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1972 - January. January 1 - Maurice Chevalier, French entertainer (surgical complications) (b. 1888) January 6 - Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (b. 1901) January 8 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (b. 1911) January 10 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897) January 14 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899) January 16 – Ross Bagdasarian, American record producer and creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks (b. 1919) January 26 - Mahalia Jackson, A ...

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1972 - January. January 1 - Maurice Chevalier, French entertainer (surgical complications) (b. 1888) January 6 - Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (b. 1901) January 8 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (b. 1911) January 10 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897) January 14 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899) January 26 - Mahalia Jackson, A ...

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1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. 1972 - Events. International year of the book January 2 - The Pierre Hotel Heist - Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Loot is at least $4 million. January 4 - Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge at the Old Bailey in London. January 5 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space sh ...

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In 1922, with the help of the Kansas City Democratic machine led by boss Tom Pendergast, Truman was elected judge of the County Court of Jackson County, Missouri — an administrative, not judicial, position. Although he was defeated for reelection in 1924, he won back the office in 1926 and was reelected in 1930. Truman performed his duties in this office diligently, and won personal acclaim for several popular public works projects, including an extensive series of fine roads for the growing use of the automobiles, building of a new County Court building, and a series of 12 Madonna of the Trail monuments to pioneer ...

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Harry S. Truman, Harry S. Truman - Early life, Harry S. Truman - Political career, Harry S. Truman - Presidency, Harry S. Truman - Israel, Harry S. Truman - Civil rights, Harry S. Truman - Cabinet, Harry S. Truman - Supreme Court appointments, Harry S. Truman - Major legislation signed, Harry S. Truman - Post-presidency, Harry S. Truman - Scholarly Secondary Sources, Harry S. Truman - Primary Sources, Harry S. Truman - Truman's middle initial, Harry S. Truman - Memorials, Harry S. Truman - Media, Harry S. Truman - Notes

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Adolph Friedrich Rupp (September 2, 1901 - December 10, 1977) was one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball. Rupp is the second winningest men's college coach, winning 876 games in 41 years of coaching, and set a remarkable standard of excellence. He was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame on April 13, 1969. Born in Halstead, Kansas, he played college basketball for the University of Kansas under the great coach Dr. Forrest "Phog" Allen from 1919 to 1923. Rupp went on ...

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September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). There are 111 days remaining. It is usually the first day of the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar (in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099). September 11 - Events. 1226 - The Catholic practice of Perpetual adoration begins. 1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English. 1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors. ...

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Although Chaplin had his major successes in the United States and was a resident from 1914 to 1952, he retained his British nationality. During the era of McCarthyism, Chaplin was accused of "un-American activities" as a suspected communist; and J. Edgar Hoover, who had instructed the FBI to keep extensive files on him, tried to end his United States residency. FBI pressure on Chaplin grew after his 1942 campaign for a second front in the war, and reached a critical level in the late 1940's, when Congressional figures threatened to call him as a witness in hearings. This was never done, probably because of fear of Chaplin's abi ...

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Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin - Birth, Charlie Chaplin - Childhood, Charlie Chaplin - Stage, Charlie Chaplin - America, Charlie Chaplin - Auteur, Charlie Chaplin - United Artists, Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin - Politics, Charlie Chaplin - McCarthyism, Charlie Chaplin - Academy Award, Charlie Chaplin - Marriages, Charlie Chaplin - Mildred Harris, Charlie Chaplin - Lita Grey, Charlie Chaplin - Oona O'Neill, Charlie Chaplin - Knighted, Charlie Chaplin - Death, Charlie Chaplin - Misinformation, Charlie Chaplin - Legacy, Charlie Chaplin - Media, Charlie Chaplin - Trivia, Charlie Chaplin - Filmography, Charlie Chaplin - Short films as actor, Charlie Chaplin - Feature films, Charlie Chaplin - Notes

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A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word is applied to the inflow of the tide, as opposed to the outflow or "ebb". The Flood, the great Universal Deluge of myth and perhaps o ...

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March 6 - 1252 to 1899. 1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235) 1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458) 1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador 1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580) 1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1694) 1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician 1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690) 1796 - Guillaume ...

