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Facts
43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and politician is assassinated in Formiae
1909 Inventor Leo Baekeland patents the first thermo-setting plastic, Bakelite, sparking the birth of the plastics industry
1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people
1965 Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
1988 PLO delegation lead by Yasir Arafat proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizing the existence of the State of Israel for the first time
1988 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia kills 25,000-50,000 people and leaves up to 500,000 homeless
Deaths
43 BC Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher, killed as part of the proscriptions at 63
1834 Ludwig Schuncke, composer, dies at 23
1902 Thomas Nast, US political cartoonist, dies at 62
1943 John Bouber, [Blom], actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at 22
1970 Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist (Mike & Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87
1980 Darby Crash, American Punk rocker (Germs), dies of an overdose at 22
1997 Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer dies at 54 from a suspected heart attack
2011 Harry Morgan, American actor (MAS*H) dies at 96
Born on this day
1971 Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player
1980 John Terry, English footballer
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
Rube Goldberg
Billy Bremner