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Anthony de Mello, also known as Tony de Mello, was an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist. A teacher and public speaker, de Mello wrote several books on spirituality and hoste…
Anthony de Mello, Indian-American priest and psychotherapist (born 1931)
Sammy Kaye was an American bandleader and songwriter, whose tag line, "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye", became one of the most famous of the Big Band Era. The expression springs fr…
Sammy Kaye, American bandleader and songwriter (born 1910)
Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña, was a Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist. Many professional classical guitarists were either students of Segovia or students of S…
Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (born 1893)
William Sampson Jr. was a Muscogee Nation painter, actor, and rodeo performer. He is best known for his performance as the apparently mute Chief Bromden in the 1975 film One Flew O…
Will Sampson, American actor and painter (born 1933)
Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu was a Turkish poet and writer.
Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (born 1940)
Alexander Iolas was an Egyptian-born Greek-American art gallerist and significant collector of classical and modern art works, who advanced the careers of René Magritte, Andy Warho…
Alexander Iolas, Egyptian-American art collector (born 1907)
Mary Elizabeth Hartman was an American actress of stage and screen. She debuted in the popular film A Patch of Blue (1965), playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidne…
Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (born 1943)
Geraldine Sue Page was an American actress. With a career which spanned four decades across film, stage, and television, Page was the recipient of numerous accolades, including an …
Geraldine Page, American actress (born 1924)
Stanisław Sylwester Bareja was a Polish filmmaker. Some of his films have reached cult status in Poland.
Stanisław Bareja, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1929)
Marguerite de Angeli was an American writer and illustrator of children's books including the 1950 Newbery Award winning book The Door in the Wall. She wrote and illustrated twenty…
Marguerite de Angeli, American author and illustrator (born 1889)
Richard Dalton Howser was an American Major League Baseball shortstop, coach, and manager who was best known as the manager of the Kansas City Royals during the 1980s and for guidi…
Dick Howser, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1936)
Margaret Carver Leighton was an American children's author.
Margaret Carver Leighton, American author (born 1896)
The Simpson family are the titular main characters featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. The Simpsons are a nuclear, dysfunctional family consisting of married c…
The fictional Simpson family made their first appearance in the short "Good Night", aired in a segment of the The Tracey
The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army. It was founded as a regiment in 1941 by David Stirling, and in 1950 it was reconstituted as a corps. The…
A British Special Air Service unit ambushed a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit in Loughgall, Northern Irelan
The USS Stark incident occurred during the Iran–Iraq War in the Persian Gulf on 17 May 1987, when an Iraqi jet aircraft fired two Exocet missiles at the U.S. frigate USS Stark. A t…
An Iraqi jet fired two Exocet missiles at the American frigate USS Stark, killing 37 personnel and injuring 21 others
Intelligence assessment is a specific phase of the intelligence cycle which oversees the development of behavior forecasts or recommended courses of action to the leadership of an …
American intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to charges of spying for Israel
Religious violence in India includes acts of violence by followers of one religious group against followers and institutions of another religious group, often in the form of ri…
During Hindu–Muslim rioting in Meerut, India, 19 members of the Provincial Armed Constabulary allegedly massacred 42 Mus
Mathias Rust is a German aviator. In 1987, as a teenage amateur pilot, he flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, without authorization. According to Russian claims, he was tracked…
Mathias Rust, a West German aviator, flew his Cessna 172 from Helsinki, Finland, through Soviet air defences, landing il
The June Democratic Struggle, also known as the June Democracy Movement and the June Uprising, was a nationwide pro-democracy movement in South Korea that generated mass protests f…
Mass protests demanding direct presidential elections broke out across South Korea
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: During a speech at the Brandenburg Gate by the Berlin Wall, US president Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leade
Basque nationalism is a form of nationalism that asserts that Basques, an ethnic group indigenous to the western Pyrenees, are a nation and promotes the political unity of the Basq…
The Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at a Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 people and i
Sikhs are followers of Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the teachings of Guru Nanak. The term …
An assembly of Sikhs, known as a Sarbat Khalsa, officially declare independence for a state of Khalistan
Patrick Allan Morrow, is a Canadian photographer and mountain climber. In 1986 he was the first person to climb the Seven Summits in the Carstensz-Version.
Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits
The Firearm Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) of 1986 is a United States federal law that revised many provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968.
The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U