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Irving Howe was an American author, literary and social critic, and a key figure in the democratic socialist movement in the U.S. He co-founded and served as longtime editor of Dis…
Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (born 1920)
Dorothy Ann Todd was an English film, television and stage actress who achieved international fame when she starred in The Seventh Veil (1945). From 1949 to 1957 she was married to…
Ann Todd, English actress and producer (born 1909)
Avram Davidson was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hug…
Avram Davidson, American soldier and author (born 1923)
Penelope Gilliatt was an English novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film critic. As one of the main film critics for The New Yorker magazine in the 1960s and 1970s, Gi…
Penelope Gilliatt, English novelist, short story writer, and critic (born 1932)
Zeno Colò was a champion alpine ski racer from Italy. Born in La Consuma (Abetone), Tuscany, he was among the top ski racers of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Zeno Colò, Italian Olympic alpine skier (born1920)
William Randolph Hearst Jr. was an American businessman, newspaper publisher and member of the wealthy Hearst family.
William Randolph Hearst, Jr
Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, was a Sudanese literary writer, poet and diplomat. He is considered one of the most important Sudanese poets of the first generation after the country's indepe…
Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese poet and diplomat (born 1933)
Zeno Colò was a champion alpine ski racer from Italy. Born in La Consuma (Abetone), Tuscany, he was among the top ski racers of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Zeno Colò, Italian Olympic alpine skier (born 1920)
Marvin Earl Johnson was an American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist. He was influential in the development of the Motown style of music, primarily for the song "Come to Me," whi…
Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1938)
Mieczysław Horszowski was a Polish and American pianist who had one of the longest careers in the history of the performing arts.
Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish-American pianist and composer (born 1892)
William David Conn was an American professional boxer and Light Heavyweight Champion famed for his fights with Joe Louis. He had a professional boxing record of 63 wins, 11 losses …
Billy Conn, American boxer (born 1917)
Le Sony'r Ra, better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, proli…
Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1914)
Spuds MacKenzie is a bull terrier dog character used for an extensive advertising campaign marketing Bud Light beer in the late 1980s. The Spuds MacKenzie mascot and campaign was t…
Honey Tree Evil Eye, or, Spuds MacKenzie, Bud Light Bull Terrier mascot (born 1983)
John Robert Mize, nicknamed "Big Jawn" and "the Big Cat", was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis…
Johnny Mize, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1913)
Tahar Djaout was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group.
Tahar Djaout, Algerian journalist, writer and poet (born 1954)
Yeoh Ghim Seng was a Singaporean politician who served as Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore between 1970 and 1988.
Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (born 1918)
Bernard Evslin was an American author best known for his adaptations of Greek mythology.
Bernard Evslin, American writer (born 1922)
Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British people of either African or Afro-Caribbean descent. The term Black British developed in the 1950s, referring to the Black B…
Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager, was murdered while waiting for a bus in Eltham, London, leading to cultural
The Provisional Irish Republican Army, officially known as the Irish Republican Army and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to e…
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in London's financial district in Bishopsgate, killing one
The Zambia national football team represents Zambia in men's association football and is governed by the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ). During the 1980s, they were known as …
Thirty people died, including players and staff of the Zambia football team and the crew, in a plane crash en route to p
"One for the Road" is the final episode of the American television series Cheers. It was the 271st episode of the series and the twenty-sixth episode of the eleventh season of the …
"One for the Road", the series finale of American television sitcom Cheers, was watched by 42
Katina P was a Greek oil tanker carrying 72,000 tonnes of oil which sank off the Mozambique coast on 26 April 1992.
The Katina P is deliberately run aground off Maputo, Mozambique, and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean
The Westray Mine was a Canadian coal mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia. Westray was owned and operated by Curragh Resources Incorporated, which obtained both provincial and federal gov…
Westray Mine disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada
Li Hongzhi is a Chinese religious leader. He is the founder and leader of Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, a United States–based new religious movement. Li began his public teachings of …
Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China