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955
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Alberich II, (bastard?) son of Octavianus elected pope
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1165
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Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
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1527
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Florence becomes a republic
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1532
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Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor
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1547
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Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg
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1568
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Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England
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1571
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Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
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1584
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7 Westfriese towns divide monasteries of Egmond/Blokker/St-Pietersdal
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1605
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Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V
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1606
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2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia
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1648
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Battle at Z¢lty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir
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1747
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Prince Willem V sworn in as admiral-general of Neth
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1763
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James Boswell's 1st meeting with Samuel Johnson
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1763
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Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
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1770
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Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France
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1792
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Denmark abolishes slave trade
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1795
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Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state
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1796
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Lombardije Republic forms
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1803
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Peace of Amiens ends
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1804
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Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France
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1811
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Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera
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1817
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Mississippi River steamboat service begins
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1860
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-18] Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln candidate
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1861
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Confederate govt offers war volunteers $10 premium
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1861
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Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
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1862
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Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile
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1863
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Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign
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1864
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Atlanta Campaign-battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13)
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1864
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Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA
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1864
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Last battles at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties)
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1866
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Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer
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1866
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Congress authorizes nickel 5 piece (replaces silver half-dime)
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1866
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US Treasury Dept authorizes nickel
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1868
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Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor," premieres in Prague
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1868
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By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson
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1869
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Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
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1872
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Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
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1874
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1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg Mass)
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1875
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Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
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1879
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Antonin Dvor k's "Slavic Dancing," premieres
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1879
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Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English
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1881
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World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
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1882
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8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40¬
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1884
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10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40¬
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1888
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CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
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1891
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George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam
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1894
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Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
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1901
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Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School" (BG)
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1902
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2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3
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1903
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1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann)
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1903
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George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
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1910
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US Bureau of Mines forms
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1911
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Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK
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1911
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Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf
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1914
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American Horseshoe Pitchers Assn organizes in Kansas City
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1914
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Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
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1916
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41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8
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1920
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Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized a saint
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1920
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Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull
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1921
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47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2
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1922
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White Star Line Majestic completes 5« day maiden voyage
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1924
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108øF (42øC) in Blitzen Oregon
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1925
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51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6
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1927
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NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
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1927
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Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax
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1929
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1st Academy Awards - "Wings," Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins
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1930
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6th Walker Cup: US, 10-2
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1931
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57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins 2:01.8
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1932
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Yanks 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland & Boston
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1933
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Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game
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1936
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1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
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1936
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62nd Preakness: George Woolf aboard Bold Venture wins in 1:59
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1938
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1st animal breeding society forms (NJ)
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1938
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38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga)
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1938
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In cricket Bradman scores 278 Aust v MCC, 349 mins, 35 fours 1 six
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1939
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1st AL night game, Phila Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
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1939
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Food stamps are 1st issued
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1940
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Nazi's forbid non-professional auto workers
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1940
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Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
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1941
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1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
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1941
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Germans made their last major air attack on Britain
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1941
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Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia
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1941
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Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
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1941
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Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)
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1942
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1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
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1943
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-17th] RAF bombs Mhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)
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1943
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German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw
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1943
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Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
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1944
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1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
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1944
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Milt police attack gypsies
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1945
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Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa
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1946
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Musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC
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1948
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Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion
