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125 years ago today, Kurt Weill, a German-born American composer, was born. He was active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. (en.wikipedia.org)
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75 years ago today, Klaus Fuchs, a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy, was convicted of four counts of breaking the Official Secrets Act by "communicating information to a potential enemy." (en.wikipedia.org)
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He supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II.

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10 years ago today, Leonard Nimoy, an American actor and director, died. He is famed for playing Spock in the Star Trek franchise for almost 50 years. (en.wikipedia.org)
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215 years ago today, Henry Cavendish, an English experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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60 years ago today, Stan Laurel, an English comic actor, director and writer, died. He was one half of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. (en.wikipedia.org)
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95 years ago today, Horst Wessel, a member of the SA, died. He became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). (en.wikipedia.org)
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125 years ago today, Luis Buñuel, a Spanish and Mexican filmmaker, was born. He worked in France, Mexico and Spain. (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, The New Yorker, an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry, debuted. (en.wikipedia.org)
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60 years ago today, American Black nationalist Malcolm X was assassinated while giving a speech in New York City's Audubon Ballroom. (en.wikipedia.org)
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30 years ago today, the album Maxinquaye by the trip-hop musician Tricky from Bristol, United Kingdom, was released. (feddit.nl)
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100 years ago today, Robert Altman, an American film director, screenwriter, and producer, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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40 years ago today, Clarence Nash, an American voice actor and impressionist, died. He is best remembered as the original voice of the Disney cartoon character Donald Duck. (en.wikipedia.org)
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26 years ago today the movie Office Space was released (www.themoviedb.org)
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35 years ago today, Adobe Photoshop 1.0 was released for Macintosh exclusively. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, the Battle of Iwo Jima began. It was a major battle in which the US Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army. (en.wikipedia.org)
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85 years ago today, Charles Robert Jenkins, a United States Army deserter, North Korean prisoner, and voice for Japanese abductees in North Korea, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today, the Hunting Act 2004, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, came into force. It bans the hunting of most wild mammals with dogs in England and Wales. (en.wikipedia.org)
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425 years ago today, Giordano Bruno, an Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astrologer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist, was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force. It was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. (en.wikipedia.org)
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175 years ago today, Sophie Bryant, an Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist, was born. She was the first woman to receive a DSc in England. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, the first commercially successful synthesis of diamond by Tracy Hall was announced. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today, the online video platform YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today, former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri was assassinated along with 21 others in an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. (en.wikipedia.org)
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55 years ago today, the album Black Sabbath by the heavy metal band Black Sabbath from the United Kingdom was released. (feddit.nl)
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25 years ago today, Charles M. Schulz, an American cartoonist, died. He was the creator of the comic strip Peanuts which features his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. (en.wikipedia.org)
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