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Apr 15, 2006 11:56

From your birthday, list: Four Events, Three Births, Two Deaths, and One Holiday
Events:
1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1831 - James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
1958 - Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1967 - The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released

Births:
1563 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster
1926 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress
1937 - Morgan Freeman, American actor

Deaths:
193 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (bought Rome from Praetorian Guard)
1660 - Mary Dyer, English Quaker (last religious martyr of North America)

Holiday:
Commemoration of Justin Martyr (Anglican)
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