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1948
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CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece
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1948
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Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel
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1948
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Egyptians enter the Gaza
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1948
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George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found
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1948
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Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
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1952
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"New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances
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1953
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Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
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1954
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Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open
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1954
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Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone
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1954
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WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast
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1955
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Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in SF
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1955
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King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo
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1955
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Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown
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1955
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Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
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1956
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Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China
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1956
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Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia
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1956
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Kraft Theater presents an act from "Profiles in Courage"
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1956
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Laker takes 10-88 for Surrey v Australians at the Oval
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1957
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Maj Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH
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1957
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Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae
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1957
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US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton Conn
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1957
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Yanks involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade
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1958
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Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mex
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1958
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Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
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1959
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85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57
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1959
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WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
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1960
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Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
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1961
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13rd Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr & Barbara Stanwyck
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1963
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"Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances
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1963
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Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Proj Mercury
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1964
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90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8
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1964
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USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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1964
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Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
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1965
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"Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 perfs
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1965
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Balt Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers
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1965
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Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam
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1965
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Spaghetti-O's 1st sold
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1965
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Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
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1965
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WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, NY (TEL) begins broadcasting
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1966
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Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released
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1966
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National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
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1966
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Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
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1967
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Phila voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium
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1968
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Earthquake kills 47 in Japan
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1969
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Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute
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1969
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Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam
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1969
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US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off SF
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1969
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USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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1969
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Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
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1969
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Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault
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1970
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96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2
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1970
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Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70
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1971
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1st class postage now costs 8 (was 6)
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1971
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Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave," premieres in Aldwych
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1971
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Bulgaria adopts it's constitution
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1972
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"Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 164 perfs
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1972
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Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Phila Vet
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1972
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Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale
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1973
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ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar
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1973
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AC Milan wins 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki
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1974
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Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor
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1974
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USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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1975
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India annexes Principality of Sikkim
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1975
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Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
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1975
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Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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1975
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Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
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1976
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Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Phila Flyers in 4 games
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1976
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Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
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1977
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5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am bldg in NYC
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1977
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Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavywgt boxing title
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1979
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FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel
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1979
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NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M
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1980
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34th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2
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1980
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Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
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1980
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Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman in Yes
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1980
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Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album
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1981
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"Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks
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1981
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107th Preakness: Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6
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1981
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Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1
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1981
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Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson
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1982
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"Barnum" closes at St James Theater NYC after 854 performances
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1982
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"Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 perfs
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1982
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Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation for STS-4
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1982
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Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
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1982
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Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep
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1982
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Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Vancouver Canucks in 4 games
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1983
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Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel
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1984
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Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution
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1984
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Juventus wins 24th Europe Cup II in Basel
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1984
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Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minn Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the gam
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1984
