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2013 Event - 'Hareetz', Israel's oldest daily newspaper, publishes a story in which Israel admits it has administered birth-control injections to Ethiopian Jewish immigrants, without fully educating recipients of its effects

2012 Event - A children's story by James Joyce is published for the first time in Dublin; the story, 'The Cats of Copenhagen' is called an 'outrage'

2009 Death - Paul Harvey, radio broadcaster and news commentator, 'The Rest of the Story'

2002 Death - Caroline Knapp, writer, Drinking: A Love Story, dies at 41

2000 Death - Richard Farnsworth, actor/stunt man, The Straight Story, dies at 80

1998 Death - Jerome Robbins, choreographer, West Side Story, dies at 79

1997 Death - Tom Blackburn, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, dies at 71

1997 Death - Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85

1995 Death - Michael Ende, German writer (Neverending Story), dies at 65

1995 Death - Michael VerMeulen, writer, journalist, magazine editor, broke story on U.S. AIDS epidemic, published in Vanity Fair, Parade, GQ founding features editor, dies at 38

1995 Death - Tristan Jones, sailor, author, Welsh story teller, dies at 71

1994 Death - Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor (Story of Ruth), dies at 83

1992 Death - Larry Riley, actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39

1991 Death - Casey Walters, actor (True Story of Lynn Stuart), after a stroke at 75

1991 Death - Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60

1991 Event - "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" closes at Shubert New York City after 225 performances

1990 Death - Helene Stanley, actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd), dies

1990 Death - Roald Dahl, Br short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74

1990 Event - "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" opens at Shubert New York City for 225 performances

1990 Death - Leonard Bernstein, composer (West Side Story), dies at 72

1990 Death - Katharine Balfour, actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69

1988 Death - Tucker Smith, singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies

1988 Death - Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50

1987 Birthday - Hilary Duff, born in Houston, Texas, actress, appeared in 'A Cinderella Story', singer, sold over 13 million albums, which include, 'Metamorphosis', 'Hilary Duff', 'Dignity'

1986 Death - Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies

1985 Birthday - Sarah Hughes, born in Great Neck, New York, professional ice skater, 2002 Olympic gold medalist, biography 'Sudden Champion: The Sara Hughes Story'

1985 Death - Tom Greenway, actor (Miami Story), dies of a heart attack at 75

1983 Death - Tamara Shayne (Jolson Story), actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack

1983 Event - STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk

1981 Death - Natalie Wood, actress (West Side Story), dies at age 43 from 'accidental drowning'

1981 Death - Will Durant, U.S. author (story of civilization), dies at 96

1981 Event - 1st live radio drama in 25 years (Halloween Story on NBC)

1981 Death - Ariel Durant, U.S. author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83

1981 Event - Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story

1981 Event - Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)

1980 Event - "West Side Story" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 341 performances

1980 Event - "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 341 performances

1977 Death - Peter Finch, actor (Network, Nun's Story, Judith), dies at 60

1976 Death - Mary Nash, actress (Philadelphia Story, Till the Clouds Roll By), dies at 91

1975 Death - Howard Joslin, actor (Quebec, Detective Story), dies at 68

1974 Event - 1st edition of women's magazine "Story"

1973 Death - John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbitt), dies of ulcer at 81

1973 Birthday - Barret Oliver, actor, Never Ending Story, Secret Garden

1972 Birthday - Amanda Marshall, born in Toronto, Canada, singer, multi-platinum album, 'Tuesday's Child', others include, 'Everybody's Got a Story'

