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Date: 19940901
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Born today:
Victor Herbert 1859 Fedor Chaliapin 1873 John Ford 1895 Clark Gable 1901 Langston Hughes 1902 S.J. Perelman 1904 Renata Tebaldi 1922 Boris Yeltsin 1931 Don Everly 1937 Garrett Morris 1937 Sherman Hemsley 1938 Princess Stephanie of Monaco 1965 Lisa Marie Presley 1968
Died today:
Rene Descartes 1650 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1851 King Carlos I Portugal murdered 1908 Piet Mondrian 1944 Willie Hoppe 1959 Buster Keaton 1966 Hedda Hopper 1966
Historical events:
1709-Alexander Selkirk, model for Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, rescued from Juan ...
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