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100th anniversary of the birth of science fiction author Isaac Asimov |
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80th anniversary of Britain introducing food rationing during WWII |
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9th |
100th anniversary of the birth of Dad
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16th |
100th anniversary of Prohibition coming into effect in the USA |
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17th |
200th anniversary of the birth of English author Anne Bronte |
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20th |
30th anniversary of the death of Barbara Stanwyck, award-winning American stage, film and television actress. |
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20th |
100th anniversary of the birth of Star Trek actor DeForest Kelley |
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26th |
75th anniversary of the birth of Jacqueline du Pr?, British cellist. |
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27th |
75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps by the Soviet Red Army |
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29th |
200th anniversary of the death of King George III |
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50th anniversary of the death of English logician and philosopher Bertrand Russell |
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6th |
75th anniversary of the birth of Reggae musician Bob Marley |
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7th |
80th anniversary of the premiere of the Walt Disney film Pinocchio, in New York City, USA. |
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8th |
200th anniversary of the birth of American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman |
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10th |
80th anniversary of the cartoon characters Tom and Jerry making their first appearance in the Hanna and Barbera cartoon Puss Gets the Boot. (Tom the cat was named Jasper, and Jerry the mouse was named Jinx.) |
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11th |
45th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher becoming the first female leader of the Conservative Party in the UK. |
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11th |
30th anniversary of Nelson Mandela being released from prison after 27 years. |
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13th |
75th anniversary of Royal Air Force bombers being dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment during World War II. |
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14th |
45th anniversary of the death of P. G. Wodehouse, British-born American comic novelist, short story writer, lyricist and playwright. Best known as the creator of Jeeves. |
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19th |
75th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese Volcano Islands during World War II. The flag was raised on February 23rd. |
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21st |
75th anniversary of the death of Scottich athlete Eric Liddell who chose his religious beliefs over his sport. |
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23rd |
200th anniversary of the Cato Street Conspiracy being exposed. It was a plot to murder the Cabinet of the UK Government. |
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26th |
250th anniversary of the death of Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini |
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28th |
200th anniversary of the birth of English illustrator John Tenniel known for his illustrations of Alice in Wonderland |
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28th |
45th anniversary of the Moorgate tube crash on the London underground. A train failed to stop at the end of the line and crashed into a wall, killing 43 people. |
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3rd |
100th anniversary of the birth of Star Trek actor James Doohan |
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12th |
75th anniversary of the death of diary writer Anne Frank in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. This is the date attributed to her death which is unknkown but thought to be in March 1945. |
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14th |
200th anniversary of the birth of Victor Emmauel II, King of Italy |
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15th |
45th anniversary of the death of Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate. |
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15th |
30th anniversary of Mikhail Gorbachev becoming the first (and only) President of the Soviet Union. |
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16th |
80th anniversary of the death of Selma Lagerlof, Swedish novelist. The first woman and the first Swedish writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). |
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16th |
100th anniversary of the birth of Australian actor Leo McKern |
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25th |
100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Who actor Patrick Troughton |
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26th |
75th anniversary of the death of David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister (1916?22). |
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27th |
250th anniversary of the death of Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo |
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30th |
75th anniversary of the birth of rock guitarist Eric Clapton |
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100th anniversary of the birth of Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune |
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6th |
500th anniversary of the death of Italian artist Raphael |
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7th |
100th anniversary of the birth of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar |
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7th |
250th anniversary of the birth of English poet William Wordsworth |
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11th |
250th anniversary of the birth of British Prime Minister George Canning |
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12th |
75th anniversary of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States (1933?45) |
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15th |
30th anniversary of the death of Greta Garbo, Swedish film actress. |
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17th |
80th anniversary of the birth of Billy Fury, British pop/rock singer and actor. |
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18th |
65th anniversary of the death of Albert Einstein, German-born American theoretical physicist. |
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22nd |
150th anniversary of the birth of Russian revolutionary and leader Vladimir Lenin |
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25th |
250th anniversary of the death of French abbot and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet |
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26th |
80th anniversary of the death of Carl Bosch, German industrial chemist and engineer. |
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28th |
