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Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. 1820 – 10 March 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the US Civil War. After escaping from captivity, she made thirteen missions to rescue some seventy slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage. (read more...)
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Thomas Young (June 13, 1773 – May 10, 1829) was an English scientist, researcher, physician and polymath. In addition to contributing to the fields of optics, physics and physiology. He wrote articles on linguistics and egyptology for Encyclopedia Britannica. (read more...)
- ...that former child actor Richard Eyer, who played the boy who runs "afowl" of the goose in William Wyler's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, is now an elementary school teacher in Bishop, California?
- ...that 1985 NCAA hurdling champion Thomas Wilcher won the Michigan High School Athletic Association team track & field championship three consecutive times, both as an athlete and a coach?
- ...that after winning three medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a 16-year-old, Anita Nall retired from competitive swimming in 2000 due to chronic fatigue syndrome?
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Births
- 1631 - John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700)
- 1646 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)
- 1743 - Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
- 1871 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
- 1883 - Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
- 1902 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
- 1919 - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (d. 1990)
- 1921 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)
- 1946 - Bill Clinton, American president
- 1969 - Matthew Perry, Canadian actor
Deaths
- 14 - Augustus, (pictured) Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
- 1580 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508)
- 1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
- 1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
- 1929 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872)
- 1959 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1880)
- 1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
- 1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
- 1994 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (b. 1901)
- 2001 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)
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