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Bianca Jagger is a Nicaraguan social activist, human rights advocate, and a former actress. She gained international prominence in the 1970s through her marriage to Mick Jagger, t…
Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan-American model, actress, and activist
Robert Machray Ward was an American stage and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing the recurring role of fire marshal Dobbins in the American sitcom television s…
Robert Machray, American actor (died 2025)
The Battle of Poljana took place outside of Poljana, near the town of Prevalje in Yugoslavia between the Yugoslav Army and a column of 30,000 retreating Axis soldiers, which consis…
World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia
The Levant Crisis, also known as the Damascus Crisis, the Syrian Crisis, or the Levant Confrontation, was a military confrontation that took place between British and French forces…
Beginning of the Levant Crisis between Britain and France in Syria
Syrians are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, most of whom have Arabic, especially its Levantine and Mesopotamian dialects, as a mother tongue. The cultu…
Syrian demonstrators in Damascus are fired upon by French troops injuring twelve, leading to the Levant Crisis
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was a German Nazi politician and military leader. He was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel from 1929 to 1945. He was a leading member of the Nazi …
World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody
The Flensburg Government, also known as the Flensburg Cabinet, the Dönitz Government, or the Schwerin von Krosigk Cabinet, was the rump government of Nazi Germany during a period o…
World War II: Germany's Flensburg Government under Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are arrested by British for
Kurt Loder is an American entertainment critic, author, columnist and television personality. He served in the 1980s as editor at Rolling Stone, during a tenure that Reason later c…
Kurt Loder, American journalist, author, and critic
Jimmie Dale Gilmore is an American country singer-songwriter currently living in Austin, Texas.
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American country singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and producer
Robin Victory in Europe Strasser is an American actress, best known for her role as Dorian Lord on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live.
Robin Strasser, American actress
Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, …
Keith Jarrett, American pianist and composer
Combat is a purposeful violent conflict between multiple combatants with the intent to harm the opposition. Combat may be armed or unarmed. Combat is resorted to either as a method…
First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber
Stephen Orr Spurrier is an American retired football coach and player, who is also commonly referred to by his nicknames, the Head Ball Coach or the ol' Ball Coach. Spurrier was a …
Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach
Mark Arnold Wainberg, was a Canadian HIV/AIDS researcher and HIV/AIDS activist. He was the director of the McGill University AIDS Centre at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital and…
Mark Wainberg, Canadian researcher and HIV/AIDS activist (died 2017)
Edouard S. L. L. J. Baldewijns is a Belgian politician, member of the Chamber of Representatives and Flemish Government minister. A member of the Belgian Socialist Party and its su…
Eddy Baldewijns, Belgian politician
Gopalkrishna Devadas Gandhi is a former administrator and diplomat who served as the 22nd Governor of West Bengal from 2004 to 2009. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C. Raj…
Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Indian civil servant and politician, 22nd Governor of West Bengal
August Wilson was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pitts…
August Wilson, American author and playwright (died 2005)
Hilda Pérez Carvajal is a Venezuelan biologist from the Central University of Venezuela. She was president of the Venezuelan Society of Parasitology at the end of the 1980s. Perez …
Hilda Pérez Carvajal, Venezuelan biologist
Alan James Ball was an English professional football player and manager. He won the 1966 World Cup with England and scored more than 180 league goals in a career spanning 22 years.…
Alan Ball, Jr
Ian Patrick McLagan was an English keyboardist, best known as a member of the rock bands Small Faces and Faces. He also collaborated with the Rolling Stones and led his own band fr…
Ian McLagan, English keyboard player and songwriter (died 2014)
Lars Nils "Lasse" Berghagen was a Swedish singer and songwriter. He represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 with the song "Jennie, Jennie". He was also known for pre…
Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2023)
David Earl Lopes was an American second baseman, coach and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for four teams from 1972 to 1987, best known for his ten seasons with t…
Davey Lopes, American baseball player, coach, and manager
Robert Clark Seger is an American retired singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded with the groups Bob Seger and the…
Bob Seger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was one of the founding members of the bands Planxty and Moving Hearts and has had signific…
Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist