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Facts
1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England on a circumnavigationof the world
1774 First incident of American Revolution - 400 attack Ft William and Mary, New Hampshire
2002 Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
2003 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit, during Operation Red Dawn by US forces
Deaths
838 Pippijn I, King of Aquitania, dies
1466 Donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386)
1863 Friedrich Hebbel, writer, dies at 50
1924 Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74
1945 Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer, dies at 83
1961 Grandma Moses [Anna M], US painter, dies at 101
1973 Henry Green, English author (b. 1905)
1990 Alice Marble, California, tennis star, dies at 77
1992 K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (b. 1899)
2004 David Wheeler, English computer scientist (b. 1927)
2016 Thomas Schelling, American economist, (Nobel Prize 2005 - game-theory analysis), dies at 95
Born on this day
1967 Jamie Foxx, American actor (Ray, In Living Color) comedian and musician, born in Terrell, Texas
1989 Taylor Swift, American singer/songwriter (Our Song), born in Reading, Pennsylvania
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
Alice Marble
Thomas Schelling