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708
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Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later)
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946
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Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded/ousted
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1346
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Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand
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1535
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Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
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1552
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France signs secret treaty with German Protestants
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1562
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3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens
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1582
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Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic
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1586
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Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army
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1752
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Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism
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1754
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Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
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1759
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British Museum opens in Montague House, London
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1762
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Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC
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1777
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People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
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1780
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Continental Congress establishes court of appeals
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1785
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Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres
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1797
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1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London)
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1831
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1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, SC
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1831
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1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
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1833
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HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego
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1844
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U of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
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1847
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1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC
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1851
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Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera
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1857
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1st first-class game in Sydney, NSW v Vic at The Domain
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1861
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Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
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1863
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1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
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1865
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Ft Fisher, NC falls to Union troops
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1866
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Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori v Cechach," premieres in Prague
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1870
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Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
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1877
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US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens
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1882
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1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
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1886
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Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue
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1892
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Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass
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1895
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Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record
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1895
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French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
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1895
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Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg (1/27 NS)
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1896
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Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel," premieres in London
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1900
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SCNEC soccer team forms
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1905
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Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater
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1907
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3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee De Forest
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1907
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Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them
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1908
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C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Aust
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1915
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Japan claims economic control of China
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1915
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Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike," premieres in NYC
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1919
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2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21
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1919
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Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit," premieres
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1919
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Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland
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1919
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Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires
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1919
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W Collison & O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room," premieres in NYC
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1922
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Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier
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1924
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3rd Dutch govt Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
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1925
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Hans Luther forms German govt, with DNVP
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1930
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George Headley scores century on debut v England (made 176)
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1934
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8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
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1934
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Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)
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1935
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300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
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1935
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Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in NYC
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1936
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1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
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1936
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Horace Stoneham elected president of NY Giants
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1936
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Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates
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1939
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1st NFL pro bowl, NY Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field
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1939
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Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
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1940
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German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
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1942
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Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II
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1942
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FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II
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1943
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1,000 workers complete air conditioning system for Pentagon
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1943
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1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught
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1943
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World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
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1944
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European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
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1944
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General Eisenhower arrives in England
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1944
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Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die
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1945
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"Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 perfs
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1945
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Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets
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1945
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Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
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1949
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Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin
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1950
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4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC
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1951
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"Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
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1951
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Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest
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1953
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16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Wash DC station
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1953
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GDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage"
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1955
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1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum
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1955
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D Shostakovitch' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad
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1955
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USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
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1956
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Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
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1956
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D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia
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1956
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KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
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1956
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NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30
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1957
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Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field
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1958
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NY Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV
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1961
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NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 35-31
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1961
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Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open
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1961
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Supremes signed with Motown Records
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1962
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50th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64)
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1962
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Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea
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1964
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Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in NYC
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1964
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Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract
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1965
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Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain"
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1965
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Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich forms
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1966
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AFL Pro Bowl: All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19
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1966
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NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 36-7
