago
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1971
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Joe Adonis, US crime-syndicate boss in NY & NJ, dies at 68
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1973
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Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed in prison
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1973
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John Rostill, rocker, dies at 31
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1980
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Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53
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1981
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Machgielis "Max" Euwe, world chess champion (1935-37), dies at 80
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1982
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Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at 73
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1982
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Juhan Aavic, composer, dies at 98
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1982
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Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe), dies at 73
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1985
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Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of Bride), dies at 87
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1986
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Betico Croes, Arubian politician, dies in an accident at 48
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1986
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Scatman Crothers, singer/actor (Shining, Chico & The Man), dies at 76
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1987
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Emmanuel Bondeville, composer, dies at 89
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1987
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Thomas G Lanphier Jr, US WW II pilot, dies at 71
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1989
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Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores, dies
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1990
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David White, actor (Bewitched), dies of heart attack at 74
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1991
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Bob Johnson, US hockey coach (Pittsburgh Penguins), dies at 60
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1991
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Dehl Berti, actor (Bullies), dies of heart attack at 70
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1991
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Franois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Phila
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1992
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Stephen Burks, actor (Kiss of a Killer), dies at 36
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1993
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Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death
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1993
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Mart Kempers, sculptor, dies at 69
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1994
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Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71
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1994
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David Bache, designer, dies at 69
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1994
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Nimrod Workman, folksinger, dies at 99
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1995
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Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher, dies at 106
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1995
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David Briggs, record producer, dies at 51
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1995
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Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52
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1995
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Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner, dies at 79
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1995
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Terri Jewell, writer, dies at 40
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1996
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Euphemia MacDonald May Moxon, dance producer, dies at 91
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1996
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Hans Klein, politician, dies at 65
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1996
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Joan Hammond, singer, dies at 84
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1996
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Michael Bentine, Brit author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74
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1996
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Paul Rand, graphic designer, dies at 82
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1997
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Francis Paudras, designer/jazz fan, dies at 62
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