75th anniversary of the execution of Italian leader Benito Mussolini |
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30th |
75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler commiting suicide during the Second World War |
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75th anniversary of German Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels committing suicide |
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200th anniversary of the Cato Street Conspirators being executed? the last hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain, though only hung and beheaded. |
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8th |
75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe) during the Second World War |
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10th |
100th anniversary of the death of American inventor John Wesley Hyatt |
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10th |
80th anniversary of Winston Churchill being appointed Prime Minister during World War Two. |
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11th |
200th anniversary of the launch of Darwin
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12th |
200th anniversary of the birth of English nurse Florence Nightingale |
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15th |
80th anniversary of the first McDonald?s restaurant opening in San Bernardino, California, USA. |
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15th |
80th anniversary of nylon stockings going on sale for the first time in the USA. |
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15th |
300th anniversary of the birth of astronomer Maximilian Hell |
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16th |
30th anniversary of the death of Sammy Davis, Jr., American singer, dancer, actor & entertainer. |
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16th |
100th anniversary of the Canonisation of Joan of Arc at Saint Peter
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18th |
100th anniversary of the birth of Pope John Paul II |
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26th |
100th anniversary of the birth of American singer Peggy Lee |
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27th |
80th anniversary of the Dunkirk Evacuation during World War Two. |
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30th anniversary of the death of Sir Rex Harrison, award-winning British actor. |
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7th |
50th anniversary of the death of English author E.M. Forster |
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7th |
500th anniversary of King Henry VIII meeting King Francis I at the Field of the Cloth of Gold |
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9th |
150th anniversary of the death of English author Charles Dickens |
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11th |
50th anniversary of the death of Russian revolutionary politician Alexander Kerensky |
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18th |
80th anniversary of the Finest Hour speech made by Winston Churchill during World War Two. |
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30th anniversary of the dismantling of Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany. |
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26th |
75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter in San Francisco, USA by representatives of 50 countries. (The UN was established on 24th Oct.) |
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29th |
80th anniversary of the death of Paul Klee, Swiss expressionist/surrealist artist and teacher. |
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29th |
100th anniversary of the birth of American animator Ray Harryhausen |
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3rd |
35th anniversary of the film Back to the Future being released in the USA. The UK release was on the 4th December 1985. |
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10th |
80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain during World War II which ran until 31st October. |
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11th |
100th anniversary of the birth of actor Yul Brynner |
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70th anniversary of the BBC children?s television show Andy Pandy being first broadcast in the UK. |
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30th anniverdsary of the first episode of the television series Northern Exposure being broadcast in the USA. |
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30th anniversary of the death of Margaret Lockwood, British stage, film and television actress. |
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16th |
75th anniversary of the USA detonating the world?s first nuclear weapon, at the Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. |
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17th |
75th anniversary of the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meeting in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany after World War Two. It ran until the 2nd August. |
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26th |
200th anniversary of the opening of the Union Chain Bridge across the River Tweed between England and Scotland |
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27th |
80th anniversary of the first appearance of Bugs Bunny in the Warner Bros. cartoon A Wild Hare. |
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30th anniversary of the start of the first Gulf War which started when Iraq invaded Kuwait and ran until 28th February 1991. |
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6th |
75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima during World War II |
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9th |
75th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki during World War II |
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14th |
75th anniversary of VJ Day when Japan announced its unconditional surrender, ending WWII in the Pacific. Officially ended on 2nd September. |
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16th |
80th anniversary of the death of Henri Desgrange, French cyclist and journalist who founded the Tour De France. |
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17th |
30th anniversary of the death of the death of Pearl Bailey, award-winning American actress and singer. |
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100th anniversary of the birth of Irish-American actress Maureen O
Hara |
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18th |
80th anniversary of the death of Walter P. Chrysler, American engineer, car manufacturer and founder of the Chrysler Corporation |
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20th |
80th anniversary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill making his famous wartime speech containing the line "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" |
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21st |
80th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary. |
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22nd |
100th anniversary of the birth of American sci-fi author Ray Bradbury |
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24th |
250th anniversary of the death of English poet Thomas Chatterton |
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30th |