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1967
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Superbowl I: Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs, 35-10 in LA Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB
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1968
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KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
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1969
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Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
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1969
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Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
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1970
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Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's)
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1970
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Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria
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1971
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"Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 19 performances
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1971
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Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt
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1971
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George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"
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1972
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Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels
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1973
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4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
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1973
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Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel
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1973
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Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
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1973
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Pres Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N Vietnam
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1974
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"Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC
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1974
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24th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 134-123 at Seattle
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1974
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Expert panel reports 18«-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures
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1975
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Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence
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1975
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Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)
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1976
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Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford
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1976
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US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit
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1976
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USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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1977
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Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"
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1977
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Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
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1978
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Superbowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in N Orleans Superbowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, D
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1978
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Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman
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1980
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Pam Gems' "Piaf!," premieres in London
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1981
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"Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV
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1981
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Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
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1982
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"Forbidden Broadway" by/with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in NYC
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1983
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Dutch political party DS'70 disbands
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1983
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Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard
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1983
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Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v India
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1983
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Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours
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1984
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Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak
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1984
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Schnbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44)
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1985
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Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell
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1985
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Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president
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1985
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Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's v India
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1985
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Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years
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1986
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Living Seas opens (Disneyland)
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1988
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Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes
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1988
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Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world Test record
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1988
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Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) v WI on Test debut
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1989
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"Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 176 perfs
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1989
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10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 35 awards
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1989
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Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
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1989
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Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble
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1989
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Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000
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1990
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42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
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1990
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6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
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1990
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AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
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1990
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Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent
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1990
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NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106
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1991
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Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
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1991
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UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)
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1992
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Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia
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1992
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Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man
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1992
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Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum
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1993
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7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die
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1993
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Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
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1993
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Top mafia leader Salvatore "Tot" Riina arrested in Palermo
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1994
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15th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10
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1994
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Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
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1994
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Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist
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1995
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Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion
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1995
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SD Chargers beat Pitt Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship
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1995
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SF 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship
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1995
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Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
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1995
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Western Washington begins using new area code 360
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1997
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Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin
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1997
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Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
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1998
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NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
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BIRTHS
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1432
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Afonso V "the African", king of Portugal (1438-1481)
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1507
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Johann Oporinus [Herbster], Swiss book publisher (Koran)
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1567
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Black Box, [Catherine Quinol], Guadeloupe, vocalist (Love Sensation)
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1715
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Georg C Wagenzeil, Austria (court)composer/pianist
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1716
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Philip Livingston, merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)
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1730
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John Malchair, composer
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1733
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Joseph Lederer, composer
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1742
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Eugene Godecharle, composer
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1779
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Jean Coralli, Paris, ballet producer/choreographer
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1791
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Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece)
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1793
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Ferdinand G Waldmller, Austrian painter
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1795
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Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/man of letters
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1798
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Thomas Crofton Croker, Irish story teller (Fairy legends)
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1809
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Cornelia Connelly, Phila, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus)
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1809
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Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician (libertarian socialist)
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1812
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Peter C Asbjírnsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer
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1813
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James Marion Sims, SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation)
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1814
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Ludwig Schlfli, Swiss vicar/mathematician
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1815
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Henry Morris Naglee, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
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1817
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Lewis Golding Arnold, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1871
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1821
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Lafayette McLaws, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
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1826
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Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen)
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1841
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Lord Frederick Stanley, presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup
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1845
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Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman pres (National Educational Association)
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1845
