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Today's Birthdays:
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799), Italian mathematician, linguist, philosopher
- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804-1894), educator, activist, founder of first American kindergarten
- Olga Korbut (b.1955), Belarusian gymnast, four-time Olympic gold medalist
- Liberace (Wladziu Valentino, 1919-1987), American charismatic pianist of Polish-Italian ancestry
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Historical Events On This Day:
- U.S. National Bike to Work Day
- Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England, 1532
- Marie Antoinette, 14, marries Louis-Auguste, 15, who will become King of France, 1770
- Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia, 1836
- First major wagon train with 1,000 pioneers sets out from Elm Grove, Missouri on Oregon Trail heading for Northwest territory, 1843
- First U.S. nickel, or five cent piece, minted replacing the half dime coin, 1866
- Universal Peace Union founded in Providence, RI, USA by Alfred Love 1866
- President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial by one vote in U.S. Senate, 1868
- Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint, 1920
- Academy Awards first presented on this evening in Hollywood, 1929
- Junko Tabei, Japanese climber, becomes first woman to reach summit of Mount Everest, 1975
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