What happend on 19. November in History
In our data base we found 310 events happened on 19. November:
• 461: Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer. [category: Events]
• 1095: The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins. [category: Events]
• 1464: Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526) [category: Births]
• 1493: Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico). [category: Events]
• 1557: Bona Sforza, Polish wife of Sigismund I the Old (b. 1494) [category: Deaths]
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1563: Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1626)
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1577: Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
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1581: Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (b. 1554)
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1597: Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (d. 1660)
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1600: Charles I of England (d. 1649)
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1600: Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian and diplomat (d. 1669)
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1617: Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1655)
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1630: Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
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1649: Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
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1665: Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)
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1672: John Wilkins, English bishop (b. 1614)
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1692: Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright (b. 1642)
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1700: Jean-Antoine Nollet, French priest and physicist (d. 1770)
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1703: Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner
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1711: Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and polymath (d. 1765)
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1722: Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)
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1722: Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
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1723: Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
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1752: George Rogers Clark, American military officer (d. 1818)
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1770: Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
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1772: William Nelson, American politician (b. 1711)
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1773: James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1722)
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1785: Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
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1794: The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
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1798: Wolfe Tone, Irish general (b. 1763)
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1802: Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (d. 1866)
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1804: Pietro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)
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1805: Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and engineer, developed the Suez Canal (d. 1894)
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1808: Janez Bleiweis, Slovenian journalist and politician (d. 1881)
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1810: Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer (b. 1725)
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1812: Karl Schwarz, German theologian (d. 1885)
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1816: Warsaw University is established.
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1822: Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
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1823: Alvin Smith, American brother of Joseph Smith (b. 1798)
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1828: Rani Lakshmibai, Indian queen (d. 1858)
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1828: Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)
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1831: James A. Garfield, American politician, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)
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1833: Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (d. 1911)
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1834: Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
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1843: Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)
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1847: The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
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1850: Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician, 9th Vice President of the United States (b. 1780)
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1859: Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (d. 1935)
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1862: Billy Sunday, American baseball player and evangelist (d. 1935)
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1863: American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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1868: Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
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1875: Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
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1876: James Steen, American water polo player (d. 1949)
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1876: Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)
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1877: Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (d. 1947)
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1881: A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
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1883: Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (d. 1957)
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1883: Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German-English engineer (b. 1823)
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1885: Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
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1887: James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
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1887: Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
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1888: José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (d. 1942)
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1889: Clifton Webb, American actor (d. 1966)
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1892: Huw T. Edwards, Welsh politician (d. 1970)
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1893: René Voisin, French trumpet player (d. 1952)
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1894: Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
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1895: Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964)
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1895: Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
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1897: Quentin Roosevelt, American pilot (d. 1918)
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1897: William Seymour Tyler, American historian (b. 1810)
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1898: Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist (d. 2003)
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1898: Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924)
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1899: Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian scholar (d. 1992)
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1899: Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)
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1900: Anna Seghers, German author (d. 1983)
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1900: Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey manager (d. 1985)
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1900: Mikhail Lavrentyev, Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist (d. 1980)
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1904: Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., American murderer (d. 1971)
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1905: Tommy Dorsey, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (The California Ramblers) (d. 1956)
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1906: Franz Schädle, German SS officer (d. 1945)
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1907: Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
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1909: Peter Drucker, American theorist (d. 2005)
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1910: Adrian Conan Doyle, English race car driver and author (d. 1970)
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1911: The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
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1912: George Emil Palade, Romanian biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
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1912: First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
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1915: Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
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1915: Joe Hill, American activist (b. 1879)
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1916: Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
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1917: Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
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1918: Joseph F. Smith, American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
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1919: Alan Young, English-Canadian actor
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1919: Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director (d. 2006)
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1920: Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)
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1921: Peter Ruckman, American pastor and educator
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1921: Roy Campanella, American baseball player (d. 1993)
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1922: Rajko Mitic, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2008)
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1922: Salil Chowdhury, Indian composer, poet, playwright, and director (d. 1995)
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1922: Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist (d. 1999)
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1924: Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (d. 2011)
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1924: William Russell, English actor
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1924: Thomas H. Ince, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1882)
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1925: Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-English sociologist
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1926: Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright (d. 2011)
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1926: Jeane Kirkpatrick, American diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2006)
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1926: Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (d. 2012)
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1929: Norman Cantor, Canadian scholar (d. 2004)
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1929: Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian singer-songwriter
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1930: Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (d. 2011)
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1931: Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
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1933: Jerry Sheindlin, American judge and author
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1933: Larry King, American journalist and talk show host
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1934: Kurt Hamrin, Swedish footballer
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1934: Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Soviet-Russian footballer (d. 2011)
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1935: Jack Welch, American businessman and author
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1935: Michael Till, English priest (d. 2012)
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1935: Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist (d. 1990)
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1936: Dick Cavett, American talk show host
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1936: Ray Collins, American singer (The Mothers of Invention) (d. 2012)
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1936: Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
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1938: Ted Turner, American businessman, founded Turner Broadcasting System
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1938: Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
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1939: Emil Constantinescu, Romanian politician, 3rd President of Romania
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1939: Richard Zare, American chemist
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1939: Tom Harkin, American politician
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1941: Dan Haggerty, American actor
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1941: Tommy Thompson, American politician, 42nd Governor of Wisconsin
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1941: World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
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1942: Calvin Klein, American fashion designer, founded Calvin Klein Inc.