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Heinrich Vogl, composer
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1850
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Mihail Eminesco, [Eminovici], Romanian poet (Samanul Dionis)
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1850
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Sonya Kurtovsky Kovalevsky, mathemetician (Acad of Science)
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1858
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Giovanni Segantini, Italy, painter
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1863
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Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian
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1863
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Wilhelm Marx, premier (Prussia)
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1866
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Nathan Sderblom, Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel '30)
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1868
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Noach Zjordanija, Georgian veterinarian/premier (1918-21)
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1870
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Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer (Greenland)
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1871
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Bertram Shapleigh, composer
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1873
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Max Adler, Austria sociologist/socialist theorist
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1877
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Lewis M Terman, Ind, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test)
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1878
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Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer
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1879
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Ernest Thesiger, London England, actor (Bride of Frankenstein, Ghoul)
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1882
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Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist (Polish Peasant in Europe)
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1888
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Joseph Henabery, Omaha NE, director (Cobra)
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1891
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Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet (Noise of Time)
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1892
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Frank Hutchens, composer
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1892
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Rex Ingram, [Reginald IM Hitchcock], dir (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
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1893
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D Ivor D Novello, British composer/writer (Truth Game)
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1893
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Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premiere of Yugoslavia (1939-4.)
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1893
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Ivor Novello, Cardiff Wales, actor (Lodger, Phantom Fiend)
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1894
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Edmond Rubbens, Belgian attorney/minister of colonization
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1896
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Jacobo Ficher, composer
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1899
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Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman)
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1900
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Csar Domela, Dutch painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis son)
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1900
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William Heinesen, Fros Island, writer (Noatun)
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1902
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud, king (Saudi Arabia)
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1906
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Aristotle Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate
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1906
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Rezso Kokai, composer
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1908
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Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project)
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1908
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Roberta Bitgood, composer
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1909
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Elie Siegmeister, NYC, composer (Plough & the Stars)
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1909
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Enrique Sasal y Chapi, composer
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1909
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Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman's drummer (Sing Sing Sing)
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1911
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Cy Feuer, NYC, Bdwy producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)
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1911
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Wim Kan, Dutch cabaretier
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1912
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Michel J-P Debr, premier of France (1959-62)
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1913
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Lloyd Bridges, San Leandro Calif, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane)
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1914
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Lord Dacre of Glanton, British historian
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1916
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Mikki Doyle, journalist
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1918
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Andreas M Donner, Dutch jurist (constitutional law)
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1918
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Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1954-1971)
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1920
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John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, Phila, Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY
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1920
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John Junor, British editor in chief (Sunday Express)
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1922
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Franz Fhmann, writer
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1923
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Lee Teng-hui, president of ROC (Taiwan), head of KMT (1988- )
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1925
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Keith Bentley, international racing cyclist
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1925
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Ruth Slenczynska, Sacramento, California, pianist
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1926
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Maria Schell, Vienna Austria, actress (Space 1999)
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1927
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Francis Routh, composer
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1927
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Norm Crosby, Boston MA, comedian (Young at Heart Comedians)
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1929
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"Queen Ida" Guillory, Ziadaco music
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1929
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Eva Badura-Skoda, composer
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1929
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Martin Luther King Jr, Atlanta, dreamer (Nobel 1964)
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1931
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Derek Meddings, special effects technician
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1931
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Murad Kazhlayev, composer
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1931
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Thomas Hoving, NYC, news correspondent (20/20)
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1932
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Dean Smith, US actor/relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
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1932
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Enrique Raxach, composer
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1932
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Louis Woodard Jones, New Rochelle NY, 4X400m relayer (Oly-gold-56)
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1935
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Malcolm Frager, St Louis, Missouri, pianist
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1935
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Robert Silverberg, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet)
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1937
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Margaret O'Brien, San Diego, actress (Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St Louis)
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1939
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Charles Christopher Steel, composer
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1941
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Captain Beefheart, [Don Van Vliet], rocker (Bongo Fury, Shiny Beast)
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1942
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Edward "Sonny" Bivins, US singer (Manhattans-Kiss & Say Goodbye)
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1943
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Mike Marshall, MLB pitcher (1974 Cy Young Award)
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1945
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Marie-Christine AHI von Leibnitz, (German?)/British princess
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1947
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Andrea Martin, Portland ME, comediene (SCTV, Club Paradise)
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1947
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Pete Waterman, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
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1948
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Dini Petty, Canadian talk show host (CITY-TV)
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1948
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Ronnie Van Zant, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
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1948
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Tommy Nolan, Montreal Canada, actor (Jody-Buckskin)
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1949
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Howard Allen Twitty, Phoenix AZ, PGA golfer (1979 BC Open)
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1950
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David Lynn Jones, Bexar Ark, country singer (Bonnie Jean)
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1951
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Charo, Murcia Spain, actress/singer (Chico & the Man, Love Boat)
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1951
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Martha Davis, Calif, vocalist/guitar (Motels-Only the Lonely, Shame)
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1952
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Melvyn Gale, rocker (ELO)
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1953
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Boris Blank, rocker (Yello)
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1953
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Randy White, NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
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1955
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Enrico Mentana, Milan Italy, Italian newscaster (RAI)
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1956
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Paul Parker, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1981)
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1956
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Vera Sosulya, USSR, toboggan (Olympic-gold-1980)
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1957
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Mario Van Peebles, Mexico, actor (Posse, South Bronx Heroes)
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1958
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Julian Sands, actor (One Night Stand)
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1959
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Pete Trewavas, Middlesbrough, bassist, (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
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1960
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Tim Curtis, cricketer (England righty batsman in 5 Tests 1988-89)
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1961
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Iris DeMent, Paragould Ar, country singer (Our Town)
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1963
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Erling Kagge, Norway, explorer (South Pole)
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1963
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Lijuan Geng, Hebei China, Canadian tennis player (Olympics-96)
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1963
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Richard Nasheim, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
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1963
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Yaro Dachniwsky, Chic Ill, team handball goalie (Olympics-1996)
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1964
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Cees van der de Linden, soccer player
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1964
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Paula Schnurr, Kirkland Lake Ontario, 1.5k (Olympics-8-92, 96)
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1965
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Derek B, rocker (Bullet from a Gun)
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1965
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Michael Clemons, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
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1967
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Lisa Lisa, [Velez], rock vocalist (& Cult Jam)
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1967
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Richard Blakey, cricketer (England wicket-keeper in India 1993)
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1967
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Ted N Tryba, Wilkes-Barre PA, PGA golfer (1995 Anheuser-Busch Golf)
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1968
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Bob Dahl, NFL guard (Washington Redskins)
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1968
