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Monday May 02, 2022. Today is day #122 with 243 days left in 2022.

Random celebrity birth: In 1952 Scottish singer Isla St Clair.

Random celebrity death: In 2000 Trinidadian and Tobagonian musician Sundarlal Popo Bahora.

Random historical event: In 1949 American author Arthur Miller won the Pulitzer Prize for “Death of a Salesman”.

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Friday December 24, 2021. Today is day #358 with 7 days left in 2021.

Random celebrity birth: In 1958 Canadian musician Diane Tell.

Random celebrity death: In 1994 Italian actor Rossano Brazzi.

Random historical event: In 1971 Peruvian teenager Juliane Margaret Koepcke was the sole survivor of the crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Amazon rainforest and was found by rescuers 10 days later.

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Saturday June 19, 2021. Today is day #170 with 195 days left in 2021.

Random celebrity birth: In 1985 Ethiopian athlete Dire Tune.

Random celebrity death: In 2013 Czech musician Filip Topol.

Random historical event: In 2018 the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the 10 millionth U.S. patent.

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Monday April 19, 2021. Today is day #109 with 256 days left in 2021.

Random celebrity birth: In 1960 Armenian musician Ara Gevorgyan.

Random celebrity death: In 2007 French actor Jean-Pierre Cassel.

Random historical event: In 1904 a huge fire destroyed most of the downtown area of Toronto, Canada.

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Thursday April 01, 2021. Today is day #91 with 274 days left in 2021.

Random celebrity birth: In 1992 Chinese gymnast Deng Linlin.

Random celebrity death: In 2001 Vietnamese musician Trịnh Công Sơn.

Random historical event: In 1748 Spanish military engineer Roque Joaquin de Alcubierre led an excavation for finding ancient artifacts in Campania, Italy and stumbled upon the ruins of a city which was later identified as Pompeii.

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Nov 25 2019. Today is day #329 with 36 days left in 2019.

Random celebrity birth: In 1924 Japanese poet Takaaki Yoshimoto.

Random celebrity death: In 2015 Norwegian jazz musician Svein Christiansen.

Random historical event: In 1867 Swedish chemist and inventor, Alfred Nobel received a patent for dynamite.

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Mar 11, 2019. Today is day #70 with 295 days left in 2019.

Random celebrity birth: In 1979 US musicians and twin brothers Benjamin and Joel Madden.

Random celebrity death: In 2012 US author Sid Couchey.

Random historical event: In 1888 a huge blizzard hit the eastern seaboard of the USA which brought life to a standstill and resulted in over 400 fatalities.

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Today is day #351 with 14 days left in 2014.

Random celebrity birth: In 1749 Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa.

Random celebrity death: In 2013 Japanese musician Tetsurō Kashibuchi.

Random historical event: In 497 BC the first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome in honor of the god Saturnus.

 

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Today is day #166 with 199 days left in 2013.

Random celebrity birth: In 1983 Australian musician, Laura Imbruglia.

Random celebrity death: In 1961 Italian race car driver, Giulio Cabianca while test driving a Cooper-Ferrari F1 car at the Modena Autodrome.

Random historical event: In 1804 the Twelfth Amendment (Amendment XII) to the United States Constitution was ratified when New Hampshire approved the amendment.