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Facts
1843 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens
1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford
1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov assassinated, Stalin uses as excuse to begin the Great Purge of 1934-38
1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama
1982 "Thriller", 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983)
1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
Deaths
660 Eligius [Eloy], French patron saint of horses, goldsmiths and metalworkers who as bishop of Tournay-Noyon spent 20 years converting the pagan population of Flanders to Christianity, dies at around 72
1241 Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)
1521 Leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Italian Pope (1513-21), dies at 45
1581 Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550)
1755 Maurice Greene, English composer, dies at 59
1808 Anton Fischer, composer, dies at 30
1947 Hardy, mathematician, dies
1973 David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel, dies in Tel Aviv at 87
1986 Robert L "Bobby" Layne, football player (Detroit Lions), dies at 59
1990 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian diplomat and politician, dies at 90
1991 Byron Webster, actor (That Man Bolt), dies of AIDS at 58
2008 Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)
Born on this day
1968 Justin Chadwick, British actor and director
1988 Tyler Joseph, American singer-songwriter (Twenty One Pilots), born in Columbus, Ohio
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
Robert L "Bobby" Layne
Paul Benedict