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1315
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Battle at Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I (II?) of Austrian
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1316
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Jan I becomes king of France, dies 4 days later
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1348
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Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
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1491
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6 Jews & 5 Conversos accused of killing Christians in La Guardia Spain
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1491
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Anna van Bretagne becomes devoted to end "la guerre folle"
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1492
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Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
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1492
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In Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic
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1527
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Treaty of Beautiful garden (emperor-ecclesiastical goods)
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1532
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Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn
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1533
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Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco
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1577
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Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington
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1583
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Gelders Earl Willem of the Bergh flees
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1660
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1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)
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1679
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English house of Commons accept Exclusion Bill
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1688
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Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay England
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1715
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Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands
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1727
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NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath
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1763
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Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland
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1777
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Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress
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1791
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1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens
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1806
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1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Govt, publishes 1st issue
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1806
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Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado)
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1813
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Allied troops occupies Groningen
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1813
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Tax revolt in Amsterdam
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1824
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Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)
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1826
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Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura
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1827
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Creek-indians lose all their property in US
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1832
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Felix Mendelssohn's "Reformation," premieres
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1835
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HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti
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1837
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Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system
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1845
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Opera "Maritana" is produced (London)
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1849
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1st US poultry show opens in Boston
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1864
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1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY
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1864
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Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta
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1869
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Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
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1870
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Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union
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1881
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American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
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1882
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British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger
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1884
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Colonization of Africa orgainized at Intl conference in Berlin
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1887
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British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
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1889
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Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed
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1899
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Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill & wife captured in Natal
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1901
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Heavyweight James J Jeffries KOs Gus Ruhlin in SF
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1901
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James J Jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
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1902
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Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist
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1903
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Eugen d'Alberts opera "Tiefland," premieres in Prague
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1904
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King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade
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1911
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Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 & $10 gold coins
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1914
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Ital socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia
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1919
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Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
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1920
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Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen," premieres in Neurenberg
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1920
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Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection
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1920
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League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
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1921
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KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
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1922
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British Conservative wins election/Labour 2nd party
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1924
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Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
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1926
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1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
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1926
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AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC)
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1932
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Walt Disney Art School created
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1934
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Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium)
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1935
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Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated
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1936
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Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
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1937
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1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
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1938
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1st telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, NY
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1938
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Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona
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1939
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Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
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1939
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FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
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1939
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Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
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1939
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Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
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1940
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1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
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1940
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1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington & AC Seagulls
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1940
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NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
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1941
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Cow Palace opens in San Francisco
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1941
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Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier
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1944
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Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank
