2007 |
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South African reggae singer Lucky Dube , 43, dies after being shot in an apparent carjacking attempt in Johannesburg.
(photo credit: Shanachie)
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| 2002 |
Screenwriter John Meredyth Lucas, who wrote episodes of Star Trek, Mannix, The Six Million Dollar Man, and many others, dies of leukemia at age 83.
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1988 |
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Delta blues guitarist-singer Son House dies at age 86, of alzheimer's disease, in Detroit, Michigan.
(photo credit: Sony)
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| 1978 |
TV and film actor Gig Young commits suicide in New York City, at age 64.
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| 1977 |
The supersonic Concorde jetliner touches down at New York City for the first time.
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| 1973 |
Grammy® winning singer Christopher Cross marries Roseann Harrison (they would divorce in 1982).
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| 1973 |
Pogo cartoonist Walt Kelly dies of complications from diabetes at age 60, in Los Angeles.
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| 1960 |
The US begins an embargo on exports to Cuba.
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| 1959 |
The Miracle Worker opens on Broadway, starring 12-year old actress Patty Duke.
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| 1954 |
Britain agrees to end its occupation of the Suez Canal.
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| 1944 |
The US Navy admits African-American females into the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) program.
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| 1937 |
Women's Day magazine is first published.
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| 1812 |
French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte begin to retreat from Moscow.
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| 1781 |
Lord Cornwallis' British forces surrender at Yorktown, VA, as the American Revolution winds down.
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| 1745 |
Gulliver's Travels author Jonathan Swift dies.
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| 1314 |
Frederick III is named King of Germany.
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