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2012 Event - In the U.S. state of Connecticut, a shooter kills 29 people, including 20 children, himself and his mother at Sandy Hook Elementary School

2012 Event - Seven new saints are canonized by Pope Benedict XVI, including Anna Schaffer, Kateri Tekakwitha, Marianne Cope and Pedro Calungsod

2012 Event - Ending an extensive study on the wooly mammoth, scientists conclude that they were wiped out by multiple things, including climate change, human hunters, and shifting habitats

2012 Event - Following political reforms in Myanmar, Australia relaxes sanctions on the country, including by-elections earlier this month where opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi's party won more than a dozen seats

2012 Event - Data from the 1940 U.S. census is released including information on 132 million people

2012 Event - Pope Benedict XVI announces seven new saints - including American saint Kateri Tekakwitha - and appoints 22 new cardinals

2012 Event - The credit ratings of European Union members including Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain are downgraded by Moody's Investors Service

2012 Event - Colorado closes its highways, including the I-70, due to heavy snowfall

2011 Event - Cuba announces plans to release 2,900 prisoners, including political prisoners

2011 Event - Reports indicate the credit ratings agency Standard & Poors will review 15 nations for possible downgrades, including France and Germany

2011 Event - Rioting takes place in English cities including Manchester, liverpool, Salford, Birmingham and Nottingham; police from Scotland are called in to help

2011 Event - In Guinea, up to 80 people, including soldiers, are arrested for a failed assassination attempt on President Alpha Conde, which occurred July 19

2011 Event - A report submitted to the United Nations states Iran has been caught attempting to transfer weaponry to terrorists including Hamas and the Taliban 10 times

2011 Event - The news of Osama bin Laden's death is received positively by international leaders, including Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari

2011 Event - The U.S. government 'condemns' international media outlets, including 'The New York Times' for publishing confidential files

2011 Event - Over 230,000 acres of land, including the town Fort Davis, are destroyed by wildfires in the state of Texas

2011 Event - Tunisia's youth protest for several days over political grievances and social problems including the job market and purchase power

2010 Event - Longtime U.S. Democratic Representative Charlie Rangel is found guilty of multiple violations of House rules, including failure to pay taxes

2010 Event - In one of Spain's biggest corruption trials, 95 people, including two former mayors and a planning chief, appear in court in Malaga

2010 Event - The U.K. will increase aid to poor nations, including a 40% increase in Afghanistan, while reducing aid to 'powerhouses' like Russia, China and other eastern European countries

2010 Event - Pope Benedict XVI celebrates open-air Mass at Fatima, Portugal with over 500,000 pilgrims attending from 35 nations including Vietnam, China and India

2010 Event - Ash from the Iceland volcano causes new flight restrictions at airports including Shannon Airport and Ireland West Airport Knock

2010 Event - The BBC finds evidence of a massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army last December, in which 321 people, including children, were killed

2004 Event - 76th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King sweeps all eleven nominations, including Best Picture, Sean Penn and Charlize Theron win lead acting awards

1998 Event - 70th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, Titanic wins eleven Oscars, including Best Picture, Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt win lead acting awards

1995 Death - Benny Lee, entertainer, comedy actor, singer, appeared in radio comedy programs, including It's a Square World, appeared in episodes of Are You Being Served?, and the television series Minder, dies at 84

1994 Death - Gottlob Frick, singer, bass, performed opera including roles by Wagner and Mozart, dies at 88

1993 Event - The Branch Davidian Compound near Waco, Texas, is destroyed in a fire after 51-day stand-off; 76 people die, including 24 British nationals and 20 children

1992 Event - 2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern California

1992 Event - 2 earthquakes, including 3rd strongest in U.S. (7.4) rock California

1990 Event - Brewers beat Angels 20-7, including 13 in 5th inning

1985 Event - Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's and 2 Renoir's

1984 Event - Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard touchdown (Hail Mary Pass) to end game and beat Miami 47-45

1984 Event - Oakland A's Dave Kingman hits 3 home runs including a grand slam

1980 Death - Bert Kaempfert, orchestra leader, songwriter, composed jazz-oriented, easy-listening records including Strangers in the Night and hit Wonderland by Night, Danke Schoen for Wayne Newton and L-O-V-E for Nat King Cole