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1945
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The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of
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1946
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Joseph McCarthy's HUAC interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley
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1946
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Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP
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1947
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Bradman scores his 100th 100, 172 v Indians at the SCG
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1947
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Soccer team GVVV forms in Veenendaal
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1948
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William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM of Canada
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1949
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KRON TV channel 4 in San Francisco, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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1949
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WSAZ TV channel 3 in Huntington-Charleston, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
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1950
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1st Negro player in organized hockey-Arthur Dorrington signed
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1950
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Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey (Atl City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League
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1951
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Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad, Pak XI v MCC, Lahore
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1951
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NY Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year
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1953
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WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
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1953
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WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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1954
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1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
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1955
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Poland & Yugoslavia sign trade agreement
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1956
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"Li'l Abner" opens at St James Theater NYC for 693 performances
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1956
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Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in NYC
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1957
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US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
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1959
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Cleve Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Wash 31-17
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1959
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Robert White & Perry Smith kill Clutters
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1960
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Elgin Baylor of NBA LA Lakers scores 71 points vs NY Knicks
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1960
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USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
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1961
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Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
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1961
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Roger Maris is voted AL MVP
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1961
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UN bans nuclear arms
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1962
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Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award
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1964
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Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV
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1964
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Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open
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1964
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KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
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1964
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Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro
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1964
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Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns
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1965
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Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
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1966
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Gemini XII (Lovell/Aldrin) returns to Earth
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1967
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Boston's Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP
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1967
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Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
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1967
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WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting
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1968
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1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary "Ball Four"
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1969
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1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)
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1969
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1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back)
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1969
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250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against Vietnam War
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1969
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Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indicent language in Tampa, Fla
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1969
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Wendy's Hamburgers opens
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1971
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Intel advertises 4004-processor
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1972
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Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
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1972
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Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
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1972
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White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP
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1973
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Egypt & Israel exchange prisoners of war
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1974
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Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" & "Only You" in UK
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1975
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Miss Teenage America Pageant
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1976
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Syrian army conquerors Beirut
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1977
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Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
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1978
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183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
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1978
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Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," premieres in London
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1978
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Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP
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1979
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ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
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1979
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Brit govt identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
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1980
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Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany,
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1981
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"Camelot" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 48 performances
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1982
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Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
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1983
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75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
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1983
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Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed
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1986
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2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Sam Knison hosts)
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1987
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28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver
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1987
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Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
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1987
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Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America
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1987
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NY Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game
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1987
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USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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1988
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91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses
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1988
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Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award
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1988
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PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence
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1988
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Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
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1989
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"Batman" is released on video tape
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1989
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"Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
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1989
