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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1738 Benjamin West, painter.
1813 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas.
1900 Helen Hayes
1930 Harold Pinter
1946 Ben Vereen, actor.
1955 David Lee Roth, singer, songwriter.
1958 Tanya Tucker, singer.
Events On This Day In History
1886 Griswold Lorillard wears the first dinner jacket to the Autumn Ball in Tuxedo Park. Thus the name "tuxedo."
1911 The Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China.
1980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated.
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