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Eddie Little Sky, also known as Edward Little, was an American actor. A citizen of the Oglala Lakota tribe Eddie had parts in 36 feature films and over 60 television shows, mainly …
Eddie Little Sky, American actor (born 1926)
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic…
Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
Sir Georg Solti was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-serving mu…
Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor and director (born 1912)
Percy Howard Newby CBE was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. He was the first winner of the Booker Prize, his novel Something to Answer For having received the in…
P. H. Newby, English author and broadcaster (born 1918)
Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa za Banga, often shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or Mobutu and also known by his initials MSS, was a Congolese politician and military officer who wa…
Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (born 1930)
Derek Wyn Taylor was a British journalist, writer, publicist and record producer. He is best known for his role as press officer to the Beatles, with whom he worked in 1964 and the…
Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (born 1932)
Don Richard Ashburn, also known by the nicknames "Putt-Putt", "the Tilden Flash", and "Whitey", was an American professional baseball player and television sports commentator. He p…
Richie Ashburn, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1927)
General Sir John Winthrop Hackett, was an Australian-born British soldier, painter, university administrator, author and in later life, a commentator.
John Hackett, Australian-English general and author (born 1910)
Oliver Burgess Meredith was an American actor and filmmaker whose career encompassed radio, theater, film, and television.
Burgess Meredith, American actor, director, and producer (born 1907)
Joseph Wilfred Camille "The Eel" Henry was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger/centre who played for the New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, and St. Louis Blues in th…
Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1933)
Hannah Adelle Weiner was an American poet who is often grouped with the Language poets because of the prominent place she assumed in the poetics of that group.
Hannah Weiner, American poet (born 1928)
Judith Josephine Grossman, who took the pen-name Judith Merril around 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist, and one of the …
Judith Merril, American-Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist (born 1923)
Georges Guétary, born Yorgos Lambros was a French singer, dancer, cabaret performer and film actor, best known for his role in the 1951 musical An American in Paris.
Georges Guétary, Egyptian-French actor, singer, and dancer (born 1915)
Georgios Mitsibonas was a Greek football player during the 1980s and 1990s.
Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (born 1962)
Richard T. Gland, better known by his ring name Dick "Bulldog" Brower, was an American professional wrestler.
Bulldog Brower, American wrestler (born 1933)
Richard Bernard Skelton was an American entertainer best known for his national radio and television shows between 1937 and 1971, especially as host of the television program The R…
Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (born 1913)
James Witherspoon was an American jump blues and jazz singer.
Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (born 1920)
Andrew Phillip Cunanan was an American spree killer who murdered five people over three months from April 27 to July 15, 1997. His victims include Italian fashion designer Gianni V…
American spree killer Andrew Cunanan murdered Jeffrey Trail, a former friend and a Gulf War veteran, who became the firs
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), officially the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction…
The Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons in
Deep Blue was a customized IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer for chess-playing designed by computer scientist Feng-hsiung Hsu. It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to …
Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in six games to become the first chess computer to win a match against a world champio
Joanne Rowling, better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, philanthropist, producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for writing Harry Potter, a seven-vol…
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Diana, Princess of Wales, was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles III and mother of Princes William and Harry. Her activism and glamour made her…
Diana, Princess of Wales (pictured), her partner Dodi Fayed, and their driver were killed in a car crash in Paris.
An earthquake struck northern Iran's Khorasan Province in the vicinity of Qaen on May 10, 1997, at 07:57 UTC. The largest in the area since 1990, the earthquake registered 7.3 on t…
An earthquake registering 7
The First Congo War, also known as Africa's First World War, was a civil and international military conflict that lasted from 24 October 1996 to 16 May 1997, primarily taking place…
The First Congo War came to an end when Laurent-Désiré Kabila proclaimed himself president of Zaire, which was also rena