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2012 Event - The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is attacked by terrorists; U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed as well as three others; the Cairo embassy was also attacked

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

2010 Event - The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to economists Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides

2004 Death - Christopher Reeve, director/actor/advocate, Superman, dies at 52

2003 Death - Christopher Hill, English Historian

2003 Death - John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian

2001 Death - Christopher Hewett, actor, TV's Mr. Belvedere, dies at 80

2000 Death - Christopher Pettiet, actor, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, dies at 24

1997 Death - "Christopher ""Notorious B.I.G."" Wallace", rapper, dies at 24

1996 Death - Christopher Prater, screen printer, dies at 72

1996 Death - Christopher Casson, actor (Educating Rita, Zardoz), dies at 84

1996 Death - Christopher Robin Milne, bookseller, dies at 75

1996 Death - Christopher John Seward, aid worker, dies at 45

1996 Death - Christopher John Magenis Headington, musician, dies at 65

1995 Event - Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center

1995 Death - Christopher Stone, actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns), dies at 53

1995 Death - Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48

1995 Death - Christopher Shaw, composer pianist/critic, dies at 71

1995 Death - Chris Pyne, Norman Christopher Chris Pyne, musician, trombonist, played with Humphrey Lyttelton, recorded with Ronnie Scott, toured with Frank Sinatra's backing bands, Gordon Beck, Charlie Watt's big band, dies at 56

1995 Death - Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author, dies at 48

1994 Event - Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert

1994 Death - Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot, dies at 92

1994 Death - Christopher Collins, actor (True Identity), dies after illness at 44

1994 Death - Christopher Lasch, author (Culture of Narcissism), dies at 61

1993 Death - Christopher Frank, director/actor (Annee Des Meduses), dies at 50

1993 Death - Christopher Frank, French writer, dies at 51

1993 Event - Shari Beadley weds Christopher Martin (Kid 'n Play)

1992 Event - 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd and Dana Delane

1992 Death - Christopher Todd, Todd Wangberg, dies of AIDS at 30

1992 Event - U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman

1991 Death - Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack

1989 Event - U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman

1988 Death - Christopher Connelly, actor (Liar's Moon, Hawmps), dies at 47

1988 Event - Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter and Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle (3:16.53)

1987 Death - Christopher Stryker, entertainer, dies at 27

1986 Death - Christopher Isherwood, British writer (Lions and Shadows), dies at 81

1984 Death - Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self

1984 Event - Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at Olympics

1983 Death - Christopher George, actor (Chisum, Heist), dies of heart attack at 54

1983 Birthday - Christopher Parker, born in Lewisham, London, actor, television presenter, appeared in 'Hotel Babylon' BBC series, presenter on 'This Morning' television show