1972 Birthday - Tami Stronach, born in Teheran, Iran, actress, Neverending Story

1971 Event - CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story," (introducing the Waltons)

1971 Death - Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies at 45

1971 Birthday - Noah Hathaway, actor, Troll, Neverending Story

1968 Death - Thomas Merton, French/U.S. priest and writer '7 Story Mountain', dies at 53

1968 Death - Nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36

1966 Death - Elizabeth Patterson, actress (Tall Story), dies at 90

1965 Birthday - Sarah Jessica Parker, born in Nelsonville, Ohio, actress, Square Pegs, LA Story

1964 Birthday - Drew Story, San Clemente, California, canoe alternate for 1996 Olympics

1962 Event - West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album

1962 Event - 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story," Sophia Loren and Max Schell win

1962 Birthday - David Foster Wallace, born in New York, author, novelist, short story and literary fiction writer

1961 Death - Joan McCracken, actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage), dies at 38

1961 Birthday - Imogen Stubbs, Rothbury England, actress, Summer Story

1959 Event - Edward Franklin Albee's "zoo story," premieres in Berlin

1959 Event - "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 734 performances

1957 Event - "West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 734 performances

1957 Event - Bernstein and Sondheim's musical "West Side Story," premieres in New York City

1957 Event - Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway

1956 Birthday - Michael VerMeulen, born in Chicago, Illinois, writer, journalist, magazine editor, broke story on U.S. AIDS epidemic, published in Vanity Fair, Parade, GQ founding features editor

1956 Birthday - Juliet Stevenson, Essex England, actress, Secret Rapture, Life Story

1956 Birthday - Lena Olin, born in Stockholm, Sweden, actress, Enemies A Love Story

1955 Birthday - Isabelle Adjani, born in Paris, actress, Story of Adele H, Driver, Ishtar

1955 Birthday - Paul Rodriguez, born in Culiacan, Mexico, comedian, actor, films include, 'A Cinderella Story', 'Lonely Street', 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua'

1954 Birthday - Louise Erdrich, born in Little Falls, Minnesota, author, short story writer, wrote, 'Love Medicine, 'The Plague of Doves'

1952 Birthday - Sam McMurray, born in New York City, New York, actor, television, film, voice actor, appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show, movie roles include Raising Arizona, LA Story

1951 Birthday - John Bentley, born in Deptford, South East London, rocker, bass player, played for Squeeze 1980 - 1982, appeared on albums Argybargy and East Side Story

1950 Birthday - Gemma Craven, Dublin, actress, Wagner, Story of Slipper and Rose

1950 Birthday - Beth Anderson, born in Lexington, Kentucky, composer, singer, neo-romantic genre, invented swales, a musical form based on collages, samples of newly composed music vs. existing music, famous for singing with Limahl on 'The Never Ending Story' film title song

1949 Event - Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in New York City

1948 Event - "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance

1947 Birthday - Vincent Baggetta, Paterson, New Jersey, actor, Lou-Chicago Story

1947 Birthday - Ann Beattie, born in Washington, D.C., short story writer, novelist, compared to John Updike, J.D Salinger, professor at Harvard, University of Virginia, Rea Award for the Short Story recipient