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1942: Sharon Olds, American poet
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1942: Bruno Schulz, Polish painter and critic (b. 1892)
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1942: Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda.
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1942: World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
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1943: Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-American baseball player (d. 1990)
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1943: Fred Lipsius, American saxophonist (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
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1943: Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (b. 1895)
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1943: Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
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1944: Agnes Baltsa, Greek soprano
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1944: Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
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1944: World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
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1944: World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
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1945: Bobby Tolan, American baseball player
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1945: Hans Monderman, Dutch engineer (d. 2008)
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1946: Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
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1947: Anfinn Kallsberg, Faroese politician, 10th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
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1947: Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager
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1947: Lamar S. Smith, American politician
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1949: Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster
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1949: Amand Theis, German footballer
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1949: Nigel Bennett, English actor
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1949: James Ensor, Belgian painter (b. 1860)
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1950: Peter Biyiasas, Greek-Canadian chess player
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1950: US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe
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1951: Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, English politician
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1951: Zeenat Aman, Indian actress
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1952: Stephen Soldz, American psychoanalyst and activist
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1952: Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
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1953: Robert Beltran, American actor
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1953: Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
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1954: Abdul Fatah Khalil Al-Sisi, Egyptian general and politician
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1954: Kathleen Quinlan, American actress
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1954: Rejean Lemelin, Canadian ice hockey player
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1954: Walter Bartley Wilson, English football manager (b. 1870)
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1954: Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
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1955: Sam Hamm, American screenwriter
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1955: National Review publishes its first issue.
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1956: Ann Curry, American journalist
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1956: Eileen Collins, American astronaut
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1956: Glynnis O'Connor, American actress
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1956: Francis L. Sullivan, English actor (b. 1903)
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1957: Ofra Haza, Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2000)
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1957: Tom Virtue, American actor
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1958: Michael Wilbon, American sportscaster and columnist
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1958: Terrence C. Carson, American actor and singer
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1959: Allison Janney, American actress
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1959: Joseph Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1892)
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1959: The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
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1960: Matt Sorum, American drummer (The Cult, Guns 'N Roses, Velvet Revolver, Slash's Snakepit, Camp Freddy, and Neurotic Outsiders)
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1960: Miss Elizabeth, American professional wrestling manager (d. 2003)
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1960: Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)
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1961: Jim L. Mora, American football player and coach
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1961: Meg Ryan, American actress and producer
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1962: Dodie Boy Peñalosa, Filipino boxer
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1962: George Leventhal, American politician
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1962: Jodie Foster, American actress, director, and producer
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1962: Sean Parnell, American politician, 12th Governor of Alaska
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1962: Grigol Robakidze, Georgian author (b. 1882)
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1963: Jon Potter, English field hockey player
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1963: Terry Farrell, American actress
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1963: Zsuzsanna Jánosi, Hungarian fencer
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1963: Henry B. Richardson, American archer (b. 1889)
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1965: Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor
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1965: Laurent Blanc, French footballer
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1966: Gail Devers, American runner
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1966: Jason Scott Lee, American actor and martial artist
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1966: Kakhaber Kacharava, Georgian footballer
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1966: Rocco DiSpirito, American chef
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1966: Shmuley Boteach, American rabbi and author
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1967: Charles J. Watters, American army officer, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
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1967: The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
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1969: Erika Alexander, American actress
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1969: Philippe Adams, Belgian race car driver
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1969: Richard Virenque, French cyclist
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1969: Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
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1969: Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
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1971: Alice Peacock, American singer
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1971: Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer
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1971: Justin Chancellor, English bass player (Tool and Peach)
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1971: Naoko Mori, Japanese-English actress and singer
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1972: Sandrine Holt, Canadian actress
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1973: Billy Currington, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1973: Django Haskins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Old Ceremony)
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1973: Ryukishi07, Japanese author
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1973: Savion Glover, American dancer and choreographer
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1974: Arun Vijay, Indian actor
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1974: George Brunies, American trombone player (b. 1902)
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1975: Sushmita Sen, Indian model and actress, Miss Universe 1994
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1975: Toby Bailey, American basketball player
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1975: Roger D. Branigin, American politician, 42nd Governor of Indiana (b. 1902)
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1976: Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
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1976: Jack Dorsey, American businessman, co-founded Twitter
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1976: Jun Shibata, Japanese singer-songwriter
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1976: Petr Sýkora, Czech ice hockey player
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1976: Robin Dunne, Canadian actor
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1976: Stylianos Venetidis, Greek football player
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1976: Basil Spence, Scottish architect, designed the Coventry Cathedral (b. 1907)
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1977: Kerri Strug, American gymnast
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1977: TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 130.
