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115 years ago today, Django Reinhardt, a Belgian-French Manouche or Sinti jazz guitarist and composer, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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185 years ago today, the New Zealand Company’s first settler ship, the Aurora, arrived at Petone to found the settlement that would become Wellington. (nzhistory.govt.nz)
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35 years ago today, Kelly Rohrbach, an American actress and model, was born. She is best known for her role as C. J. Parker in the film Baywatch. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, Jeff Koons, an American artist, was born. He is recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects. (en.wikipedia.org)
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250 years ago today, Yemelyan Pugachev, an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks and the leader of the Pugachev's Rebellion, was executed. In Moscow, he was decapitated and then drawn and quartered in public. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, the album Blood on the Tracks by American folk and rock singer, songwriter & musician Bob Dylan was released. (feddit.nl)
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80 years ago today, Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President. (en.wikipedia.org)
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250 years ago today, André-Marie Ampère, a French physicist and mathematician, was born. He was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism. (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, Ernesto Cardenal, a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, "The Millionaire" TV series premiered on CBS. (en.wikipedia.org)
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35 years ago today, Rajneesh, an Indian godman, philosopher, mystic and founder of the Rajneesh movement, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, Kevin Costner, an American actor and filmmaker, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today, the first prototype of the Airbus A380, a very large wide-body airliner, was unveiled in Toulouse. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Engelbert Marketsch, a German criminal transferred from Mauthausen, became the last prisoner to be assigned a serial number in Auschwitz, number 202499. (en.wikipedia.org)
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5 years ago today, the album Circles by the rapper, singer and producer Mac Miller was released. (feddit.nl)
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80 years ago today, after the beginning of the Red Army's Vistula–Oder Offensive, Soviet troops entered the Warsaw ruins, and liberated the suburbs from German occupation. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Australian troops advanced along the northern part of Bougainville Island (in present-day Papua New Guinea) and began fighting Japanese forces in the Battle of Tsimba Ridge. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, USS Nautilus' first Commanding Officer, Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson, ordered all lines cast off and signaled the memorable and historic message, "Underway on nuclear power." (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, Duane Hanson, an American artist and sculptor, was born in Minnesota. (en.wikipedia.org)
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420 years ago today, the first edition of "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid. (en.wikipedia.org)
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245 years ago today, the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, a naval battle, took place off the southern coast of Portugal during the American Revolutionary War. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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170 years ago today, Eleanor Marx, the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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55 years ago today, Dilma Rousseff, a member of the Brazilian guerrilla movement against the military government, was arrested. In 2011 she became the first woman to be president of Brazil. (files.catbox.moe)
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She was labelled the “Joan of Arc” of the movement when she was arrested in 1970

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35 years ago today, the album Reading, Writing and Arithmetic by the Pop Rock band The Sundays was released. (feddit.nl)
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175 years ago today, Sofya Kovalevskaya, a Russian mathematician, was born. She made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. (en.wikipedia.org)
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