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Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) (Rear Admiral, USN, Ret.) was the first U.S. astronaut in space, though his first flight was only sub-orbital. He attended the East Derry primary and secondary schools in his birthplace of Derry, New Hampshire; received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1944, an Honorary Master of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1962, and Honorary Doctorate of Science from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) in 1971, and an Honorar ...

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See also: 1972 in film 1973 1974 in film 1970s in film years in film film 1973 in film - Events. The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra. 1973 in film - Top grossing films. North America The Exorcist Deliverance The Getaway Live and Le ...

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As the War drew to an end, he began searching for a seat to fight at the impending general election. Eventually he was selected for Ormskirk, which was then held by Stephen King-Hall. Wilson accidentally agreed to be adopted as the candidate immediately rather than delay until the election was called, and was therefore compelled to resign from the Civil Service. He used the time in between to write A New Deal for Coal which used his wartime experience to argue for nationalisation of the ...

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1984 - January. January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state. January 1 - AT&T is broken up into 24 independent units. January 5 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU. January 7 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). January 9 - Clara Peller is featured in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's for the first time. January 10 - The United States and the Va ...

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June 7 - 1529 to 1899. 1529 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (d. 1615) 1761 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d. 1821) 1778 - Beau Brummell, English fashion leader (d. 1840) 1811 - James Young Simpson, British obstetrician (d. 1870) 1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892) 1845 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930) 1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903) 1862 - Philipp Lenar ...

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1936 - January-March. January 7-10 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: In the Battle of Ganale Doria, General Graziani attacks troops under Ras Desta Damtew guarding southern Ethiopia; after over three days of slaughter, the Ethiopians break and flee. January 15 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. January 16 - Serial killer Albert Fish executed in Sing Sing January 20 - Death of George V of the Unite ...

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Relations between the United States and Iraq remained tense following the Persian Gulf War. In April of 1993 the Iraqi Intelligence Service, it is alleged, attempted to assassinate former President George H. W. Bush during a visit to Kuwait. Kuwaiti security forces apprehended a group of Iraqis at the scene of an alleged bombing attempt. It has been alleged that the charges against Iraq in relation to this event were fabricated [10]. On June 26, 1993, the U.S. launched a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for the at ...

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Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California to Francis Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon in a house his father built from a kit purchased from Sears, Roebuck. He was raised by his mother as an evangelical Quaker. His upbringing is said to have been marked by such conservative evangelical Quaker observances as refraining from drinking, dancing and swearing. His father (known as Frank) was a former member of the Methodist Protestant Church who had sincerely converted to Quakerism but never fully ab ...

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Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon - Birth and early years, Richard Nixon - Nixon in Congress 1946-52, Richard Nixon - Vice Presidency, Richard Nixon - 1960 election and post-Vice Presidency, Richard Nixon - Presidency, Richard Nixon - Cabinet, Richard Nixon - Supreme Court appointments, Richard Nixon - Major initiatives, Richard Nixon - Watergate, Richard Nixon - Later years and death, Richard Nixon - Media, Richard Nixon - Quotations, Richard Nixon - Foreign policy, Richard Nixon - On Watergate, Richard Nixon - On peace, Richard Nixon - Miscellaneous, Richard Nixon - Nixon's image and media portrayals, Richard Nixon - Nixon in popular culture, Richard Nixon - Trivia

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After Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's suspension of civil liberties in 1975, Mother Teresa said: "People are happier. There are more jobs. There are no strikes." These approving comments were seen as a result of the friendship between Teresa and the Congress Party. Mother Teresa's comments were even criticized outside India within Catholic media. (Chatterjee, p. 276.) An Indian-born writer living in Britain, Dr. Aroup Chatterjee, who had briefly worked in one of Mother Teresa's homes, began investigations into the finances and o ...

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As at June 2001, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated the total resident indigenous population to be 458,500 (2.4% of Australia's total), 90% of whom identified as Aboriginal, 6% Torres Strait Islander and the remaining 4% being of dual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parentage. In the 2001 census the Aboriginal population in different States was: New South Wales - 134,888 Queensland - 125,910 Western Australia - 65,931 Northern Territory - 56,875 Victoria - 27,846 South Australia - 25,544 Tasmania - 17,384 See also:

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1975 - January. January 1 - Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up January 2 - The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by Congress January 5 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people. January 7 - OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%. January 8 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the firs ...

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