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2012 Event - A truth commission created by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff convenes to investigate the country's military dictatorship

1996 Death - Anne Kristen, actress (Truth or Dare, Rachel-Dr. Finlay), dies at 59

1994 Death - Henry Morgan, TV panalist (To Tell the Truth), dies of cancer at 74

1994 Death - Walter Janka, German writer (Troubles with Truth), dies at 79

1993 Death - Willy C of Hemert, director/(text)poet (Small Truth), dies at 81

1990 Event - Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)

1986 Death - Cary Grant, actor, 'Charade', 'Awful Truth', dies in Davenport, Iowa at 82

1985 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct

1985 Event - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge

1981 Birthday - Nicole Richie, actress, socialite, known for television series, 'The Simple Life' with Paris Hilton, author of 'The Truth About Diamonds'

1979 Death - Paul Meurisse, actor (Diabolique, Truth, Suspects, Monocle), dies

1977 Death - Henri-Georges Clouzot, director (Diabolique, Truth), dies at 69

1973 Birthday - Kate Beckinsale, born in London, England, actress, films include, 'Pearl Harbor', 'Nothing But the Truth', 'Underworld', 'Serendipity'

1970 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)

1969 Death - Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61

1969 Event - Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumors he is dead

1968 Event - Truth in Lending Act signed into law

1966 Birthday - Tea Leoni, New York City, actress, Flying Blind, Naked Truth

1964 Birthday - Janeane Garofalo, born in New Jersey, comedienne, SNL, Truth about Cats and Dogs

1963 Event - John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty

1959 Birthday - Tamar Baruch, actress, Small Truth, Q and Q

1959 Event - Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, and peace, in charity"

1958 Event - Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission

1957 Event - Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"

1956 Event - "To Tell the Truth" debuts on CBS-TV

1945 Birthday - Willeke Alberti, Verbruggen, Dutch vocalist/actress, Small Truth

1943 Birthday - Holland Taylor, Philadelphia, actress, Bossom Buddies, Camilla-Naked Truth

1942 Event - Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit

1940 Event - 1st edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes

1940 Event - 1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS

1937 Birthday - Anne Kristen, actress, Truth or Dare, Rachel-Dr. Finlay, Sunset Song

1928 Birthday - Orson Bean, Burlington, Vermont, actor/comedian, To Tell the Truth

1927 Birthday - Joop F. Wolff, Dutch editor, Truth, Dutch politician, CPN

1926 Birthday - Hildy Park, born in Washington D.C., actress, To Tell the Truth

1924 Birthday - Peggy Cass, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress/TV panelist, To Tell the Truth, Mame

1922 Event - BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas"

1910 Birthday - Kitty Carlisle, born in Louisiana, American singer, spokeswoman for the arts, actress, 'To Tell The Truth' panelist

1908 Birthday - Bud Collyer, born in New York City, TV emcee, Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth

1907 Event - Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in New York City

1901 Birthday - Lev N. Lunts, Russia, writer, Outside the Law, City of Truth

1900 Birthday - Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, English writer, Fiction as Truth

1899 Birthday - Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician, CPN, Editor, The Truth

1893 Birthday - D Ivor D Novello, British composer/writer, Truth Game

1888 Birthday - Paul Althaus, German theologist, The Christian Truth

1883 Death - Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96

1851 Event - Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention

1851 Event - Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)

1843 Event - Sojourner Truth leaves New York to begin her career as antislavery activist

1803 Death - James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies at 67

1787 Birthday - Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/feminist

1735 Birthday - James Beattie, Scotland, poet/philosopher, Essay on Truth













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