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75 years ago today, Mark Spitz, an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion, was born. He was the most successful athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today, Arthur Miller, an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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25 years ago today, the album Supreme Clientele by the rapper Ghostface Killah from NY was released (feddit.nl)
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75 years ago today, Frank McNamara and his attorney, Ralph Schneider, founded Diners Club International, the first independent payment card company in the world, with $1.5 million in initial capital. (en.wikipedia.org)
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300 years ago today, Peter the Great died. He was the Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today, Hatun Sürücü, a Kurdish-Turkish woman living in Germany, was murdered at the age of 23 in Berlin, by her youngest brother, in an honor killing and sororicide. (en.wikipedia.org)
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185 years ago today, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. It is a document of central importance to the history of New Zealand, its constitution, and its national mythos. (en.wikipedia.org)
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160 years ago today, Finland established its modern system of secular municipalities, separate from church parishes. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Bob Marley, a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today, Michalina Wisłocka, a Polish gynecologist, sexologist, and author of Sztuka kochania, died. It was the first guide to sexual life in a communist country. (en.wikipedia.org)
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55 years ago today, Gabrielle Anwar, a British-American actress, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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470 years ago today, because he opposed Catholicism, John Rogers was burned at the stake as the first English Protestant executed for heresy under the reign of Mary I. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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80 years ago today, the Yalta Conference started. It was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the US, the UK and the USSR to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. (en.wikipedia.org)
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30 years ago today, in mission STS-63, astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle. (en.wikipedia.org)
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35 years ago today, state president of South Africa F. W. De Klerk unbanned the ANC and other illegal organisations and announced the beginning of formal negotiations for a peaceful settlement. (en.wikipedia.org)
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300 years ago today, J. S. Bach led the first performance of his chorale cantata Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, based on Luther's paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis. (en.wikipedia.org)
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90 years ago today, Leonarde Keeler conducted the first use of his invention, the Keeler Polygraph—otherwise known as the lie detector. (en.wikipedia.org)
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125 years ago today, Jānis Lipke, a Latvian rescuer of Jews in Riga in World War II from the Holocaust in Latvia, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, Preity Zinta, an Indian actress and entrepreneur, was born. She is primarily known for her work in Hindi films. (en.wikipedia.org)
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435 years ago today, Lady Anne Clifford, an English peeress, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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5 years ago today, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). (en.wikipedia.org)
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10 years ago today, Colleen McCullough, an Australian author, died. She is known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Tom Selleck, an American actor, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, the Soviet Red Army liberated about 7,000 prisoners left behind by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp. (en.wikipedia.org)
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140 years ago today, the siege of Khartoum ended as Mahdist forces defeated the Egyptian garrison and captured the city. (en.wikipedia.org)
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