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Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. 1820 – 10 March 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the US Civil War. After escaping from captivity, she made thirteen missions to rescue some seventy slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage. (read more...)
he have funny name
- ...that former child actor Richard Eyer, who played the boy who runs "afowl" of the goose in William Wyler's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, is now an elementary school teacher in Bishop, California?
- ...that 1985 NCAA hurdling champion Thomas Wilcher won the Michigan High School Athletic Association team track & field championship three consecutive times, both as an athlete and a coach?
- ...that after winning three medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a 16-year-old, Anita Nall retired from competitive swimming in 2000 due to chronic fatigue syndrome?
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- 1776 - Bernardo O'Higgins, (pictured) South American revolutionary (d. 1842)
- 1779 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
- 1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
- 1845 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916)
- 1873 - Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1950)
- 1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
- 1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
- 1913 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
- 1916 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (d. 1984)
- 1923 - Jim Reeves, American singer (d. 1964)
- 1941 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (d. 2006)
- 1943 - Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
- 1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
- 1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
- 1974 - Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
Deaths
- 1672 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
- 1672 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
- 1811 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
- 1912 - William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829)
- 2001 - Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915)
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