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2012 Event - The Chicago Teachers Union leadership votes to suspend the strike; teachers go back to school as union members review a tentative pact with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel

2012 Event - A study describing the Big Bang, published in 'Physical Review', suggests it is actually a phase change ruled by event symmetry, a theory which best supports how spacetime could originate from original matter

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

2010 Event - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is granted temporary powers to pass laws by decree, negating any required review or support from the National Assembly

2010 Event - Britain's Labor Party leader Ed Miliband launches a review of the British Labor Party, calling upon activists to help make it the 'People's Party' once again

2003 Death - George Plimpton, writer/adventurer/actor, The Paris Review, dies at 76

1990 Death - Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75

1987 Event - "Washington Week In Review," 20th anniversary on PBS

1972 Death - Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90

1963 Event - 1st edition of New York City Review of Books

1958 Birthday - Keith Haring, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, graffiti artist, Vanity Fair, Paris Review

1950 Death - Isaiah Bowman, geographer/co-founder (Geographical Review), dies at 71

1948 Event - Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow

1944 Birthday - Phil May, born in Wortley, England, artist, caricaturist, drawings published in The Bulletin, St. Stephens Review, The Graphic, regular staff member of Punch

1941 Birthday - George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, journalist, author, wrote, editor, National Review magazine 1972 - 1978, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

1939 Event - Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes"

1934 Event - Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars

1925 Birthday - William F. Buckley, Jr., born in New York City, conservative author, commentator, founded 'The National Review'

1921 Birthday - Pricilla Lanford Buckly, editor/columnist, National Review

1921 Event - Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY

1916 Birthday - Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, author, co-founded The New York Review of Books

1912 Birthday - Norman Cousins, editor, Saturday Review

1905 Birthday - Brian Coffey, born in Dublin, Ireland, poet, publisher, influenced by Catholicism, science and philosophy, surrealism, published in the University Review, established Advent Press

1878 Birthday - Isaiah Bowman, U.S., geography/co-founder, Geographical Review

1872 Birthday - Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit, Saturday Review

1865 Event - Grand Review begins in Washington D.C.

1816 Event - U.S. Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions

1811 Birthday - Vissarion Belinsky, born in Sveaborg, Finland, Russian author, Literary Review

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