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Famous People Born On This Day In History
1810 Frederic Chopin, composer.
1848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece.
1917 Dinah Shore, chef, talk show hostess.
1917 Robert Lowell
1927 Harry Belafonte
1944 Roger Daltry, lead singer for The Who?
1954 Ron Howard, actor, director, producer.
Events On This Day In History
1781 The Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress.
1784 E. Kidner opens the first cooking school, in Great Britain.
1859 Present seal of San Francisco is adopted, 2nd for the city.
1864 Patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though).
1867 Nebraska becomes a state.
1879 Library of Hawaii founded.
1927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank.
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