1947 Birthday - Bill Smitrovich, actor, Crime Story, Miami Vice

1946 Birthday - Bruce Robinson, actor, Story of Adele H

1945 Birthday - Nicola Pagett, actress, Oliver's Story, Privates on Parade

1944 Birthday - Don Stroud, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actor, Coogan's Bluff, Buddy Holly Story

1944 Birthday - Gary Busey, born in Goose Creek, Texas, actor, Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born

1944 Birthday - Paul Sands, born in Los Angeles, California, comedian/actor, SCTV, Story Theater, St. Elsewhere

1944 Birthday - Dennis Farina, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Mike Torello-Crime Story

1944 Birthday - Jackie Torrence, story teller/artist

1941 Birthday - Ryan O'Neal, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Peyton Place, Paper Moon, Love Story

1941 Birthday - Ryan O'Neal, actor, Love Story, Paper Moon

1939 Birthday - Ali MacGraw, born in Pound Ridge, New York, actress, Love Story, Goodbye Columbus

1939 Event - Philip Barry's "Philadelphia Story," premieres in New York City

1939 Birthday - Charles Fuller, U.S. writer, Zooman, Soldier Story

1939 Birthday - Richard Beymer, Avoca, Iowa, actor, West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank

1938 Birthday - Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer, Furious Season

1937 Birthday - Erich Segal, born in Brooklyn, New York, author, Love Story, Oliver's Story

1936 Birthday - Susan Kohner, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Imitation of Life, Gene Krupa Story

1936 Birthday - Tony Lo Bianco, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Ann Jillian Story, Hizzoner!

1935 Birthday - F Story Musgrave, Boston, MD/astronaut, STS-6, 51-F, 33, 44, 61, 80

1935 Birthday - Story Musgrave, American Astronaut

1934 Birthday - Martin Charnin, Broadway lyricist, Annie, West Side Story

1934 Birthday - Carol Lawrence, Illinois, dancer/actress, West Side Story

1933 Birthday - George Chakiris, born in Norwood, Ohio, actor, West Side Story

1933 Birthday - Chita Rivera, Washington D.C., actress, West Side Story, Sweet Charity

1931 Birthday - Rita Moreno, Rosa Dolores Alverio, Humacao PR, West Side Story

1931 Birthday - Ken Takakura, Goichi Oda, Kita Japan, actor, Story of Antarctic

1930 Birthday - Jim Rohn, born in Idaho, entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, joined direct sales organization of John Earl Shoaff, became millionaire by age 31, shared rags to riches story and personal development philosophy with over 4 million people worldwide, authored 17 books, audio, video programs

1930 Birthday - Robert Evans, born in New York City, director/actor, Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown

1930 Birthday - Stephen Sondheim, born in New York City, lyricist, West Side Story, Company

1929 Death - Mary MacLane, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month, dies at age 48, in Chicago, Illinois

1929 Birthday - Tristan Jones, born in Liverpool, England, sailor, author, Welsh story teller, wrote about sailing in books and articles

1928 Birthday - Edward Albee, born in Washington, D.C., playwright, Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story

1928 Birthday - Harold Prince, U.S. producer/director, West Side Story, Evita

1928 Birthday - Peter Donat, Kentville Nova Scotia, Flamingo Road, Different Story

1926 Birthday - Diana Lynn, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go

1926 Birthday - John Derek, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, 10, Annapolis Story

1924 Birthday - Sieto Hoving, actor, Holiday in Havana, Palm Beach Story

1923 Birthday - Arthur Hiller, director, Love Story

1923 Birthday - Cathy O'Donnell, Siluria AL, actress, Miniver Story, Man from Laramie

1923 Birthday - Tom Blackburn, born in Raton, New Mexico, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, wrote lyrics to The Ballad of Davy Crockett

1922 Birthday - Joan McCracken, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actress, Claudie Story of a Marriage

1922 Birthday - Grace Paley, born in New York, short story writer, political activist, pacifist, poet

1922 Birthday - Michel Auclair, Vujovic, Germany, actor, Story of a Love Story

1922 Birthday - Eleanor Parker, born in Ohio, actress, Caged, Detective Story, Hans Brinker

1920 Birthday - Anthony Steel, London, actor, Malta Story, Wooden Horse

1918 Birthday - Jerome Robbins, Rabinowitz, New York, choreographer, Tony-West Side Story

1918 Birthday - Paul Harvey, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, radio broadcaster and news commentator, 'Rest of the Story'

1918 Birthday - Leonard Bernstein, Lawrence, Massachusetts, conductor and composer, West Side Story

1918 Birthday - Arthur Laurents, born in New York City, playwright, West Side Story, Gypsy

1917 Birthday - Ruth Hussey, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actress, Another Thin Man, Philadelphia Story

1916 Birthday - Beatrice Straight, Old Westbury, New York, actress, Poltergeist, Nun's Story

1914 Birthday - Samuel "Larry" K Parks, Olathe, Kansas, actor, Jolson-Jolson Story

1914 Birthday - Charles Drake, Bayside New York City, actor, Air Force, Glenn Miller Story

1914 Birthday - Robert Wise, director, Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story

1913 Birthday - Delmore Schwartz, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Shenandoah

1910 Birthday - Jack Hawkins, London, actor, Ben-Four Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story

1910 Birthday - Bill Goodwin, born in San Francisco, California, announcer, Jolson Story, Burns and Allen

1909 Birthday - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., New York City, actor, Ghost Story

1909 Birthday - Josephine Hutchinson, born in Seattle, Washington, actress, Story of Louis Pasteur

1908 Birthday - Ben Grauer, New York City, newscaster, Big Story

1907 Birthday - Howard Joslin, Georgia, actor, Quebec, Detective Story

1907 Birthday - Richard Harkness, Artesian, South Dakota, newscaster, Story of the Week, NBC

1906 Birthday - Bob Considine, sports columnist, Bob Feller Story

1906 Birthday - Henry Roth, born in Galicia, Austro-Hungary, writer, short story writer, novelist, Call It Sleep considered masterpiece of Jewish American literature