1981 Event - 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel wins

1977 Event - Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets

1976 Death - Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated

1976 Birthday - Christopher Pettiet, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Young Riders

1975 Birthday - Christopher Lindsey Donaldson, Dunedin New Zealand, 100m/200m runner 1996 Olympics

1975 Birthday - Christopher Yule, hockey forward, Team Japan 1998

1973 Birthday - Steve Christopher Petree, Oklahoma, rocker, PC Quest-Can You See

1973 Birthday - Christopher Sanders, tight end for the Washington Redskins

1972 Birthday - Christopher Daniel Barnes, ME, actor, Ross-Day by Day, As World Turns

1971 Birthday - Big Punisher, also known as Big Pun and Christopher Rios, American Musician

1971 Birthday - Timothy Christopher Carswell, Christchurch New Zealand, cyclist 1996 Olympics

1971 Death - Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51

1971 Birthday - Christopher R Nelloms, Dayton Ohio, sprinter

1971 Birthday - Christopher Gomez, born in Los Angeles, California, infielder for the San Diego Padres

1970 Death - Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77

1970 Event - Christopher Hampton's "Philanthropist," premieres in London

1970 Birthday - Christopher Nolan, British Director

1969 Birthday - Catherine Zeta Jones, Swansea Wales, actress, Christopher Columbus

1969 Death - Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage), dies at 43

1968 Birthday - Christopher "Chris" Kerber, Collingswood, New Jersey, rower 1996 Olympics

1968 Birthday - Christopher Collett, born in New York City, actor, Manhattan Project

1967 Birthday - Charles Christopher Rymer, Cleveland, Tennessee, PGA golfer, 1995 Shell-3rd

1965 Birthday - Christopher Nolan, born in Ireland, handicapped writer, Under Eye of Clock

1965 Birthday - Chris Washburn, born in Hickory, North Carolina, Christopher Scott Washburn, athlete, NBA player, played for North Carolina State 1985 - 1986

1964 Event - Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians

1964 Event - Bunning continues pitching perfectly to New York Mets until 2 outs in 5th, when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings

1964 Event - Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville

1964 Birthday - Christopher Eccleston, English Actor

1961 Birthday - Christopher J Perry, Edenton, North Carolina, PGA golfer, 1987 Kemper Open-2nd

1961 Birthday - Christopher Atkins, Rye, New York, actor, Peter-Dallas, Blue Lagoon

1960 Birthday - Christopher Sherratt White, Hamilton New Zealand, rower 1996 Olympics

1960 Birthday - Christopher J "Gus" Loria, Newton, Massachusetts, Major USMC/astronaut

1958 Birthday - Christopher Cass, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, actor, Jack Forbes-Loving

1958 Birthday - Christopher Dean, Olympics skater, Torvill and Dean, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics, Bronze Medal 1994 Olympics

1958 Birthday - Christopher Marcantel, born in Smithtown, New York, actor, Chip-Nurse, Loving

1958 Death - William Christopher Handy, American Musician

1957 Birthday - Christopher Knight, New York City, actor, Peter-Brady Bunch

1957 Birthday - [Christopher St. John] "Sinjin" Smith, born in Los Angeles, California, volleyballer 1996 Olympics

1957 Birthday - Christopher Lambert, actor, Highlander, Subway, Greystoke, Why Me

1957 Death - Christopher Morley, American Author

1957 Birthday - Ian Stanley, born in High Wycombe, England, Ian Christopher Stanley, keyboardist, musician, songwriter, record producer, member of Tears for Fears band, made multi-platinum selling album 'Songs from the Big Chair'

1956 Birthday - Christopher Darden, American Lawyer

1955 Birthday - Dennis Christopher, Philadelphia, actor, Breaking Away, California Dreaming

1955 Birthday - Christopher Lawford, actor, Charlie Brent-All My Children

1954 Birthday - Christopher Noth, born in Madison, Wisconsin, actor, played Mr. Big on show, 'Sex in the City'

1954 Birthday - Christopher S. Nelson, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, actor, Sons and Daughters

1953 Birthday - John Malkovich, born in Christopher, Illinois, actor and director, Killing Fields

1953 Birthday - Christopher Norris, New York City, actress, Summer of '42, Eat My Dust

1952 Birthday - Christopher Cox, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Representative-R-California 1989 - 2005

1952 Birthday - Christopher Reeve, New York City, actor, Superman, Somewhere in Time

1951 Birthday - Chris Smith, born in Barnet, London, Christopher Robert 'Chris' Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, politician, Labor Party, Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury, Cabinet minister, first openly gay MP member, HIV positive

