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1995 Death - Evelyn Wood, speed reading guru, dies at 86

1995 Death - Russell Reading Braddon, author, dies at 74

1994 Death - Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81

1991 Death - Bertice Reading, Dutch actress (Moon in the Gutter), dies

1982 Event - Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH

1975 Birthday - Kate Winslet, born in Reading, England, actress, Titanic, Jude, Hamlet, Get Back

1970 Death - Frank Laubach, taught reading through phonetics, dies

1968 Event - Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon

1967 Birthday - Robert Reading, born in Buffalo, New York, 110m hurdler

1964 Birthday - Rich Delucia, Reading, Pennsylvania, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants

1964 Birthday - Ruth Picardie, born in Reading, England, journalist, editor, The Guardian, The Independent newspapers, author of Before I Say Goodbye, memoir of living with breast cancer

1963 Event - Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools

1960 Birthday - Megan Gallagher, Reading, Pennsylvania, actress, Slap Maxwell, Millennium

1955 Birthday - Stu Jackson, Reading, Pennsylvania, NBA coach, New York Knicks, 1989-90

1955 Birthday - Betsy King, Reading, Pennsylvania, LPGA golfer, 1990 U.S. Women's Open

1952 Birthday - Lisa Eichhorn, Reading, Pennsylvania, actress, Cutter's Way, Yankees

1950 Event - Dylan Thomas arrives in New York City for his 1st U.S. poetry reading tour

1949 Birthday - John Boehner, born in Reading, Ohio, Representative-R-Ohio 1991 -

1946 Birthday - Sian Barbara Allen, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, actress, Scream Pretty Peggy

1936 Birthday - Harry Pitt, vice chancellor, Reading University

1932 Birthday - John Updike, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, writer, novelist, art critic, literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner

1927 Birthday - Gus Yatron, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Representative-D-Pennsylvania 1969 - 1993

1925 Birthday - Forrest Compton, Reading, Pennsylvania, actor, Gomer Pyle USMC, Edge of Night

1921 Birthday - Ed Kemmer, Reading, Pennsylvania, actor, Buzz Corey-Space Patrol

1921 Birthday - Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author

1913 Birthday - Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author

1887 Event - Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in U.S. (New York City)

1886 Birthday - Lillian Fontaine, Reading England, actress, Suddenly it's Spring

1884 Birthday - Frank Laubach, born in Benton, Pennsylvania, educator, taught reading through phonetics

1879 Birthday - Wallace Stevens, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, poet, Ideas of Order

1809 Birthday - Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer, reading system for blind

1776 Event - John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Decleration of Independence in Philadelphia

871 Event - Battle at Reading: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army

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