100 years anniversary |
20 Dec 1924
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birth
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Errol John: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago -- Actor (PT-109, Assault on a Queen)
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20 Dec 1924
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birth
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Ingeborg E A "Inge" Beekman: Actress (Horizon)
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20 Dec 1924
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event
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Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
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20 Dec 1924
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birth
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Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1980) |
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20 Dec 1924
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event
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Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison |
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20 Dec 1924
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history
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WW2
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Vice Admiral Eizaburo Fujiwara was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan.
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20 Dec 1924
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birth
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Charlie Callas Brooklyn NY, comedian/actor (High Anxiety, Hysterical)
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20 Dec 1924
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birth
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Errol John Port-of-Spain Trinidad, actor (PT-109, Assault on a Queen)
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20 Dec 1924
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birth
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F Mayr
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20 Dec 1924
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birth
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Inge[borg] Beekman actress (Horizon)
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20 Dec 1924
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event
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Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
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75 years anniversary |
20 Dec 1949
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birth
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Claudia Jennings [Mary Ellen Chestrerton]: Minnesota, United States -- Playmate (Nov, 1969)
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20 Dec 1949
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birth
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Soumaïla Cissé, Malian engineer and politician |
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20 Dec 1949
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birth
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Cecil Cooper, American baseball player and manager |
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20 Dec 1949
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birth
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Oscar Gamble, American baseball player |
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20 Dec 1949
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birth
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Leigh Hamilton, New Zealand-American actress (d. 2012) |
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20 Dec 1949
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birth
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Claudia Jennings [Mary Ellen Chestrerton] Minnesota, playmate (November 1969)
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20 Dec 1949
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event
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Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty & the Beast" premieres
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50 years anniversary |
20 Dec 1974
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birth
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Augie Ojeda: Los Angeles, California -- Baseball infielder (1996 Olympics - Bronze Medalist)
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20 Dec 1974
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event
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Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
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20 Dec 1974
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event
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George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in the UK
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20 Dec 1974
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birth
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Die, Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Dir En Grey) |
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20 Dec 1974
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death
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Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (b. 1896) |
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20 Dec 1974
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death
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André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905) |
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20 Dec 1974
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music
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Former James Gang guitarist Joe Walsh officially replaced Bernie Leadon in The Eagles.
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20 Dec 1974
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birth
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Augie Ojeda Los Angeles CA, baseball infielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
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20 Dec 1974
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death
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Andr
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20 Dec 1974
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event
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George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK
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20 Dec 1974
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event
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Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
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25 years anniversary |
20 Dec 1999
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death
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Riccardo Freda, Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1909) |
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20 Dec 1999
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death
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Hank Snow, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914) |
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20 Dec 1999
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event
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Macau is handed over to China by Portugal. |
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20 Dec 1999
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music
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Readers of UK Guitar magazine voted Noel Gallagher the most overrated guitarist of the millennium. Jimi Hendrix was voted guitarist of the millennium with Nirvana's 'Nevermind' winning best album.
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20 Dec 1999
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music
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Canadian Country singer Hank Snow died. 'The Singing Ranger' released over 100 albums and scored more than seventy singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980. A regular at the Grand Ole Opry, in 1954 Snow persuaded the directors to allow a new singer by the name of Elvis Presley to appear at the Grand Ole Opry.
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20 Dec 1999
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event
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Portugal returns Macau to China
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20 years anniversary |
20 Dec 2004
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event
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A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history. |
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15 years anniversary |
20 Dec 2009
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death
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Mairoon Ali, Trinidadian actress (b. 1954) |
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20 Dec 2009
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death
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Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer (b. 1977) |
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20 Dec 2009
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death
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Arnold Stang, American actor and singer (b. 1918) |
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20 Dec 2009
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music
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Larry Knechtel, the keyboard player for the Soft-Rock group Bread, died following a heart attack at the age of 69. Knechtel earned a Grammy award for his arrangement of Simon and Garfunkel's 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' and also performed with Neil Diamond, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams Jr., The Dixie Chicks and Elvis Costello.
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10 years anniversary |
20 Dec 2014
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death
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Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish surgeon and academic (b. 1929) |
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20 Dec 2014
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death
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John Freeman, English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (b. 1915) |
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20 Dec 2014
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death
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Ranulph Glanville, English architect and academic (b. 1946) |
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20 Dec 2014
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death
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Bob Lanier, American lawyer, banker, and politician, 58th Mayor of Houston (b. 1925) |
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20 Dec 2014
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death
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William Lowell Putnam III, American mountaineer and businessman (b. 1924) |
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20 Dec 2014
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event
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Two police officers of the New York City Police Department are shot and killed, allegedly in retaliation against the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. |
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20 Dec 2014
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music
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A single dubbed the rarest record in the world sold for £14,543 at auction. The London Records' pressing of Darrell Banks 'Open the Door to Your Heart', was thought to be the only copy in circulation. Banks, who toured with soul singer Jackie Wilson, only released two albums before he was killed in Detroit in February 1970. He was shot in the neck by an off-duty policeman, who had been having an affair with Banks's girlfriend. 'Open the Door to Your Heart' was his only hit, reaching No.2 on the R&B chart in the US.
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