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Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
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1984
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US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
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1985
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Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
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1985
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Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium
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1986
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"Top Gun," premieres
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1986
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Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas
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1986
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Joaqu¡n Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election
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1986
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South African Pres P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela
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1987
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"Bobro 400," a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping sit
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1987
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"Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial NYC after 608 perfs
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1987
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113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8
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1987
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Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in LA
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1987
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Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show
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1988
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Surgeon Gen C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
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1988
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US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
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1989
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Soviet president Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing
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1990
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Dominican Republic President Joaqu¡n Ricardo Balaguer re-elected
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1990
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Juventus wins 19th UEFA Cup in Avellino
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1991
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Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
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1991
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Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress
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1992
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"Smells Like Nirvana," by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35
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1992
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118th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6
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1992
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Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock
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1992
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US space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
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1993
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"3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances
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1993
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"Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 30 perfs
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1993
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Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull
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1993
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Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head
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1993
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Laura Davies wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
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1993
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Sleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey
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1994
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Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando FL on WTKS 104.1 FM
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1994
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Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment
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1994
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Joaqu¡n Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic
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1994
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Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana
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1995
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Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier
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1996
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Sammy Sosa is 1st Chic Cub to hit 2 HRS in 1 inning
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1997
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Atlanta Braves beat St Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings
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1997
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Brandi Sherwood, (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Univ) as Miss USA
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1997
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Brook Mehealani Lee, 26, of US crowned 46th Miss Universe
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1997
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Expos trailing SF Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13
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1997
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St Louis Cards Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits
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1998
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124th Preakness
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1999
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125th Preakness
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BIRTHS
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1558
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Andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600)
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1609
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Ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands
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1641
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Dudley North, financier/economist
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1659
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Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist
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1718
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Maria G Agnesi, Italy mathematician curves= xýy=aý(a-y)
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1748
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Antonius van Alphen, apostolic vicar of De Bosch
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1761
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John Opie, artist
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1763
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Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)
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1782
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John Sell Cotman, water color artist
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1788
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F Rckert, writer
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1788
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Friedrich Rckert, poet
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1801
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William Henry Seward, Sec of State (1861-69, buys Alaska at 2/acre)
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1804
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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten)
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1806
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George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
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1816
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Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1886
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1819
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Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898
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1822
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Eduard Hille, Dutch composer/conductor
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1824
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Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
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1824
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Levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93)
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1827
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Petrus J H Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station)
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1831
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David Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter)
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1832
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Philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods)
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1845
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Dietrich Schfer, German historian (Deutsche Hanse)
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1850
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Arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer
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1857
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Juan Morel Campos, composer
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1858
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Frank Lynes, composer
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1858
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Hanus Trnecek, composer
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1866
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Ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)
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1878
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Taylor Holmes, Newark NJ, actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely)
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1880
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Julian Tannen, NY, comedian (Great Moment)
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1887
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Bull Montana, Vogliera Italy, actor (Brass Buttons, Victory)
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1887
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J van Hoddis, writer
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1889
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Joan Collette, Dutch (male) painter (New Church, Delft)
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1892
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Coenraad B van Haeringen, linguist/etymologist (Dutch Dictionary)
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1892
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Richard Tauber, [Ernst Seiffert], Austria/British, tenor/conductor
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1893
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Jos Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30)
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1893
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Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer
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1897
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Walther Geiser, composer
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1898
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August de Schrijver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP)
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1902
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Jan Kiepura, Sosnowiec Poland, vocalist/actor (Her Wonderful Lie)
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1904
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Hugh Plaxton, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1928)
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1904
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Lily Pons, opera singer/actress (That Girl From Paris)
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1905
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Henry Fonda, Grand Is Nebraska, actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond)
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1905
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H[erbert] E[rnest] Bates, novelist (Feast for July, Love for Lydia)
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1906
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Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuela, writer/minister (Lanzas Coloradas)
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1906
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Ernie McCormick, cricketer (Australian quickie of late 30's)
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1906
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Nicholas Beriozoff, ballet master
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1907
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Robert Tisdall, Ireland, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1932)
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1908
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Hilary Preston, editor
