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1965
1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar).
Events
January-February
March
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March 7 - Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama
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March 8 - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam
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March 8 - First US combat forces arrive in Vietnam
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March 9 - Second march from Selma to Montgomery under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. stops at the bridge that was the site of Bloody Sunday to hold a prayer service and return to Selma in obedience to a court restraining order.
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March 10 - Goldie, a London Zoo golden eagle is recaptured after 13 days of freedom
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March 11 - White supremacists beat up white Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Alabama. He dies later
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March 18 - cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space
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March 21 - Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes
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March 21 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. begin march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery
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March 23 - NASA launches Gemini 3 which is the United States' first two-person space flight took (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
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March 25 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully end march from Selma, arriving at the capitol in Montgomery
April
May-June
July
August
September
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September 2 - Pakistani troops enter the Indian sector of Kashmir
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September 6 - Indian troops march on Lahore
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September 7 - China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border
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September 7 - Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight , United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna on the Batangan Peninsula , 23 miles south of the Chu Lai Marine base
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September 8 - India opens two additional fronts against Pakistan
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September 9 - UN secretary general U Thant negotiates with Pakistani president Ayub Khan
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September 9 - U Thant recommends China for UN membership
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September 13 - Congress of Arab countries begins in Casablanca - Habib Bourgiba boycotts the meeting
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September 14 - Opening of fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council
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September 16 - China protests against Indian provocations in its border region
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September 16 - In Iraq, Prime Minister Razzak 's attempted coup fails
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September 17 - Stefan Stafanopoulos forms a new government in Greece and ends a two-year old political crisis
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September 18 - China claims that US troops have used poison gas in South Vietnam
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September 18 - In Denmark, Palle Sörensen shoots four policemen in pursuit - apprehended the same day
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September 19 - Soviet prime minister Alexei Kosygin invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in Soviet Union to negotiate
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September 20 - End of term for Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail as the 3rd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
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September 21 - Commander of US troops in Vietnam, general William Westmoreland, pleads Washington to cancel the ban to use mustard gas
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September 21 - Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III, Sultan of Terengganu becomes the 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
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September 22 - Peking Radio announces that Indian troops have dismantled their equipment on the Chinese side of the border
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September 24 - Fighting between Indian and Pakistani troops erupts again
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September 24 - British governor of Aden cancels the Aden constitution and takes direct control of the protectorate because of the bad security situation
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September 27 - Largest tanker ship at the time, Tokyo Maru , launched in Yokohama
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September 28 - Fidel Castro announces that everybody who wants can immigrate to USA
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September 28 - Taal volcano in Luzon, Philippines, erupts - hundreds dead
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September 30 – Attempted communist coup in Indonesia. Indonesian army crushes it with the lead of general Suharto
October
November
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November 2 - Republican John V. Lindsay elected mayor of New York City
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November 3 - Charles De Gaulle announces that he will stand in next presidential election
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November 4 - US racer Craig Freedlove makes a female speed record
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November 5 - Martial law announced in Rhodesia. UN general council accept British intent to use force against Rhodesia in necessary with votes 82-9
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November 6 - Freedom Flights begin: Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States (by 1971 250,000 Cubans take advantage of this program).
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November 8 - The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands (on June 23, 1976 Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches were returned to Seychelles).
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November 9 - Northeast Blackout of 1965: Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
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November 9 - Vietnam War: In New York City, 22-year old Catholic Worker Movement member Roger Allen LaPorte sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building in protest of the war in Vietnam (this was the second such incident in a week; on November 2 32-year-old Quaker member Norman Morrison did the same thing in front of The Pentagon)
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November 11 - Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) is declared independent by the white minority regime of Ian Smith
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November 12 - UN Security Council resolution (voted 10-0) recommends that other countries would not recognize independent Rhodesia
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November 14 - Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang begins - In the Ia Drang Valley of the Central Highlands in Vietnam, the first major engagement of the war between regular American and North Vietnamese forces begins
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November 16 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe from Baikonur, Kazakhstan toward Venus (on March 1, 1966 it became the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet)
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November 16 - Disney launches Epcot Center
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November 20 - UN Security Council recommends that all states stop trading with Rhodesia
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November 23 - Soviet general Mikhail Kazakov becomes commander of Warsaw Pact
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November 24 - Queen Elizabeth of Belgium dies
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November 25 - Joseph Mobutu takes over in Congo through a military coup
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November 26 - At the Hammaguira launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter space.
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November 27 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells US President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned major sweep operations needed to neutralize Viet Cong forces during the next year were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000
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November 28 - Vietnam War: In response to US President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
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November 29 - Canadian satellite Alouette 2 is launched.