1980 Event - Bucky Dent hits an inside park home run, Royals walk 14 Yankees including 5 with bases loaded, Yankees win 16-3

1973 Event - Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love"

1972 Birthday - Dane Cook, born in Boston, Massachusetts, Dane Jeffrey Cook, comedian, stand up comic, released five comedy albums, 'Retaliation' went double platinum, the highest charting comedy album in 28 years, appeared in 15 films since 1997, including 'My Best Friend's Girl'

1971 Birthday - Tim Jones, born in America, composer, musician, composer of film scores including, 'Chuck', 'Vampires: The Turning', 'Wicked Little Things'

1971 Event - Federal grand jury indicts Reverend Philip Berrigan and 5 others, including a nun and 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger

1970 Event - 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons)

1969 Birthday - Graham Coxon, born in Rintein, West Germany, musician, instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, painter, lead guitarist and singer for Blur, art and music is featured on the band's seven albums, including Leisure, 1991, album titled 13, in 1999, and Think Tank, 2003, single-handedly recorded seven solo albums, including The Spinning Top on Transgressive records

1968 Event - Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed

1967 Event - Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II

1966 Birthday - Deana Carter, born in Nashville, Texas, Deana Kay Carter, country singer, famous for multi-platinum debut album 'Did I Shave My Legs for This?', albums include fourteen singles, three reached number one on the Billboard country charts, including 'Strawberry Wine'

1965 Birthday - Nicholas Sparks, born in Omaha, Nebraska, bestselling author, writer, novelist, wrote, 'A Walk to Remember', author of novels including, 'Nights in Rodanthe', 'The Last Song', 'The Notebook'

1965 Event - Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Captain

1964 Birthday - Clinton Gregory, born in Martinsville, Virginia, singer, songwriter, recording artist, fiddler, country and bluegrass genres, recorded seven studio albums, chartered 11 Billboard Hot country Singles and Tracks, including Play, Ruby, Play, which reached no. 25 on the charts

1961 Birthday - Daniel Clowes, born in Chicago, Illinois, author, cartoonist, creator of 'Eightball', published graphic novels including, 'Ghost World'

1960 Event - Baltimore Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle

1960 Death - Ernest Holmes, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine, dies

1956 Birthday - Bill Caudill, born in Santa Monica, California, nickname 'Cuffs', baseball player, pitcher, played for American and National League teams, including, Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners

1955 Birthday - Jeff Koons, born in York, Pennsylvania, artist, known for large reproductions of ordinary objects, including brightly colored balloon animals made of stainless steel

1952 Birthday - Philip Green, born in Croyden, England, businessman, owns large retail stores including Arcadia Group, 9th richest person in Britain, worth over $4 billion

1951 Event - Lefty O'Doul's all-stars, including Joe DiMaggio and Billy Martin, lose 3-1 to Pacific League all-star team (Japan)

1950 Event - Pittsburgh Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 home runs

1949 Birthday - Ken Follet, born in Cardiff, Wales, author, sold over 100 million copies of books including 'The Key to Rebecca', 'World Without End'

1949 Birthday - David Robinson, born in Woburn, Massachusetts, drummer, musician, played with various rock bands including The Cars, The Modern Lovers and DMZ

1949 Birthday - Kalevi Aho, born in Forssa, Finland, composer, large-scale works, symphonies, vocal works, concertos, operas, including 'The Key', 'Insect Life'

1948 Birthday - Shakti Gawain, author, personal development expert, environmentalist, wrote series of successful books, including 'Creative Visualization' and 'Creating True Prosperity', books have sold over 10 million copies, co-founder, New World Library Publishing Company

1948 Birthday - T-Bone Burnett, born in St. Louis, Missouri, musician, songwriter, produced artists including BoDeans, Counting Crows, music for films

1947 Birthday - John C. Maxwell, born in Garden City, Michigan, evangelical Christian, author, pastor, speaker, leadership expert, wrote over 50 books on leadership, sold over 13 million copies including 'Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow'