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1908
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Mohammed Roem, Indonesian foreign minister (Linggadjati)
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1909
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Charles Wislon, principal (Glasgow University)
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1911
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Margaret Sullavan, Norfolk Va, actress (Back Street)
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1911
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Olaff J de Landell, [JB Wemmerslager van Sparwoude], writer
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1912
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Studs Terkel, NYC, author/host (Stud's Place, Working)
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1913
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Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds)
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1916
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Adriana Caselotti, cartoon voice
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1916
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Bernard Braden, broadcaster/actor (All Night Lone, Full Treatment)
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1916
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Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist/president (Israel)
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1916
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Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro, doctor/social reformer
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1917
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George Gaynes, Helsinki Finland, actor (Henry-Punky Brewster)
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1917
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Geraint Jones, conductor/organist
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1918
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Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert
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1918
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Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (Pedro P ramo)
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1918
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Kevin Skelton, Bishop (Lichfield)
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1919
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Liberace, West Allis WI, pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman)
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1919
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Richard Mason, author
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1919
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[Wladziu Valentino] Liberace, West Allis Wisconsin, pianist
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1920
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Martine Carol, [Maryse Mopurer], Saint-Mande France, actress (Nana)
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1921
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Harry Carey Jr, Saugus Calif, actor (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
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1921
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Robert Croften Brown, politician
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1922
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Colin Cole, Principal King of Arms
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1922
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Russell Wood, treasurer (Queen Elizabeth)
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1924
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Dawda Kairaba Jawara, president (Gambia, 1970-94)
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1924
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Frank F Mankiewicz, NYC, columnist (Perfectly Clear)
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1926
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Jan Zimmer, composer
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1927
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John Walford, solicitor
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1928
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Billy Martin, baseball 2nd baseman/manager (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
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1928
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Reginald Askew, dean (King's College London)
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1929
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Adrienne Cecile Rich, Balt Md, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters)
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1929
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John Conyers Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1965- )
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1929
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Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer
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1930
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Desmond Langley, gov (Bermuda)
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1930
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Don Conicannon, govt minister
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1930
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Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist/composer (Hangman's Songs)
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1931
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Donald James Martino, Plainfield NJ, composer (Noturnno-Pulitzer 1974)
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1931
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Jack Dodson, Pitts Pa, actor (Howard Sprage-Andy Griffith Show)
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1931
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Lowell P Weicker, (Sen-R-CT, 1971-88/Gov-D-CT)
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1931
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Peter Levi, poet/writer
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1932
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Isaac "Redd" Holt, US drummer (Young-Holt Unlimited-In Crowd)
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1934
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Anthony Walker, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
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1934
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Nicholas Goodison, CEO (TSB Group)
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1936
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Philippe de Montebello, Paris, art exhibitionist (Treasures of Tut)
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1936
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Roy Hudd, comedian (Blood Beast Terror, Vampire Beast Craves Blood)
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1937
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James Hunt Jr, (Gov-NC)
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1937
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Yvonne Craig, Taylorville Ill, actress (Batgirl-Batman, Kissin Cousin)
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1938
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Anthony Walker, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
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1938
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Stuart Bell, MP
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1940
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Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (1900, Last Emperor)
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1940
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Gareth Roberts, chancellor (Sheffield University)
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1941
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John McWilliams, MP
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1941
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Maurice Henry Weddington, composer
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1943
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Dan Coats, (Rep-R-IN, 1981- )
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1943
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Jon Jost, director (All the Vermeers in NY)
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1944
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Billy Cobham, Panam , jazz artist (Same Ole Love)
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1945
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Brewster H Shaw Jr, Mich, Col USAF/astro (STS-9, STS 61B, STS-28)
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1945
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James Moran, (Rep-D-Virginia)
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1945
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Nicky Chinn, English songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman)
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1946
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Jessi B Wilson, Mississippi, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
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1946
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Roger Earl, rocker (Foghat)
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1947
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Barbara Lee, US singer (Chiffons, He's So Fine)
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1947
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Bill Smitrovich, actor (Crime Story, Miami Vice)
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1947
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Rosie Barnes, MP
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1949
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Jimmy Hood, MP
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1949
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Rick Reuschel, pitcher (NY Yankees)
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1949
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William Sputnik Spooner, rock guitarist (Grateful Dead, Tubes)
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1950
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Jock Bartley, rocker (Firefall)
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1950
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Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
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1951
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Jonathan Richman, rocker (Modern Lovers-New England, Egyptian Reggae)
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1952
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Pierce Brosnan, County Meath Ire, actor (Remington Steele, Golden Eye)
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1953
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David Maclean, British minister of state
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1953
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Richard Page, LA Calif, rocker (Mr Mister)
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1953
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Rick Rhoden, pitcher (NY Yankees)
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1954
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Janet Maw, actress (Sparrow, King John, Mayor of Casterbridge)
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1954
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[Dafydd] Rhys Williams, Saskatoon Canada, MD/astronaut (sk: STS 90)
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1955
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Debra Winger, Columbus Oh, actress (Officer & Gentleman)
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1955
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Hazel O'Connor, Coventry England, singer/actress (Breaking Glass)
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1955
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Jack Morris, St Paul Minn, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
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1955
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Olga Korbut, Grodno Belorussia, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1972)
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1957
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Joan Benoit Samuelson, Cape Elizabeth ME, marathoner (Oly-gold-1984)
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1958
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Glenn Gregory, rock vocalist (Heeaven 17-Electric Dreams)
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1959
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Bob Patterson, Jacksonville FL, pitcher (Chic Cubs)
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1959
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Mare Winningham, Phoenix Az, actress (St Elmo's Fire, Turner & Hooch)
|
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1959
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Ty Armstrong, Waxahachie TX, Nike golfer (1993 Anheuser-Busch-19th)
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1960
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Anne Parillaud, Paris France, actress (Subway, Nikita, Innocent Blood)
|
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1961
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Nina Arvesen, White Plains NY, actress (Cassandra-Young & Restless)
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1962
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Gary Crocker, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman)
|
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1963
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Jimmy Osmond, rocker (Osmond Brothers)
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1964
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John Salley, NBA star (Detroit Pistons)
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1965
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Brent Jasmer, Portland Oregon, actor (Sly-Bold & Beautiful)
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1965
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Lori Sippel, Stratford Ontario, softball pitcher (Olympics-96)
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1966
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Janet Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer, Michael's sister (Control)
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1966
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Scott Reeves, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Ryan-Young & Restless)
