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Robert Duvall
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Robert Duvall

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Robert Selden Duvall was an American actor, filmmaker, and producer. Duvall started acting professionally on the stage in 1952, performing in summer plays at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport on Long Island. He continued there until 1959, with a one-year break serving in the U. S. Army. He made contacts there that then…

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Jesse Louis Jackson was an American civil rights activist, LGBTQ rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minis…

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On This Day

10 events
2011
Arab_Spring
Arab Spring: Bahraini security forces killed four protesters in a pre-dawn raid at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, while the "Day of Rage" took place in Libya with nationwide protests against Muammar Gaddafi's government.
1996
1996_Biak_earthquake
An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 8.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent) occurred in the New Guinea Trench, which generated a tsunami that killed 108 people.
1978
The_Troubles
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army carried out a bombing of a restaurant near Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing twelve people and injuring thirty others.
1974
Bell_UH-1_Iroquois
A U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter (pictured) and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C.
1964
1964_Gabonese_coup_d'état
Gabonese military officers overthrew President Léon M'ba, but French forces, honouring a 1960 treaty, forcibly reinstated him two days later.
1959
Vanguard_2
Vanguard 2 (model pictured), the first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud cover distribution.
1944
World_War_II
World War II: The U.S. Navy began Operation Hailstone, a massive naval air and surface attack against the Japanese naval and air base at Chuuk Lagoon in the Caroline Islands.
1913
Armory_Show
The Armory Show (commemorative button pictured), the first large modern-art exhibition in the United States, opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City.
1904
Giacomo_Puccini
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly premiered at La Scala in Milan to poor reviews, forcing him to revise the opera.
1894
Rudolf_Diesel
Rudolf Diesel's first working diesel engine ran for one minute.

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