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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...) dont be silly
Walt Whitman (born Walter Whitman) (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist born in West Hills, Huntington on Long Island in New York. His most famous works are the poetry collections Leaves of Grass and Drum-Taps. (read more...)
Photo credit: George C. Cox (1887), Source: Library of Congress.
- ...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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Births
- 1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
- 1720 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
- 1748 - Jacques-Louis David, (pictured) French painter (d. 1825)
- 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
- 1821 - Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849)
- 1871 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1937)
- 1893 - Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
- 1930 - Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
- 1943 - Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
- 1954 - Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
- 1972 - Cameron Diaz, American actress
- 1982 - Andy Roddick, American tennis player
Deaths
- 526 - Theodoric the Great (b. 454)
- 1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
- 1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
- 1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
- 1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
- 1963 - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
- 2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
- 2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
- 2006 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
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