80th anniversary of the death of Sir J. J. Thomson, British physicist. Winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering the electron. |
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75th anniversary of the offical ending of World War II with the formal signing of the surrender document by the Japanese on USS Missouri. |
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7th |
80th anniversary of the Blitz during World War II which lasted until the 21st May 1941. |
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7th |
95th anniversary of the birth of Laura Ashley, Welsh designer and businesswoman. |
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8th |
95th anniversary of the birth of Peter Sellers British actor and comedian best known for the Pink Panther films. |
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13th |
500th annviersary of the birth of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, who was chief advisor to Queen Elizabeth I |
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16th |
100th anniversary of the Wall Street Bombing in New York in which a bomb on a horse-drawn wagon exploded in front of the J. P. Morgan building |
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17th |
50th anniversary of the death of American rock musician Jimi Hendrix |
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150th anniversary of the start of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War |
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23rd |
100th anniversary of the birth of American actor Mickey Rooney |
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26th |
200th anniversary of the death of American pioneer Daniel Boone |
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26th |
75th anniversary of the death of B?la Bart?k, Hungarian composer and pianist. |
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35th anniversary of the death of Rock Hudson, American film and TV actor. |
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95th anniversary of John Logie Baird performing the first test of a working television system. |
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4th |
50th anniversary of the death of American rock singer Janis Joplin. |
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4th |
300th anniversary of the birth of Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi |
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6th |
200th anniversary of the birth of Swedish soprano Jenny Lind |
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8th |
50th anniversary of the birth of American actor Matt Damon |
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9th |
80th anniversary of the birth of John Lennon, British rock singer, songwriter and musician also in the Beatles. |
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10th |
35th anniversary of the death of Yul Brynner, Russian-born American stage and film actor. |
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10th |
35th anniversary of the death of Orson Welles, American stage, film and radio actor. |
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16th |
80th anniversary of the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland. |
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20th |
400th anniversary of the birth of Dutch artist Aelbert Cuyp |
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28th |
80th anniversary of the sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Empress of Britain by a German U-Boat during WWII. |
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29th |
75th anniversary of the first commercially successful ballpoint pen going on sale in the USA. |
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5th |
85th anniversary of the first flight of the Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft which played such a big part in the Battle of Britain. |
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85th anniversary of the launch of the board game Monopoly by Parker Brothers. |
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9th |
50th anniversary of the death of French President Charles de Gaulle |
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9th |
80th anniversary of the death of Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister (1937?40). |
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10th |
95th anniversary of the birth of Richard Burton, Welsh stage and film actor. |
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11th |
100th anniversary of the funeral and burial of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey |
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400th anniversary of the Mayflower Pilgrims arriving at Cape Cod and signing the Mayflower Compact. They arrived at Plymouth Rock in December. |
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13th |
80th anniversary of the premiere of Walt Disney
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17th |
95th anniversary of the birth of Rock Hudson, American film and television actor. |
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20th |
45th anniversary of the death of General Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (1939?75). |
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21st |
75th anniversary of the birth of American actress Golde Hawn |
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21st |
100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Dublin during the Irish War of Indpendence |
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22nd |
100th anniversary of the birth of British actress Anne Crawford |
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23rd |
75th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg War Trials in Germany. |
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25th |
80th anniversary of the first flight of the de Havilland Mosquito multi-role combat plane. |
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27th |
80th anniversary of the birth of Bruce Lee, American-born film actor, known for his martial arts films. |
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28th |
500th anniversary of Ferdinand Magellan reaching the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Magellan and becoming the first European to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific. |
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75th anniversary of the birth of American acrtress and singer Bette Midler |
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5th |
150th anniversary of the death of French author Alexandre Dumas the Elder, author of the Count of Monte Christo and Three Musketeers |
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17th |
250th anniversary of the birth of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven |
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21st |
80th anniversary of the death of George S. Patton, U.S. Army general who commanded the 3rdand 7th U.S. Armies in Europe during WWII. |
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21st |
80th anniversary of the death of F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer. Author of the Great Gatsby. |
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300th anniversary of the birth of Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender also known as Bonnie Prince Charlie |
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