| 1963 |
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Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president. |
| 1964 |
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Almost 40,000 people pay tribute to John F. Kennedy at Arlington Cemetery on the first anniversary of his death. |
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| 1990 |
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Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
confirms the end of her premiership by withdrawing from the leadership
election of the Conservative Party. |
| 1995 |
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The first feature-length film created entirely with computer generated imagery – Toy Story – premiers. |
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| 2005 |
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Angela Merkel becomes the first woman ever
to be Chancellor of Germany; the former research scientist had
previously been the first secretary-general of the Christian Democratic
Union. |
| 2008 |
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Hamas and Israel begin a cease-fire following eight days of violence and 150 deaths. |
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| 1819 |
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), English novelist (Silas Marner, Middlemarch). |
| 1890 |
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Charles de Gaulle, French general in exile during World War II and president of France from 1958 to 1969. |
| 1899 |
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Hoagy Carmichael, American composer, pianist and singer. |
| 1913 |
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Benjamin Britten, English composer, pianist and conductor. |
| 1924 |
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Geraldine Page, actress well known for roles in Tennessee Williams’ plays. |
| 1925 |
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Gunther Schuller, composer and French Horn player. |
| 1943 |
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Billie Jean King, U.S. tennis player and women’s rights pioneer. |
| 1949 |
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David Pietrusza, historian, author (1920, 1960, 1948). |
| 1950 |
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Steven Van Zandt, singer, songwriter,
musician, producer (E Street Band, Steel Mill, Southside Johnny &
The Ashbury Jukes) and actor (The Sopranos). |
| 1958 |
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Jamie Lee Curtis, actress (Halloween, Trading Places, A Fish Called Wanda), author (Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day). |
| 1961 |
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Mariel Hemingway, actress (Lipstick, Manhattan). |
| 1984 |
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Scarlett Johansson, actress, model (North, Lost in Translation). | |
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| 1694 |
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Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, historian, poet, dramatist and novelist. |
| 1898 |
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Rene Magritte, surrealist painter (Golconda). |
| 1904 |
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Coleman Hawkins, jazz saxophonist. |
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| 1929 |
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Marilyn French, novelist and critic (The Women’s Room). |
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| 1945 |
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Goldie Hawn, actress, director, producer; gained public attention as part of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In TV series in the 1960s; won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Cactus Flower (1969). |
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