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Aaron Sorkin's "Few Good Men," premieres in NYC
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1989
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Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
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1989
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France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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1989
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Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis & Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi
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1989
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Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
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1990
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Pres Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
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1990
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Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album
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1990
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US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
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1991
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Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
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1991
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Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game
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1992
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Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die
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1992
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Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 v SA, Durban)
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1993
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Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach SC on WYAV 104.1 FM
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1993
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Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher
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1994
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"Glass Menagerie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 57 performances
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1994
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6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45
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1994
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Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes)
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1994
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Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
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1995
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"Master Class" opens at Golden Theater NYC for 601 performances
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1995
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Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
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1996
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"Into the Whirlwind" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 perfs
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1997
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19th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards
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1997
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William Shatner (66) weds Norine Kidd
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1999
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Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
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BIRTHS
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1316
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Jean I, king of France (Nov 15-19, 1316) (he lived only 4 days)
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1397
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Nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italy, Pope (1447-55)
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1559
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Albrecht, arch duke of Austrian/cardinal-archbishop of Toledo
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1604
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Davis Mell, composer
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1619
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Philips Koninck, Amsterdams painter/etcher
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1640
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Nicolaus Adam Strungk, composer
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1696
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Gerhardus Havingha, composer
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1705
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Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer
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1708
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William Pitt the Elder, (Whig) UK PM (1756-61, 66-68) `Great Commoner'
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1731
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William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (John Gilpin) [OS]
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1738
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F William Herschel, German/English astronomer (discovered Uranus)
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1741
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Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher
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1746
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Joseph Quesne, composer
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1755
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Jan Blanken, Dutch hydraulic engineer
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1774
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William Horsley, composer
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1775
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Georges-Julien Sieber, composer
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1793
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Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry)
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1800
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George Rodwell, composer
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1814
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Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
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1815
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John Banvard, NYC, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas)
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1816
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Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
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1829
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Petrus A S van Limburg Brouwer, MP/critic (Akbar)
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1836
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Pierce Manning Butler Young, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1896
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1840
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Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [NS=11/27]
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1862
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Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer
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1862
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Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany, author (Before Dawn-Nobel 1912)
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1872
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Robert marquess of Flers, French author (Habit Vert)
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1874
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Schack August Steenberg Krogh, Denmark, physiologist (Nobel-1920)
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1878
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Bela Reinitz, composer
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1879
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Lewis Stone, Worcester Mass, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
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1881
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Franklin P Adams, Chicago Ill, columnist (Information Please)
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1882
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Felix Frankfurter, Vienna Aust, 80th Supreme Court Justice (1939-62)
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1886
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Pedro Sanju n, San Sebastian, Spain, composer (Castilla)
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1887
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Georgia O'Keefe, Sun Prairie Wisc, sculptor/painter (Cow's Skull)
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1887
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Hitoshi Asida, Japanese politician
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1887
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Marianne Moore, St Louis, poet (Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems)
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1887
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Ren Maran, Martinique, author (Batouala, Prix Goncourt)
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1888
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James Morrison, Mattoon IL, actor (Little Detectives)
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1891
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Erwin Rommel, German fieldmarshal (WW II-African campaign)
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1891
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W Averell Harriman, US, (Gov-D-NY)/ambassador to USSR (1943-46)
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1895
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Ina Claire, actress (Claudia, Ninotchka, Rebound)
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1897
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Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet/author (People's Palace)
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1898
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Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch entertainer/poet (Fish-Trap)
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1902
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Frederico Freitas, composer
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1902
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Jack Ingram, IL, actor (2« Stars, Law of the West, Roaring Westward)
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1903
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Stewie Dempster, cricketer (1st great NZ Test batsman)
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1904
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Tilly Losch, Vienna Austria, actress (Garden of Allah)
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1906
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Curtis E Le May, air force general/VP candidate
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1907
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Count Claus Schenck von Stauffenberg, German anti fascist colonel
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1909
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Don Large, Canada, choral director (Wayne King)
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1913