1906 Birthday - William Bendix, born in New York City, actor, Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life of Riley

1905 Birthday - Boyd Neel, born in London, England, conductor, Story of an Orchestra

1904 Birthday - Edward Chodorov, playwright/director, Story of Louis Pasteur

1902 Birthday - Kathryn Forbes, short story writer, mama's bank account

1901 Birthday - Melvyn Douglas, born in Macon, Georgia, actor, Hud, Ghost Story

1900 Birthday - Ludwig Donath, actor, Jolson Story, Jolson Sings Again

1900 Birthday - Mildred Dunnock, Balt, actress, Baby Doll, Nun's Story

1899 Birthday - Conrad Aiken, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Selected Poems

1899 Birthday - George Cukor, producer/director, Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story

1898 Birthday - Ariel Durant, writer, Story of Civilization

1896 Birthday - Philip Barry, U.S., dramatist, Philadelphia Story

1894 Birthday - Will Wright, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Living Christ Story

1894 Birthday - Henry Daniell, born in London, actor, Camille, Philadelphia Story, Body Snatchers

1893 Birthday - Roy Del Ruth, director, About Face, Babe Ruth Story, Star Show

1893 Birthday - Mario R de Morais Andrade, Brazilian writer/poet/story teller

1893 Event - English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit

1893 Birthday - Dorothy Parker, New Jersey, short story writer, 1958 Marjorie Peabody Award

1891 Birthday - Paul de Keyser, Flemish story teller/philologist/folklorist

1889 Birthday - Alfred E. Green, born in Perris, California, director, Copacabana, Jolson Story

1889 Birthday - Margery Allingham, detective story writer

1887 Birthday - Alexander Woollcott, New Jersey, short story writer, Man Who Came to Dinner

1885 Birthday - Will Durant, U.S., author/historian, Story of Civilization

1885 Birthday - Louis Untermeyer, New York City, poet and critic, Immortal Poems, Story Poems

1885 Birthday - Mary Nash, Troy, New York, actress, Philadelphia Story, Till the Clouds Roll By

1885 Birthday - Sacha Guitry, France, actor and playwright, Story of a Cheat

1882 Birthday - Geraldine Farrar, U.S. soprano/actress, Story of American Singer

1882 Birthday - Ludvig Nordstrom, Sweden, writer, Story of Peter Svensk

1882 Birthday - Noah Beery, Smithville AR, actor, Story of Esther, Mark of Zorro

1882 Birthday - Hendrik W van Loon, Netherland, commentator/writer, Story of America

1881 Birthday - Mary MacLane, born in Winnipeg, Canada, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month

1875 Birthday - Elizabeth Patterson, Savannah, Tennessee, actress, Climax, Tall Story

1871 Death - Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies

1871 Death - Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45

1861 Birthday - Georges Melies, Paris, magician; 1st to film a fictional story

1841 Event - 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published

1836 Birthday - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S., author/editor, Story of a Bad Boy

1835 Event - N.Y. Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel

1826 Birthday - Alexander Aphanashev, Russian story teller, Narodnye roesskie skazki

1811 Death - Samuel Story, Dutch rear Admiral (Battle of Kamperduin), dies at 58

1798 Birthday - Thomas Crofton Croker, Irish story teller, Fairy legends

1792 Birthday - Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma, Fries story teller, Rhymes and Tales

1786 Birthday - Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller, Grimm's Fairy Tales

1785 Birthday - Arvir A. Afzelius, Swedish story teller

1779 Birthday - Joseph Story, Massachusetts, 19th Supreme Court justice, 1812-45

1752 Birthday - Samuel Story, Dutch Admiral, Battle at Kamperduin

1709 Event - British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"

1608 Event - John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication

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