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Nicola Sacco (left) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Rudolph Valentino
(Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguella)

(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926)

Italian actor Rudolph Valentino starred in several well-known silent films including
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), The Sheik, Blood and Sand (1922),
The Eagle, (1925) and The Son of the Sheik (1926). He was an early pop icon, a
sex symbol of the 1920s, who was known as the "Latin lover".  He had applied for U.S.citizenship shortly before his untimely death from Pleuritis, an inflammation of 
of the membranes that surround the lungs. He was 31.   

Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Banky.

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Soviet hard-liners announced on this day in 1991, President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power. Gorbachev returned to
power two days later.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev turned 86 in March.

On this day in 1934, Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive
power in Germany as Fuehrer.

Francis Gary Powers (center), an American U-2 pilot, was convicted
of espionage in Moscow on this day in 1960.

Inventor and television pioneer, Philo Farnsworth made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-
electronic television. He was also the first person to demonstrate
such a system to the public.

Philo Taylor Farnsworth
(August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971)

On this day in 1977.

On this day in 1998, President Clinton admitted to having an
improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House
intern.

The Klondike gold rush was set off by George Carmack (below) who
discovered gold on Rabbit Creek in Alaska.

George Washington Carmack,
from California.

Robert Fulton’s "North River Steam Boat" (known as the "Clermont") began heading up New York’s Hudson River on its successful round-
trip to Albany on this day in 1807.

Robert Fulton 
(11-14-1765 – 2-24-1815

It happened on this day in 1987.

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess 
(April 26, 1894 – August 17, 1987) 

Robert Anthony De Niro is 74 years old today.

Legendary actor Robert De Niro won an Academy Award for Best Actor for
his role as Jake LaMotta in the 1980 boxing film Raging Bull and an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in the 1974
classic The Godfather Part II.

2001

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On this day in 1974, President Nixon announced that he would
resign the following day.

It was on this day in 1942.

Dustin Lee Hoffman is 80 years old today.

Famous method actor Dustin Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best
Actor for Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979 and Rain Man in 1988. He had his
breakthrough role as Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 classic The Graduate.

He began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse with his roommate
and fellow actor Gene Hackman. 

1969

1982

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Anne Frank was arrested by Nazi police on this day in 1944.

Anne Frank wrote her diary from June 12, 1942 to August 1, 1944.

On this day in 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. The U.S.
proclaimed its neutrality.

It was on this day in 1964.

On this day in 1892.

The murder suspect Lizzie Borden.

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971)