1951 Event - Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford

1950 Event - Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed," premieres in London

1949 Birthday - Christopher John Seward, aid worker

1949 Birthday - Christopher Blake, actor, Alexa

1949 Birthday - Christopher Hitchens, American Author

1949 Birthday - Christopher Rouse, composer

1949 Birthday - John Christopher Parry, rocker, Cure

1949 Birthday - Christopher Durang, Montclair, New Jersey, playwright/actor, Sister Mary

1948 Birthday - Christopher Gent, CEO, Vodafone Group

1948 Birthday - Christopher Guest, born in New York City, actor, SNL, Heartbeeps, This is Spinal Tap

1948 Birthday - Christopher Moran, English financier/multi-millionaire

1947 Birthday - Christopher Parkening, born in Los Angeles, California, guitarist, transcribed sacred music

1946 Birthday - Christopher Keene, born in Berkeley, California, conductor, La Traviata

1946 Birthday - Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author

1946 Event - Christopher Fry's "Phoenix too Frequent," premieres in London

1946 Birthday - Christopher Hampton, Azores, playwright, Oviri, Hotel du Lac

1945 Birthday - Christopher Cazenove, England, actor, Ben-Dynasty

1945 Birthday - Christopher Shays, born in Stamford, Connecticut, Representative-R-Connecticut 1987 - 2009

1944 Birthday - Christopher N Dlamini, South African union/SACP-leader

1944 Birthday - Christopher Needler, English sand industrialist, TCG Materials

1944 Birthday - Christopher Dodd, born in Willimantic, Connecticut, Senator-D-Connecticut 1981-

1944 Birthday - Christopher Dodd, American Politician

1943 Birthday - Christopher Brown, composer

1943 Birthday - Christopher Taylor White, rocker

1943 Birthday - Christopher Walken, born in Astoria Queens, actor, Deer Hunter, Brainstorm

1942 Birthday - Christopher Stone, Manchester, New Hampshire, actor, Dave-Dallas, Interns

1942 Birthday - Christopher Howes, Crown Estate Second Commissioner

1941 Birthday - Christopher Jones, Jackson, Tennessee, actor, Wild in the Streets

1940 Birthday - Christopher Timothy, English actor, All Creatures Great and Small

1940 Birthday - Christopher Bernau, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Guiding Light

1939 Birthday - Christopher Wates, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire

1939 Birthday - Christopher Bond, Sen-R Missouri

1939 Birthday - Chris Pyne, born in Bridlington, England, Norman Christopher Chris Pyne, musician, trombonist, played with Humphrey Lyttelton, recorded with Ronnie Scott, toured with Frank Sinatra's backing bands, Gordon Beck, Charlie Watt's big band

1939 Birthday - Charles Christopher Steel, composer

1938 Birthday - Jordan Christopher, Youngstown Ohio, actor, Secrets of Midland Heights

1938 Birthday - Christopher Lloyd, Stamford, Connecticut, actor, Taxi, Back to the Future

1938 Birthday - Christopher Glenn, born in New York City, news anchor, CBS Nightwatch

1937 Birthday - Christopher Tugendhat, born in England, born Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat of Widdington in the County of Essex, politician, Conservative Party, journalist, author, businessman

1937 Birthday - Christopher Rose, born in England, Lord Justice Rose, Sir Christopher Rose, judge, member, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, served Court of Appeal of England and Wales

1936 Birthday - Christopher Alexander, American Architect

1936 Birthday - Christopher Hogg, CEO, Courtaulds and Reuters

1935 Birthday - Dennis Christopher George Potter, playwright, Karaoke, Midnight Movie

1935 Birthday - Christopher Ball, linguist/warden, Keble College-Oxford

1934 Birthday - Christopher France, British permanent secretary, Department of Health

1933 Birthday - Christopher Staughton, British Lord Justice of Appeal

1932 Birthday - William Christopher, Evanstown, Illinois, actor, Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H

1932 Birthday - Christopher Price, Director, Leeds Metropolitan U

1931 Birthday - Christopher Chataway, British MP/athlete, world record 5k

1930 Birthday - Christopher John Magenis Headington, composer

1930 Birthday - Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson, born in England, life peer as Baron Browne-Wilkinson, studied at Lancing College and Magdalen College, Oxford, former head of the Privy Council and Vice-Chancellor of the High Court

