660 BC – Traditional date for the founding of Japan.
1937 – Sacagawea gives birth to Pempey (Jean Baptiste Charboneeau) prior to departure on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. William Clark, and his older brother George Rogers Clark (an American Revolutionary War hero in the Northwest Territory), are distant relatives.
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1858 – The Virgin Mary appears to St. Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous) in Lourdes, France.
1937 – GM signs first-ever auto workers contract.
1945 – President Franklin Roosevelt leaves Yalta with daughter Ann. Roosevelt dies three moths later.
FAMOUS BIRTHS
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1847 – Thomas Alva Edison is born in Milan, OH. Edison would go on to hold 1200 patents. Edison's father was Canadian who escaped to the U.S. after taking part in the unsuccessful Mackenzie Rebellion on 1837.
FAMOUS DEATHS
55 – Tiberius Cladius Caesar Britannicus (yes him), heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome, clearing the way for Nero to become Emporer. Nero would be the last emporer in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
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1650 – French philosopher, writer and mathematician, René Descartes ("I think, therefore I am") stops thinking.
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1976 – Lee J. Cobb, American actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront, Death of a Salesman) dies in Woodland Hills, CA.
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2012 – Whitney Elizabeth Houston, American singer and actress dies at 48 in a tragic story. She was a beautiful talented woman ruined by a the wrong man and drugs.
1976 – Lee J. Cobb, American actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront, Death of a Salesman) dies in Woodland Hills, CA.
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2012 – Whitney Elizabeth Houston, American singer and actress dies at 48 in a tragic story. She was a beautiful talented woman ruined by a the wrong man and drugs.
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