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Rick Schagen, Dutch actress (Saartje-Swiebertje)
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1914
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Gheorghe Dumitrescu, composer
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1914
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Jorge Bolet, Havana Cuba, pianist (C'eurties Instituka)
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1916
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Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados
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1917
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Gerardus H de Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67)
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1919
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Carol Bruce, [Shirley Levy], Great Neck NY, actress (Lillian-WKRP)
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1919
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Joseph Albert Wapner, La, judge (People's Court)
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1922
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Francesco Rosi, Naples Italy, director (Lucky Luciano)
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1922
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Giorgio Manganelli, writer
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1922
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Paul Acket, Dutch publisher/organizer (Music Express, North Sea Jazz)
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1923
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Peter Hammond, London England, actor (Buccaneers)
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1925
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Howard Baker, (Sen-R-Tenn), presidential chief of staff
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1925
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Jurriaan Andriessen, [Leslie Cool], Dutch pianist/composer
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1929
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Edward Asner, KC Kansas, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
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1930
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J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, China, sci-fi author (Drowned World)
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1930
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Whitman Mayo, NYC, actor (Grady-Sanford & Son)
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1931
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Jan Terlouw, Dutch MP (D-66)/author (Winters in Wartime)
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1931
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John Kerr, NYC, actor (South Pacific, Peyton Place, Pit & Pendulum)
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1932
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Clyde L McPhatter, Durham NC, singer (Drifters-Treasure My Love)
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1932
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Petula Clark, Surrey England, rock vocalist (Downtown, My Love)
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1933
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Barbara Carson, Memphis Tn, actress (Comedy Tonight, Carter Country)
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1933
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Jack Burns, Boston Mass, comedian (Burns & Schreiber)
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1934
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Joanna Barnes, Boston, actr (Parent Trap, Spartacus, Goodbye Charlie)
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1934
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Peter Dickinson, composer
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1935
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Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman
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1935
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Peter John Welding, record producer
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1936
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Wolf Biermann, writer
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1937
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William E "Little Willie" John, [Woods], US R&B singer (Fever)
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1937
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Yaphet Kotto, NYC, actor (Brubaker, Alien, Raid on Entebbe, Homicide)
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1939
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Erik Hansen, Denmark, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1960)
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1939
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Thalmus Rasulala, [Jack Crowder], Miami Fla, actor (Blacula, Roots)
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1940
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Sam Waterson, Cambridge Mass, actor (Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate)
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1941
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, US, sci-fi author (Magic Moscow)
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1942
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Daniel Barenboim, Buenos Aires Argentinia, pianist/conductor
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1943
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Roger Donaldson, director (Cocktail, Cadillac Man, White Sands)
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1945
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Anni-Frid Lyngsdtad, [Fryeda Anderson], Sweden, rocker (ABBA)
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1946
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Carmine Appice, NYC, rock drummer (Vanilla Fudge)
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1946
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Janet Lennon, Culver City Calif, singer (Lennon Sisters)
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1947
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William B Richardson, (Rep-D-New Mexico, 1983- )
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1948
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Roy P Dyson, (Rep-D-MD, 1981- )
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1950
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Mac Maurice Wilkins, discus thrower (1st to break 70m)
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1951
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Dave Zelmon, rocker
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1952
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"Macho Man" Randy Savage, [Poffo], Sarasota FL, wrestler (WWF/SMW/ICW)
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1953
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Yuri Viktorovich Prikhodko, Russian cosmonaut
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1954
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Ab Bryant, rock bassist/vocalist (Chilliwack)
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1954
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Beverly D'Angelo, Columbus Ohio, actress (Vacation, European Vacation)
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1955
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Oliver Conant, NYC, actor (Summer of '42)
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1956
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Ashley Cox, Dallas Texas, playmate (December, 1977)
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1957
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Joe Leeway, rocker (Thompson Twins)
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1957
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Kevin Eubanks, bandleader (Tonight Show)
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1958
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Marty Davis, San Jose Cat, tennis star
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1960
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Tilda Swinton, London England, actress (Orlando)
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1963
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Gideon Joe Ng, Toronto Ontario, table tennis player (Olympics-96)
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1963
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Michele McAnany, LA Calif, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
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1966
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Petra Huber, Austria, tennis star
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1967
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Greg Anthony, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies, Seattle Supersonics)
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1967
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Harvey Franklin, WLAF WR (Amsterdam Admirals)
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1967
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Laura Garrone, Italy, tennis star
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1967
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Michiyoshi Ohara, wrestler (WAR/NJPW)
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1967
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Pedro Borbon, Mao Dom Rep, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
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1967
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Scott Schrader, California, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Golden State)
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1968
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Brenda Alyce Bassett, Kokomo Indiana, Miss Indiana-America (1991)
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1968
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James Brady, Brooklyn NY, columnist (NY Post)
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1969
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Helen Kelesi, Canada, tennis star
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1969
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Peter Martin, cricketer (Lancashire & England pace bowler 1995)
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1970
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Cecil Doggette, WLAF cornerback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
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1970
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Karin van Breeschoten, Rotterdam Holland, playmate (Sept, 1989)
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1970
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Lesley Reddon, ice hockey goalie (Canada, Oly-98)
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1970
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Mirjam van Breeschoten, Rotterdam Holland, playmate (Sept, 1989)
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1971
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Natalia Medvedeva, Kiev Ukraine, tennis star (1993 Prague Essen)
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1971
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Rohan Robinson, Australian hurdler (Olympics-96)
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1971
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Sandra Kim, [Caldarone], French singer (J'aime la Vie)
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1972
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Christian van der Weerden, Dutch soccer player (NEC, Vitesse)
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1972
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Greg Bloedorn, NFL center (Seattle Seahawks)
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1973
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Jason Dunn, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
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1973