1929 Birthday - Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor, Sound of Music, Doll's House

1929 Birthday - Christopher George, Royal Oak, Minnesota, actor, Rat Patrol, Immortal

1928 Event - Christopher Hornsrud chosen Prime Minister of Norway at age 101

1927 Birthday - Christopher Whelen, composer

1926 Birthday - Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer, Trials

1925 Birthday - Jeffrey Hunter, Orleans, Louisiana, actor, Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage

1925 Birthday - Warren M. Christopher, American diplomat and lawyer

1925 Birthday - Anthony Christopher, British trade unionist

1925 Birthday - Christopher Ball, born in Oxford, warden, Keble College

1924 Birthday - Christopher Shaw, composer

1924 Birthday - Christopher Prater, screen printer

1922 Birthday - Christopher Lee, born in London, England, actor, Hound of Baskervilles

1922 Birthday - Christopher Samuel Youd, UK, sci-fi author, Tripods Trilogy

1920 Birthday - Christopher R. Milne, son of Alan A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

1920 Birthday - Christopher Dark, born in New York, actor, Suddenly, Tenderfoot

1917 Birthday - Gene Rayburn, born in Christopher, Illinois, TV game show host, Match Game

1917 Death - Christopher J. Forster, British RAF-pilot/captain, dies in battle

1914 Death - Christopher "Kit" Cradock, English admiral, dies in battle

1914 Birthday - Charles Hubert Sisson, author and poet, Christopher Homm

1912 Birthday - Christopher Hill, English Historian

1912 Birthday - John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian

1912 Birthday - Christopher Casson, Irish actor, Zardoz, Educating Rita

1910 Birthday - Christopher Cockerell, inventor, Hovercraft

1909 Death - Christopher KH de Neree tot Babberich, cartoonist, dies at 29

1909 Birthday - Helen Chandler, Charleston, South Carolina, actress, Christopher Strong, Dracula

1907 Birthday - Christopher Fry, Bristol England, playwright, Ring Around the Moon

1904 Birthday - Christopher W. Bradshaw-Isherwood, British/US writer, Goodbye to Berlin

1904 Birthday - Christopher Isherwood, American Author

1901 Birthday - Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot

1893 Birthday - Christopher K Ingold, English chemist

1890 Birthday - Christopher Morley, author, Kitty Foil

1880 Birthday - Christopher K H de Neree tot Babberich, cartoonist

1873 Birthday - William Christopher Handy, American Musician

1868 Event - Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"

1829 Birthday - Christopher Columbus Andres, Major General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor, typewriter

1809 Birthday - Christopher "Kit" Carson, Kentucky, Union Brigadier-General/indian fighter

1805 Death - Christopher Anstey, English Poet

1803 Birthday - Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Secretary Treasury, Confederacy

1795 Event - Curacao slaves opponents returns to St. Christopher

1782 Event - French fleet occupies St. Christopher

1770 Death - Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of U.S. Revolution

1724 Birthday - Christopher Anstey, English Poet

1723 Death - Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90

1722 Birthday - Christopher Smart, English poet and journalist, Ceremony of Carols

1676 Death - Christopher Gibbons, composer, dies at 61

1669 Death - Christopher Simpson, composer, dies

1666 Event - Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Christopher; thousands die

1632 Birthday - Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/great architect

1615 Birthday - Christopher Gibbons, composer

1612 Death - Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)

1593 Death - Christopher Marlowe, British dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered

1564 Birthday - Christopher Marlowe, English Dramatist

1564 Birthday - Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist, Dr. Faustus

1506 Death - Christopher Columbus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55

1502 Event - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th and last voyage

1498 Event - Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" near Venezuela

1498 Event - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad

1494 Event - On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica

1494 Event - Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica

1493 Event - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage

1493 Event - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica

1493 Event - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica

1493 Event - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage

1493 Event - 1st sight of manatees by Christopher Columbus

1492 Event - Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco

1492 Event - Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba

1492 Event - Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain

1492 Event - Christopher Columbus and ship Santa Maria land in Dominican Republic

1492 Event - Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find Indies

1448 Death - Christopher III, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies

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