1945 Event - Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ends

1942 Event - military all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0

1941 Birthday - Ivana Loudova, born in Chlumec nad Cidlinou, Czech Republic, composer, wrote chamber, orchestral, children's choral works, including 'Little Christmas Cantata'

1940 Birthday - Clem Curtis, born in Trinidad, singer, lead vocalist for The Foundations, a British soul group, including hits, 'Baby Now That I've Found You', 'Back On My Feet Again', 'Any Old Time'

1937 Birthday - Paul Mefano, born in France, composer, conductor, founded Ensemble 2e2m, premiered over 500 works by young composers, including James Dillon and Franco Donatoni, directed the Conservatory of Versailles 1996 - 2005

1936 Birthday - Floyd Abrams, born in America, attorney, constitutional law expert, argued for famous cases, including the New York Times in the Judith Miller in CIA leak grand jury investigation

1934 Birthday - Adolf Muschg, born in Zollikon, canton of Zurich, writer, German language and literature professor, wrote provocative works, including If Auschwitz is in Switzerland

1934 Event - Red Sox score 12 runs in 4th inning including record 4 consecutive triples hit by Carl Reynolds, Moose Solters, Rick Ferrell, and B Walters

1930 Death - Alois Jirasek, writer, taught secondary school, wrote plays, historical novels, including, 'Against Everyone', dies in Prague, Czechoslovakia

1929 Birthday - Dick Williams, baseball player, manager, including Seattle 1986-87

1927 Birthday - Boris Porena, born in Rome, Italy, Italian composer, didactical expert, studied under Goffredo Petrassi, influenced by neoclassical poetics, wrote texts about music including Musica-Societa which includes social and political analysis

1927 Birthday - Lucio Fulci, born in Rome, Italy, director, screenwriter, actor, known for directing gore films, Zombi 2 and The Beyond, other genres, including giallo, western, comedy

1927 Event - International Economic Conference (52 countries including U.S.S.R.) opens

1923 Birthday - Bert Kaempfert, born in Barmbek, Hamburg, Germany, orchestra leader, songwriter, composed jazz-oriented, easy-listening records including Strangers in the Night and hit Wonderland by Night, Danke Schoen for Wayne Newton and L-O-V-E for Nat King Cole

1921 Birthday - Ernest Gold, born in Vienna, Austria, Ernst Gold, composer, wrote nearly 100 film and television scores, including It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, On the Beach, four Academy-Award nominations, three Golden Globe nominations

1921 Birthday - Kan Ishii, born in Tokyo, Japan, composer, famous for Symphonia Ainu, inspired by national primitivism, wrote orchestral and vocal music for film and stage, including music for science-fiction film Gorath

1921 Death - Billy Gunn, cricket (score 392 runs for England including a century), dies

1921 Birthday - Andre Hodeir, born in Paris, France, violinist, composer, studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, founder and director of Jazz Groupe de Paris, comprised of nine musicians including Bobby Jaspar and Nat Peck

1919 Event - U.S. deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman

1916 Event - Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the U.S. for $25 million

1911 Birthday - Benny Lee, born in Glasgow, Scotland, entertainer, comedy actor, singer, appeared in radio comedy programs, including It's a Square World, appeared in episodes of Are You Being Served?, and the television series Minder

1906 Birthday - Gottlob Frick, born in Germany, singer, bass, performed opera including roles by Wagner and Mozart, best known recording is Osmin, in The Abduction from the Seraglio, Rocco in Fidelio, Sarastro in The Magic Flute

1902 Birthday - Lucie Rie, born in Vienna, Austria, born Luzie Gomperz, potter, works displayed in collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York

1887 Birthday - Ernest Holmes, born in Lincoln, Maine, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine

1864 Event - Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery

1854 Event - Allied armies, including those of Britain and France, land in Crimea

1851 Birthday - Alois Jirasek, born in Czechoslovakia, writer, taught secondary school, wrote plays, historical novels, including, 'Against Everyone'

1815 Event - Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium

1809 Event - Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)

1792 Event - Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette

1691 Event - New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth

1625 Event - 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem

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