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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1619 Cyrano de Bergerac, romantic with a long nose.
1756 Aaron Burr, dualist.
1812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.
1923 Ed McMahon, Heeeerrrreeeee's Johnny!
1937 Merle Haggard, singer.
1937 Valentina Tereshkova, first woman cosmonaut.
1945 Rob Reiner, actor, director, producer, "Meat Head!"
1972 Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player.
Events On This Day In History
1665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was first published, and is still published today.
1836 The Alamo falls. Remember it?
1930 Clarence Birdseye puts the first individually packaged frozen foods on sale, in Springfield, Mass.
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