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1944 – Dan Glickman, American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Agriculture; 1945 – Nuruddin Farah, Somali novelist [21] 1945 – Lee Michaels, American singer-songwriter and musician [20] 1946 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989) [19] 1946 – Tony Clarkin, English guitarist and songwriter (d. 2024)
January 3 - René Gimpel, French art dealer (b. 1881) January 7 – Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (b. 1870) February 7 – H. J. Ward, American illustrator (b. 1909) February 21 – Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Danish sculptor (born 1863) March 5 – Albert Richards, English war artist (b. 1919); killed on active service in the ...
November 23 – Charles Armijo Woodruff, U.S. Navy officer and 11th Governor of American Samoa from 1914 to 1915 (born 1884; suicide) November 25 – Doris Keane, stage actress (born 1881) November 26 – John Jenkins, auto racer (born 1875) November 28 – Dwight F. Davis, tennis player (born 1879) December 4 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, biologist ...
The 3 November 1945 declaration was made in Indonesia, encouraging the formation of political parties as part of democracy.; Irvin Charles Mollison was sworn in as a U.S. Customs Court judge in New York City, becoming the first African-American to serve on the federal bench within the continental United States.
Highlights of this day in history: Jack Ruby fatally shoots Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas; Charles Darwin publishes theory of evolution; Hijacker known as D.B. Cooper parachutes out of plane with ...
November 21 – Goldie Hawn, American actress Kalervo Kummola – Finnish ice hockey executive, businessman, and politician; November 22 – Kari Tapio, Finnish singer (d. 2010) November 23 – Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer (d. 2018) [75] November 24 – Nuruddin Farah, Somali novelist; November 25 – Mary Jo Deschanel, American actress
2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 people. 2015 – A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down by a Turkish fighter jet after the former allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course.
From Veterans Day to Christmas, here are the dates of the 2024 federal holidays. New Year’s Day: Monday, January 1 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Monday, January 15