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California is a state in the Western United States that lies on the Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, and Nevada and Arizona to the east; it also shares an internation…
In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin
Ferdinand Karl Piëch was an Austrian business magnate, engineer, and executive who held the positions of chairman of the executive board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) of the Volkswagen G…
Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian-German engineer and businessman (died 2019)
Keiko Abe is a Japanese composer and marimba player. She has been a primary figure in the development of the marimba, in terms of expanding both technique and repertoire, and thro…
Keiko Abe, Japanese marimba player and composer
Jan Kaplický was a Neofuturistic Czech architect who spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom. He was the leading architect behind the innovative design office, F…
Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (died 2009)
Antonio Carluccio, OBE, OMRI was an Italian chef, restaurateur and food expert, based in London. He was called "the godfather of Italian gastronomy", with a career of more than 50 …
Antonio Carluccio, Italian-English chef and author (died 2017)
Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Established in 1937 by the German Labour Front, it was revived after World War II by Briti…
Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer, is founded
The Great Purge or Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. After the assassination of Sergei…
Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borde…
Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday
Elinor Donahue is an American retired actress known for playing the role of Betty Anderson, the eldest child of Jim and Margaret Anderson, on the 1950s American sitcom Father Knows…
Elinor Donahue, American actress
Joseph Ejercito Estrada, also known by the nickname Erap, is a Filipino politician and former actor who served as the 13th President of the Philippines from 1998 until his removal …
Joseph Estrada, Filipino politician, 13th President of the Philippines
Jiří Dienstbier was a Czech politician and journalist.
Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2011)
Harvey Quaytman was a geometric abstraction painter best known for large modernist canvases with powerful monochromatic tones, in layered compositions, often with hard edges - insp…
Harvey Quaytman, American painter and educator (died 2002)
George Takei is an American actor, author, and activist. He is known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.
George Takei, American actor
Gary Charles Peters was an American professional baseball player. He was a left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher who played on two major league teams for 14 seasons, from 1959 …
Gary Peters, American baseball player (died 2023)
Ben T. Zinn is an American academic in engineering and former international soccer player. He is the David S. Lewis Jr., Chair and Regents' Professor at the Georgia Institute of Te…
Ben Zinn, Israeli-born American academic and former international soccer player
John Joseph Nicholson is an American retired actor and filmmaker. Nicholson is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, often playing charismatic rebels f…
Jack Nicholson, American actor and producer
Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of prod…
Jack Nitzsche, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (died 2000)
Victoria Glendinning is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is an honorary vice-president of English PEN and vice-president of the Royal Society of Literat…
Victoria Glendinning, English author and critic
David Cecil Mills was an English cricketer. Mills was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Camborne, Cornwall and educated at Clifton College, wh…
David Mills, English cricketer (died 2013)
Barry Kenneth Shepherd was an Australian cricketer who played in nine Test matches from 1963 to 1965.
Barry Shepherd, Australian cricketer (died 2001)
Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and very occasional flute player. In a career spanning more than four decades, Henderson played with many of the leading Americ…
Joe Henderson, American saxophonist and composer (died 2001)
Jean-Pierre Maurice Georges Beltoise was a French racing driver and motorcycle road racer, who competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1962 to 1964, and Formula One from 1966…
Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver and motorcycle racer (died 2015)
Sandra Dale Dennis was an American actress. She made her film debut in the drama Splendor in the Grass (1961). For her performance in the comedy-drama film Who's Afraid of Virginia…
Sandy Dennis, American actress (died 1992)
Robert Henry Alexander Eames, Baron Eames is an Anglican bishop and life peer, who served as Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006.
Robin Eames, Irish Anglican archbishop