December
Unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
January-February
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January 1 - Laura Ingraham, talk show host and author
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January 9 - Joely Richardson, actress
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January 15 - Adam Jones, musician of Tool
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January 20 - Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones, future Countess of Wessex
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January 22 - DJ Jazzy Jeff, rapper, actor
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January 27 - Alan Cumming, actor
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January 29 - Dominik Hasek, ice hockey player
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February 1 - Brandon Lee, actor, son of Bruce Lee (d. 1993)
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February 1 - Sherilyn Fenn, actress
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February 1 - Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
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February 11 - Angie Ridgeway , golfer
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February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor
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February 18 - Dr. Dre, rap music performer, music producer
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February 23 - Michael Dell, founder of Dell, Inc.
March-April
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March 1 - Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
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March 4 - Gary Helms, Kick-boxer USA
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March 7 - Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
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March 9 - Benito Santiago, baseball player
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March 10 - Rod Woodson, American football player
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March 11 - Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter
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March 12 - Steve Finley, Major League Baseball All-Star
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March 14 - Kevin Brown, baseball player
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March 24 - Mark Calaway, professional wrestler The Undertaker
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March 25 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
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April 4 - Robert Downey Jr., actor
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April 7 - Bill Bellamy, actor, comedian (Fled , Any Given Sunday, Fastlane)
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April 14 - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, suspected military head of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda (his birth date is also reported to be March 1, 1964)
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April 15 - Linda Perry, musician
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April 16 - Martin Lawrence, actor, comedian, producer
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April 21 - Ed Belfour, NHL goalie
May-August
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May 9 - Steve Yzerman, ice hockey player
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May 14 - Eoin Colfer, writer
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May 15 - Lizi Rodriguez , psychologist and media psychotherapist
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May 16 - Krist Novoselic, Nirvana bassist
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May 17 - Trent Reznor, musician (Nine Inch Nails)
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May 28 - Chris Ballew, musician
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May 31 - Brooke Shields, actress
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June 1 - Nigel Short, chess player
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June 4 - Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
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June 7 - Mick Foley, professional wrestler and author
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June 10 - Elizabeth Hurley, actress
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June 15 - Bernard Hopkins, boxer
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June 16 - Charika Corea,Sri Lankan autism campaigner
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July 19 - Stuart Scott, sports reporter
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July 22 - Shawn Michaels, professional wrestler
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July 26 - Sandra Bullock, actress
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July 28 - Lori Loughlin, actress
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July 31 - Joanne Kathleen Rowling, author of Harry Potter
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August 10 - John Starks, basketball player
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August 14 - Emmanuelle Béart, Cesar Award winning actress
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August 24 - Reggie Miller, basketball star
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August 28 - Shania Twain, singer/songwriter
September-December
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September 11 - Moby, musician
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September 21 - Cheryl Hines, actress (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Father of the Pride)
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September 25 - Scottie Pippen, NBA star
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October 5 - Mario Lemieux, hockey star
- October 5 - Patrick Roy, hockey star
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November 2 - Shah Rukh Khan, actor
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November 6 - Greg Graffin, singer and founder of Bad Religion
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November 7 - Sigrun Wodars, East German athlete
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November 21 - Alexander Siddig, actor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
- November 21 - Björk, Icelandic singer/songwriter/musician
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November 25 - Cris Carter, American football player
- November 25 - Bernie Kosar, American football quarterback
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November 30 - Ben Stiller, actor (There's Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Zoolander)
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December 3 - Steve Harris, actor (The Practice, Minority Report)
- December 3 - Katarina Witt, figure skater
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December 14 - Craig Biggio, baseball player
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December 19 - Chito Martinez, baseball player
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December 20 - Rich Gannon, American football quarterback
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December 27 - Salman Khan, actor, India
Deaths
January-June
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January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet
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January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry, writer
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January 14 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress, singer (b. 1903)
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January 20 - Alan Freed, disk jockey
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January 24 - Winston Churchill, British politician
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January 28 - Maxime Weygand, soldier
- January 28 - Tich Freeman, record-breaking Kent leg spinner (b. 1888).
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February 13 - Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt, socialite
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February 15 - Nat King Cole, singer, musician
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February 21 - Malcolm X, Black Muslim Movement activist
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February 22 - Felix Frankfurter, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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February 23 - Stan Laurel, British actor
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February 26 - George Adamski, UFO traveler
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March 6 - Margaret Dumont, actress
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March 13 - Corrado Gini, statistician
- March 13 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet and political figure (b. 1882)
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March 17 - Amos Alonzo Stagg, baseball, basketball and American football coach and player
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March 18 - King Farouk I of Egypt
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March 28 - Her Royal Highness Princess Mary, The Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
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May 25 - Sonny Boy Williamson
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June 28 - Red Nichols, jazz musician (b. 1905)
July-December
Last updated: 10-22-2005 02:48:42
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