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Date: 19940901
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Date: JULY 27
Born today:
Charlotte Corday 1768 Alexandre Dumas (fils) 1824 Hillaire Belloc 1870 Selwyn Lloyd 1904 Leo Durocher 1905 Mario Del Monaco 1915 Keenan Wynn 1916 Norman Lear 1922 Brock Peters 1927 Robert Holmes a Court 1937 Bobbie Gentry 1944 Peggy Fleming 1948 Betty Thomas 1948 Maureen McGovern 1949
Died today:
King James I of Aragon 1276 Gertrude Stein 1946 Antonio Salazar 1970 Shah Mohammad Pahlavi Iran 1980 William Wyler 1981 James Mason 1984 George Gallup 1984
Historical events:
1586-Sir Walter Raleigh imports first tobacco from USA to England. ...
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