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2013 Event - Artist Paul Emsley unveils the first official portrait of Catherine Duchess of Cambridge

2012 Event - Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge leaves the hospital after suffering from severe morning sickness

1994 Death - Warwick Hutton, illustrator, artist, author, created illustrations for children's books, worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen, dies at 55 of cancer in Cambridge, England

1990 Death - Maurine Stuart, Zen teacher, head of Cambridge Buddhist Association, dies

1986 Event - Mrs Davina Thompson makse medical history by having the 1st heart, lung and liver transplant (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)

1979 Event - Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center

1979 Event - Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Association meditation in Boston

1976 Death - Godfrey Cambridge, actor (Watermelon Man), dies at 43

1975 Birthday - Robert Norman Waddell, Cambridge New Zealand, Single scull rower 1996 Olympics

1974 Birthday - Marcia Turner, Cambridge Massachusetts, Miss America, Mass-Top 10-1996

1971 Birthday - Louie Debrusk, Cambridge, NHL left wing, Edmonton Oilers

1970 Birthday - Matt Damon, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, actor, writer, Academy-Award winner for 'Good Will Hunting', starred in 'Saving Private Ryan', 'Bourne' films

1970 Birthday - Joe Vitiello, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, infielder for the Kansas City Royals

1969 Birthday - Jody Hull, Cambridge, NHL right wing for the Florida Panthers

1968 Event - 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)

1968 Event - 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)

1968 Birthday - Traci Bingham, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, actress, model, appeared on television series, 'Baywatch'

1967 Event - Race riots in Cambridge Maryland

1965 Birthday - Ian Leggatt, Cambridge Ont, Canadian Tour golfer, 1990 Canadian Tour

1964 Event - "Cambridge Circus" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 23 performances

1964 Event - "Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 23 performances

1961 Birthday - Richard Allen Garriott, born in Cambridge, England, computer game designer, Origin

1960 Event - Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass

1957 Death - Alexander Cambridge, Governor-General (South Africa 1923-31/Canada 1940-5), dies at 82

1956 Event - Writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge

1954 Birthday - Jere Burns, Cambridge MS, actor, Something So Right, Kirk-Dear John

1954 Birthday - Judith Weir, born in Cambridge, England, composer, professor of music at Cardiff University, Artistic Director, Spitafields Festival, Composer in Association for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

1953 Birthday - Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, born in Cambridge, England, politician, landowner, Conservative party, Member of Parliament for Cotswold

1950 Birthday - Ann Jillian, Cambridge Massachusetts, actress, Mr Mom, Jennifer Slept Here

1948 Birthday - Olivia Newton-John, born in Cambridge, England, singer, Lets Get Physical

1948 Event - Benjamin Brittens "Beggar's Opera," premieres in Cambridge

1947 Birthday - Alan Rachins, Cambridge Massachusetts, actor, Douglas-LA Law

1947 Birthday - Jane Curtin, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, actress, SNL, Allie Lowell-Kate and Allie

1947 Birthday - David Leland, born in Cambridge, England, actor and director, Nothing But Trouble

1944 Birthday - Eugenia Zukerman, Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist, Deceptive Cadence

1944 Birthday - Roger Waters, born in Cambridge, England, rock bassist, Pink Floyd-Wall

1944 Birthday - Alan Horwarth, born in Britain, politician, Baron Howarth of Newport, Member of Parliament for Statford-on-Avon and Newport East, educated at King's College, Cambridge, Conservative Party

1944 Birthday - David Gilmore, born in Cambridge, England, guitarist, Pink Floyd

1942 Birthday - Paul Michael Glaser, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, actor, Starsky-Starsky and Hutch

1940 Birthday - Sam Waterson, Cambridge Massachusetts, actor, Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate

1940 Birthday - Anne Campbell, born in England, politician, Labor Member of Parliament for Cambridge, portrayed by Harriet Walter in 10 Days to War, a BBC drama on events leading up to the Iraq War

1938 Birthday - Alec Broers, master, Churchill College Cambridge

1938 Birthday - Keith Peters, born in Baglan, Wales, physician, head of the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge

1938 Birthday - Dick Higgins, born in Cambridge, England, composer, coined term 'intermedia', founder, Something Else Press

1936 Birthday - Ian McLachlan, cricketer, Cambridge and S Australia bat, later Liberal MP

1936 Event - Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge U vs. MCC

1934 Birthday - William Cleary, Cambridge Massachusetts, hockey center, Olympic-gold/silv-56, 60

1934 Birthday - Bob Hepple, master, Clare College Cambridge

1934 Event - Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University!

1933 Birthday - Godfrey Cambridge, New York City, actor, Cotton comes to Harlem

1932 Birthday - Geoffrey Cass, CEO, Cambridge University Press

1932 Birthday - John Lyons, Cambridge England, Master, Trinity Hall

1930 Birthday - Dorothy Loudon, Cambridge Massachusetts, actress and singer, Garry Moore Show

1930 Event - Cambridge Theater opens in London

1930 Birthday - Simon Barrington-Ward, born in England, educated at Eton College, Cambridge, 7th Bishop of Coventry in the Church of England, 1985 - 1997, Bishop with pastoral care, University of Cambridge

1930 Birthday - Richard Hayman, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, orchestra leader, Vaughn Monroe Show

1929 Birthday - Michael Atiyah, educator, Trinity College - Cambridge England

1928 Birthday - Nigel Davenport, Cambridge England, actor, Without a Clue, Masada

1928 Birthday - Vaughn Beals, Cambridge Massachusetts, CEO, Harley Davidson motorcycle

1927 Birthday - Robert Matthews, master, Clare College Cambridge England

1926 Birthday - Richard Laws, St. Edmunds College Cambridge

1924 Birthday - Michael McCrum, master, Corpus Christi College Cambridge

1923 Birthday - Michael Jaffe, director, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge England

1921 Birthday - John Glenn, born in Cambridge, Ohio, astronaut, Mercury 7, STS-95, Senator-D-Ohio

1920 Birthday - Frank Fontaine, Cambridge Massachusetts, comedian, Crazy Guggenheim

1915 Birthday - Edward Miller, Master, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge

1912 Birthday - Tip O'Neill, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1977 - 1987, Speaker of the House

1912 Event - G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles vs. Cambridge

1912 Birthday - Richard D'Aeth, president, Hughes Hall Cambridge

1894 Birthday - e. e. cummings, Cambridge Massachusetts, poet, Tulips and Chimneys

1894 Birthday - Fred Allen, Cambridge Massachusetts, comedian, Fred Allen Radio Show

1889 Birthday - Charles Bickford, Cambridge Massachusetts, actor, John-The Virginian

1883 Birthday - John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge England, economist and journalist

1881 Event - Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass)

1878 Event - Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match

1877 Event - University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat

1864 Event - 1st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge

1858 Birthday - William Ernst Johnson, born in Cambridge, England, mathematician

1841 Birthday - John W. Rayleigh, England, physicist, Nobel 1904, Cambridge, 1908-14

1835 Event - Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society

1827 Event - Charles Darwin reaches Christ's Counsel, Cambridge

1809 Birthday - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge, Massachusetts, physician/author, Old Ironsides

1778 Event - 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass

1775 Event - Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass

1668 Event - Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge

1661 Event - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

1644 Death - William Chillingworth, English theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies

1642 Event - Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1st commencement

1639 Event - Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard

1636 Event - Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded

1629 Event - Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate

1553 Event - Prime Minister John Dudley captured in Cambridge

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