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1978: Matt Dusk, Canadian singer
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1978: Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech discus thrower
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1979: John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
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1979: Keith Buckley, American singer-songwriter (Every Time I Die and The Damned Things)
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1979: Larry Johnson, American football player
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1979: Leam Richardson, English footballer
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1979: Ryan Howard, American baseball player
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1979: Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
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1980: Adele Silva, English actress
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1980: Courtney Anderson, American football player
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1980: Otis Grigsby, American football player
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1980: Vladimir Radmanovic, Serbian basketball player
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1981: DJ Tukutz, South Korean DJ, producer, and songwriter (Epik High)
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1981: Marcus Banks, American basketball player
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1983: Chandra Crawford, Canadian skier
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1983: Daria Werbowy, Ukrainian-Canadian model
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1983: Tom Evans, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
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1984: Dawid Kucharski, Polish footballer
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1984: San Juanico Disaster: A series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
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1985: Alex Mack, American football player
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1985: Chris Eagles, English footballer
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1985: Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (b. 1907)
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1985: Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
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1985: Pennzoil wins a US $10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States
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1985: Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
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1986: Jeannie Ortega, American singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer
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1986: Jessicah Schipper, Australian swimmer
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1986: Milan Smiljanić, Serbian footballer
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1986: Veronica Scott, American fashion designer
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1988: Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player
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1988: Christina Onassis, American businesswoman (b. 1950)
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1988: Serbian communist representative Slobodan Milosevic publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
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1989: John McCarthy, Australian footballer (d. 2012)
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1989: Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper
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1989: Tyga, American rapper
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1989: Grant Adcox, American race car driver (b. 1950)
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1990: Benedikt Schmid, German footballer
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1990: Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
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1990: Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
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1992: Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
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1992: Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
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1993: Kerim Frei, Austrian footballer
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1993: Suso, Spanish footballer
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1994: Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer
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1994: In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
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1996: Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
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1997: McCaughey septuplets, American septuplets
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1998: Alan J. Pakula, American director (b. 1928)
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1998: Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist (b. 1920)
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1998: Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
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1998: Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
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1999: Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
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2001: Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter (b. 1924)
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2002: The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
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2003: Ian Geoghegan, Australian race car driver (b. 1940)
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2004: George Canseco, Filipino composer (b. 1934)
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2004: Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
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2004: John Vane, English pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
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2004: Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
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2004: Terry Melcher, American singer-songwriter and producer (Bruce & Terry) (b. 1942)
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2005: Erik Balling, Danish director (b. 1924)
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2007: Dick Wilson, American actor (b. 1916)
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2007: Mike Gregory, English rugby player (b. 1964)
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2008: Gregory Bryant-Bey, American murderer (b. 1955)
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2009: Daul Kim, South Korean model (b. 1989)
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2010: Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1952)
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2010: The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.
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2012: Boris Strugatskiy, Russian author (b. 1933)
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2012: John Hefin, Welsh director and producer (b. 1941)
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2012: Pete La Roca, American drummer (b. 1938)
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2012: Warren Rudman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
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_: Christian Feast Day:
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_: Day of Missile Forces and Artillery (Russia, Belorussia)
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_: Discovery of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
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_: Flag Day (Brazil)
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_: Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize)
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_: International Men's Day (Australia, Canada, Ghana, Hungary, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Malta, Singapore, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States)
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_: Liberation Day (Mali)
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_: November 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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_: Obadiah (Eastern Catholic Church)
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_: Raphael Kalinowski
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_: Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician
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