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Selected anniversaries
Births
1784 -
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(d. 1860)
1841 -
Henry Morton Stanley
, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904) (
pictured
)
1873 -
Colette
, French writer (d. 1954)
1912 -
Jackson Pollock
, American painter (d. 1956)
1948 -
Mikhail Baryshnikov
, Russian dancer
1981 -
Elijah Wood
, American actor
Deaths
814 -
Charlemagne
(b. 742)
1547 - King
Henry VIII of England
(b. 1491)
1596 - Sir
Francis Drake
, English explorer and soldier
1939 -
William Butler Yeats
, Irish writer,
Nobel Prize Laureate
(b. 1865)
1960 -
Zora Neale Hurston
, American author (b. 1891)
1986 - Crew of
Space Shuttle Challenger
:
Greg Jarvis
(b. 1944)
Christa McAuliffe
(b. 1948)
Ronald McNair
(b. 1950)
Ellison Onizuka
(b. 1946)
Judith Resnik
(b. 1949)
Francis R. Scobee
(b. 1939)
Michael J. Smith
(b. 1945)
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