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Jorge Diaz, guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
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1973
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Rachel Kathleen English, Thomaston Ga, Miss America-Georgia (1996)
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1974
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Fred Brock, wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
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1976
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Jessica Amey, Montreal Quebec, 100m butterfly/4 x 100 (Olympics-96)
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1977
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Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, 9th in succession to British throne
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1981
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Natalie Lacuesta, Chicago Ill, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
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DEATHS
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565
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Justitianus I, [Petrus Sabbatius], Byzantine emperor (527-65), dies
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1194
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Margaretha van Elzas, wife of count Boudouin V of Henegouwen, dies
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1280
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Albertus Magnus the Great, German leader/bishop Regensburg, dies at 87
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1629
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Bethlen G bor, King of Hungary (1620-29), dies at 49
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1630
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Johann Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58
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1634
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Johann Staden, composer, dies at 53
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1658
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Jacobus Revius, [Reefsen], theologist/writer/poet, dies at about 72
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1670
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Jan A Comenius, [Komensky], Czech/Neth educator/philosopher, dies
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1691
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Albert Cuyp, landscape painter, buried at 71
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1787
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Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, composer (Iphignie Tauride), dies at 73
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1788
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Peregrinus Pogl, composer, dies at 77
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1812
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Eagle Fokke Simonsz, writer (Year 3000), dies at about 57
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1815
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Johann Lukas Schubaur, composer, dies at 65
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1831
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Vincenc Masek, composer, dies at 76
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1832
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Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, dies at 63
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1842
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Joseph Rastrelli, composer, dies at 43
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1848
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P Rossi, Italian, murdered
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1863
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Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (childless), dies
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1897
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John Mercer Langston, US black jurist, dies at 67
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1907
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Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer, dies at 73
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1908
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Cixi [the old Buddha], empress-widow of China, dies
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1908
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Tz'u-hsi (Cixi), empress of China, dies at 73
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1910
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Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author, dies at 79
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1918
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Georges Antoine, composer, dies at 26
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1919
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Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies
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1931
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Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, publisher, dies
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1933
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Affie Jarvis, cricketer (11 Tests for Australia, 9 catches), dies
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1934
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Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth's manufacturer (Devout & D), dies
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1938
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George Glover, cricketer (Test for S Africa 1895-96), dies
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1944
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Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed
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1954
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Lionel Barrymore, [Blythe], actor (Dr Kildare, Key Largo), dies at 76
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1955
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Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65
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1958
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Tyrone Power, actor (Mark of Zorro), dies of a heart attack at 44
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1959
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Alex Kennedy, cricketer (31 wkts in 5 Tests for England 1922-23), dies
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1961
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Douglas Walton, actor (Bad Lands), dies of heart attack at 51
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1961
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Elsie Ferguson, actress (Lie, Footlights, Scarlet Pages), dies at 76
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1961
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Johanna Westerdk, 1st Dutch woman prof (Utrecht, 1917-52), dies at 78
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1963
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Fritz Reiner, Hung/US conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch), dies at 74
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1967
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Alice Lake, silent screen actress (Frisco Kid, Wicked), dies at 72
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1967
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Michael James Adams, USAF pilot (X-15), dies in X-15 crash at 37
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1969
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Roy D'Arcy, actor (Lovers, Actress), dies at 75
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1974
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James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty), dies on his 86th birthday
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1975
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Willem Scheps, Dutch journalist, dies at 77
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1976
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Jean Gabin, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 72
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1978
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Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Thoughts & Female), dies in NY at 76
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1980
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Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 75
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1981
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Enid Markey, actress (Foolish Mothers, Civilization), dies at 85
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1983
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John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies at 71
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1984
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Baby Fae, who received a baboon's heart, dies at 3 weeks
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1985
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Spencer W Kimball, US head of mormon church, dies at 90
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1986
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Alexandre Tansman, Polish composer (Dyptique), dies at 89
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1988
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Mona Washbourne, actress (Blue Bird, Games), dies at 84
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1990
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Bill E Herndon, actor (Rivals), dies at 54
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1993
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Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader/painter, dies
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1993
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Maurice Bessy, French film historian (Cinmonde), dies at 82
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1993
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Mouin Shabaita, Palestinian al-Fatah commandant, murdered
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1993
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Theo Huizenaar, Dutch boxing trainer (Bep van Klaveren), dies at 93
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1994
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Anthony Ward, writer, dies at 57
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1994
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James Winston Watts, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90
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1994
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Janet Ahlberg, illustrator, dies at 50
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1994
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Volodymyr Ivashko, Pres of Ukraine (1990-91), dies
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1995
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Eve Perrick, journalist, dies at 78
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1995
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Herbert Delauney Bill Hughes, educationist, dies at 81
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1995
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Kristian Lundin, record producer, dies at 22
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1996
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Alger Hiss, former alleged spy/lawyer, dies at 92
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1997
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Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85
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1997
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William Perrie, prison governor, dies at 79
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