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This Day in History

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	1997: INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence commits suicide in Sydney. Learn more about Michael Hutchence and INXS. 1975: Juan Carlos I is sworn in as king of Spain, the country’s first monarch for over 40 years. Learn more about Juan Carlos I. 1869: The celebrated clipper, Cutty Sark, the fastest clipper ever built, is launched at Dumbarton, Scotland. Learn more about Clippers. 1943: The Cairo Conference opens in Egypt, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek meeting to define Allied war aims with respect to Japan. Learn more about the Cairo Conference 1718: The notorious pirate Blackbeard is killed by a Royal Navy boarding party in a North Carolina inlet. Learn more about Blackbeard. 1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Learn more about John F. Kennedy.

Born On This Day



	Cecil James Sharp, musician (1859) Thomas Cook, travel agent (1808) Charles de Gaulle, French soldier and statesman (1890) Peter Hall, stage director and theatre manager (1930) George Eliot, novelist (1819) Wiley Post, American aviator (1899) Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer (1901) Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (1899)

Mystery Person of the Day

Who am I? I was born on this day in 1913. My operas were among the finest of the 20th century.

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