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Jean Renoir, French film maker (Grand Illusion, The Rules of the Game,) born (1894)

Agatha Christie, English mystery writer (Murder on the Orient Express), born (1890)

James Fenimore Cooper, first major American novelist (The Last of the Mohicans), born (1789)

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William Howard Taft, 27th president of the U.S. (1909-13), born (1857)

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Robert Penn Warren, writer, critic, and teacher (All the King’s Men) died (1989)

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International environmental organization Greenpeace founded in Vancouver, Canada (1971)

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• Tracking Sea Turtles: Lessons in Saving an Endangered Species

British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution (1776)

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The bombing of a Black church in Birmingham, Alabama killed four young children and mobilized the civil rights movement (1963)

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Tanks first used in combat during the Allied offensive at the Battle of the Somme WWI (1916)

U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs renamed the Department of State

Alexander Fleming, a Scottish scientist, discovered that a mold called Penicillin killed germs (1928)

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