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Chad Lowe, Dayton Ohio, actor (Spencer, Apprentice to Murder)
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1968
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Felton Spencer, NBA center (SF Warriors)
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1968
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Laurie Fellner, Appleton Wisc, team handball goalie (Olympics-92, 96)
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1968
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Steve McConaghy, Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96)
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1969
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Adam Burt, Detroit, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
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1969
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Delino DeShields, Seaford DE, infielder (Montreal Expos, LA Dodgers)
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1969
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Demetra Hampton, actress (Valentina)
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1969
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Leonard Wheeler, NFL safety/cornerback (Cin Bengals, Minn Vikings)
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1969
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Marsha Miller, Rochester NY, WPVA volleyballer (National-17th-1995)
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1969
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Rob van Dijk, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
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1969
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Rod de Highden, Australian 5k/10k/marathoner (Olympics-96)
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1969
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Siupeli Malamala, NFL guard/tackle (NY Jets)
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1970
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Dan Landry, San Diego Ca, volleyball opposite hitter (Olympics-96)
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1970
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Elroy Kromheer, soccer player (FC Volendam)
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1970
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Michele Granger, Anaheim Calif, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
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1971
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LeShon Johnson, running back (Arizona Cardinals)
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1971
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Regina King, LA Calif, actress (Brenda Jenkins-227)
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1972
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Ernie Reyes Jr, San Jose Calif, actor (Ernie-Sidekicks)
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1972
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Kimberly Anne Massaro, St Louis Mo, Miss America (Missouri-5th-1997)
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1973
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Daniel Nijhof, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
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1973
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Randy Srochenski, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
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1974
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Aubrey Jo Hiller, Missoula Montana, Miss America-Montana (1997)
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1974
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Mike Minter, safety (Carolina Panthers)
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1975
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Greg Loveridge, cricketer (NZ leg-spinner, did not bowl v Zim 1996)
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1975
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Mary Pierce, Montreal Canada, tennis star (1995 Australian Open)
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DEATHS
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69
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Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), lynched at 70
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1208
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Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered
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1684
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Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48
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1705
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Walraad, the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nijmegen, dies
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1744
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Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer, dies at 72
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1755
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Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer, dies at 83
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1765
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Carlmann Kolb, composer, dies at 61
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1775
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer, dies
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1788
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Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77
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1812
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Johannes Herbst, composer, dies at 76
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1816
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Henry Harington, composer, dies at 88
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1844
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Joseph Mazzinghi, composer, dies at 78
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1866
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M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies
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1896
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Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72
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1904
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Eduard Lassen, composer, dies at 73
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1909
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Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85
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1909
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Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63
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1911
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Wilhelm Berger, composer, dies at 49
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1915
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Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63
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1919
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Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47
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1919
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Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered
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1922
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John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89
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1924
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Geza Zichy, composer, dies at 74
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1926
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Enrico Toselli, composer, dies at 42
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1932
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Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77
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1934
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Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70
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1934
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Patrick O'Malley, US policeman, killed by John Dillinger
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1936
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Henry Forster, cricket (Hants & Oxford U, Gov-Gen of Australia), dies
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1942
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Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic-gold-08, 12), dies at 58
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1949
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Black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie)
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1949
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Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63
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1953
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Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer, dies at 76
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1955
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Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
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1961
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Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer, dies at 49
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1962
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Kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62
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1964
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Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden, US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58
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1965
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Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered
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1966
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Betsy Mitchell, US 100m backstroke swimmer, dies at 25
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1967
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Albert Szirmai, composer, dies at 86
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1968
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Bill Masterson, 1st NHLer fatally injured during game (Jan 13), dies
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1968
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John Davidson, actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80
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1968
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Leopold Infeld, Pol nuclear physcist (Motion & Relativity), dies at 69
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1969
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Theodor Werner, German painter, dies at 82
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1971
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John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50
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1973
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Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68
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1974
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Karel Salmon, composer, dies at 76
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1978
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Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy
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1981
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Emanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92
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1982
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Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76
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1983
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Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach Fla at 80
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1983
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Shepperd Strudwick, actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75
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1986
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James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
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1987
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Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58
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1987
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Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, dies at 69
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1987
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Ray Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 83
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1988
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Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83
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1989
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Wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies
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1990
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Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
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1993
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Henry Iba, basketball coach, dies at 88
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1993
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Huub H Jacobse, Dutch MP (VVD), dies at 68
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1993
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Ken Cory, dies of AIDS at 51
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1993
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Sammy Cahn, [Cohen], US songwriter (Bei Mir Bist Du Schn), dies at 79
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1994
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Gyrgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72
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1994
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Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52
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1994
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Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
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1995
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Sollie McElroy, singer, dies at 61
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1996
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Les Baxter, singer/orch leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73
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1996
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Moshushu II, King of Lesotho (1966-90), dies at 51
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1996
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Richard Charles Cobb, historian, dies at 78
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1997
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Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker, dies at 82
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1997
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Kenneth Thimann, botanist, dies at 92
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1998
|
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Amos "Junior" Wells, blues musician, dies at 63
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1998
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Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary PM of India (1964, 66), dies
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1998
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Junior Wells, blues harpist, dies at 63
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