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1966
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Sean Quilty, Australian marathoner (Olympics-96)
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1966
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Thurman Thomas, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
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1968
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Ralph Tresvant, Boston, singer (New Editon)
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1969
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Marcel Schewe, cricketer (Holland wicket-keeper 1996 World Cup)
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1969
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Steven Earl Lewis, LA Calif, 4X100/400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
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1969
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Tracey Gold, NYC, actress (Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday)
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1969
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Tricia Cast, actress (Nina-Young & Restless)
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1970
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Eric Lynch, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
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1970
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Gabriela Sabatini, Argentina, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988)
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1971
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Khari Jones, CFL/WLAF quarterback (BC Lions, Scottish Claymores)
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1972
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Keith Burns, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
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1972
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Matthew Hart, cricketer (NZ lefty spinner 1994- )
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1974
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Conal Groom, Northford Conn, rower (Olympics-1996)
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1974
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Keith Thibodeaux, cornerback (Washington Redskins)
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1978
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Vincent Larusso, Livingston, NJ, actor (Adam-Mighty Ducks, D2, D3)
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1979
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Evan Ferrante, actor (Owen-Swan's Crossing)
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1981
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Jessica Ponzo, Miss New Jersey Teen USA (1996)
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DEATHS
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942
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Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies
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1434
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Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60
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1669
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Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies
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1669
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Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42
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1691
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Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason
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1703
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Charles Perrault, author/fairy tale writer, dies
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1754
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Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer, dies at 76
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1762
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Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer, dies at 86
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1768
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Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81
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1777
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Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
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1782
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Daniuel Charles Solander, botanist, dies
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1805
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Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68
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1819
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Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75
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1829
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William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56
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1830
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Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies
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1835
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Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies
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1847
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Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59
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1862
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Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40
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1863
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Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 47
|
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1864
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Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered
|
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1880
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Karl August Krebs, composer, dies at 76
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1892
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John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies
|
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1892
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Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 74
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1903
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Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72
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1904
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N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies
|
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1910
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Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53
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1918
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Eusapia Palladino, Napolitan, dies at 64
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1926
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Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies
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1928
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Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies
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1929
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Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies
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1932
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Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered
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1932
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William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies
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1938
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Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach, dies
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1942
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Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies
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1944
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George Ade, US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78
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1944
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Leone Sinigaglia, composer, dies at 75
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1944
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Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies
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1949
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William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies
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1952
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Alec Hearne, cricketer (scored 9 in Test for Eng v S Afr 1892), dies
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1954
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Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61
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1954
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Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38
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1955
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James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY
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1958
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Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49
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1959
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Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69
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1966
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Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home
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1969
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Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44
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1972
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Maxime Dumoulin, composer, dies at 79
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1973
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A P Gtersloh, writer, dies at 86
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1975
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Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder
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1979
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Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
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1983
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Carel Brons, composer, dies at 52
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1984
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Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies of cancer at 35
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1984
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Irwin Shaw, US writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at 71
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1985
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Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz), dies at 82
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1988
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Carrie Baxter, Best Bodybuilder (1983-85), dies in car crash at 42
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1988
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Kay Baxter, Best Bodybuilder in the World (1983-85), dies at 42
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1988
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Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78
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1989
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Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered
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1990
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Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian
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1990
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Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53
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1990
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Sammy Davis Jr, singer/actor (Golden Boy), dies at 64
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1991
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Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies
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1992
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Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53
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1993
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Marv Johnson, US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54
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1994
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Alain Cuny, actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel), dies
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1994
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Barbara Jean Jones, fictional character on General Hospital, dies at 7
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1994
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Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82
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1994
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Vasek Simek, Czech/US actor (Green Card, Mistress), dies at 66
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1995
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Lola Flores, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70
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1995
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Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian, dies at 82
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1996
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Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60
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1996
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Mike Jeremy Boorda, commandant (NATO), commits suicide at 57
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1996
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Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72
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