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2013 Event - Harper Lee, author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird', faces a court battle in a lawsuit claiming a literary agent tricket her into giving up the copyright to her world-famous book

2012 Event - For the first time since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the United States plans to help clean up herbicide Agent Orange from areas in Vietnam

2011 Event - Famed 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling leaves her agent, Christopher Little, ending their 15-year working relationship

2010 Event - Alphalara itadori, a Japanese insect that combats invasive Japanese knotweed, is the first biocontrol agent approved by the European Union

2005 Event - Watergate figure Deep Throat is revealed to be W. Mark Felt a former F.B.I agent

2004 Death - Julius Schwartz, comic editor/agent, dies at 88

1997 Event - FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia

1996 Event - Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays

1996 Death - Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72

1996 Death - Liesbeth Askonas, concert agent, dies at 83

1995 Event - Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41)

1995 Event - FBI agent Lon Horiuchi shoots at Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho

1995 Death - Herta Ryder, literary agent, dies at 77

1995 Death - Henry C Rogers, press Agent, dies at 81

1995 Death - Elaine Greene, literary Agent, dies at 74

1994 Death - Julian Belfrage, theatre agent, dies at 60

1994 Death - Judy Ann Scott-Fox, agent, dies at 56

1993 Death - Bob Wolf, agent (New Kids on the Block, Larry Bird), dies

1992 Event - New York Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key

1992 Death - Dorothy Tree, actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Nazi Agent), dies

1992 Event - New York Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul

1991 Death - H N "Swanie" Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke

1990 Death - Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61

1990 Event - NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with San Francisco Giants

1990 Event - Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent

1988 Event - Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract

1988 Death - H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies

1987 Death - Madeleine Carroll, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent), dies at 81

1986 Event - Richard W. Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage

1985 Event - Mexican authorities find body of U.S. drug agent Enrique C. Salaazar

1984 Event - Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with New York Yankees

1984 Event - Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage

1984 Event - $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit

1984 Event - A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation

1982 Event - Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians

1981 Event - Arbitrator Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent

1981 Event - Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner)

1979 Event - U.S. admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange

1979 Birthday - James Allen, born in Portland, Oregon, James Deshaune Allen, football player, linebacker, played for National Football League, attended Oregon State University, chosen 82nd overall in 2002 NFL Draft by the New Orleans Saints, now a free agent

1978 Event - Free agent Pete Rose signs 4-year, $32 million contract with Phillies

1977 Death - Percy Marmont, actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon), dies at 93

1976 Event - Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with New York Yankees

1976 Event - Yankees sign free agent Don Gullett

1974 Event - Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3M 5 year New York Yankees contract

1974 Event - A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)

1974 Event - Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley

1973 Death - Roger Delgado, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June), dies at 55

1967 Event - Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's 1st free agent

1965 Death - Frank Reicher, actor (King Kong, Nazi Agent, Son of Kong), dies at 89

1951 Birthday - David Yip, born in Liverpool, England, of Chinese descent, English actor, played Johnny Ho in The Chinese Detective, played CIA liason agent Chuck Lee in 'A View to a Kill', a 1985 James Bond film

1949 Birthday - Victor Ostrovsky, Canadian/Israel, Mossad agent, By Way of Deception

1949 Birthday - Anna Bergman, Stockholm Sweden, actress, Agent 69

1948 Event - Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent

1946 Birthday - Laraine Ashton, fashion models' agent, London

1944 Death - Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated

1942 Birthday - Johnny Rivers, Ramistella, New York City, singer, Secret Agent Man

1941 Event - Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor

1940 Death - George C Pearce, actor (Hold tat Lion, British Agent), dies at 75

1939 Birthday - Barbara Feldon, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actress, Agent 99-Get Smart

1938 Birthday - Judy Ann Scott-Fox, agent

1936 Birthday - Wally Amos, born in Tallahassee, Florida, actor, speaker, co-wrote, 'The Power in You', founder, 'Famous Amos' chocolate chip cookie brand, first African-American talent agent, represented Diana Ross & the Supremes, Simon & Garfunkel

1936 Birthday - Graham Carleton Greene, literary agent

1934 Death - Herman Hollis, FBI agent, killed by Baby Face Nelson

1934 Death - Sam Cowley, FBI agent, killed by Baby Face Nelson

1934 Birthday - Lord Patrick Beresforord, blood-stock agent

1934 Birthday - Julian Belfrage, theatre Agent

1933 Event - Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops and 1 gangster killed by mob

1928 Birthday - Dave Ketchum, Quincy, Illinois, actor, Agent 13-Get Smart

1927 Birthday - Anthony Cavendish, British MI 6 agent/banker

1923 Birthday - Phyllis Jenkins, literary and theatrical agent community activist

1922 Birthday - Paul Picerni, New York City, actor, Agent Lee Hobson-Untouchables

1920 Birthday - Elaine Greene, literary Agent

1918 Birthday - Roger Delgado, born in London, actor, Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June

1917 Birthday - Herta Ryder, literary agent

1915 Birthday - Lord Huntingfield, British agent to United Nations Secreteriat

1914 Event - 1st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK)

1913 Birthday - W. Mark Felt, born in Idaho, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, Watergate whistleblower "Deep Throat"

1913 Birthday - Liesbeth Askonas, concert agent

1913 Birthday - Graham Watson, literary agent

1912 Birthday - Odette Hallowes, British classified agent in France, WW II

1912 Birthday - Juan Pujol Garcia, Garbo/Arabel, Spanish British/German double agent

1909 Birthday - Lucy Kroll, entertainment agent

1909 Birthday - Mauritz Hugo, Sweden, actor, Atomic Blonde, Road Agent

1906 Death - Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Rus-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies

1906 Birthday - Madeleine Carroll, England, actress, 39 Steps, Secret Agent

1891 Birthday - Edward L Bernays, Vienna Austria, 1st public relations agent

1889 Birthday - James Stephenson, actor, Letter, Espionage Agent, Nancy Drew

1884 Death - Arnoldus Pannevis, South African shipping agent/linguist, dies at 46

1878 Event - Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent and Henry Morton Stanley

1873 Event - Government bond agent Jay Cooke and Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St

1865 Birthday - George C Pearce, actor, Country Kid, British Agent, Valiant

1721 Event - John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent













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