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On this day in 1992, Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced they are separating.

Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade,"
was published in England on this day in 1854.

Solidarity Union leader Lech Walesa won Poland’s first direct
presidential election in the country’s history on this day in 1990.

Lech Wałęsa turned 74 in September.

Kirk Douglas in Spartacus 1960.

Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch) is 101 years old today.

Actor, producer, director, and author Kirk Douglas is one of the
last living people of the film industry’s Golden Age. During his
career he appeared in more than 90 movies. He has received
three Academy Award nominations, an Oscar for Lifetime
Achievement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As an
author, he has written ten novels and memoirs. Currently, he
is No. 17 on the American Film Institute‘s list of the greatest
male screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema.

CARLATA BRADLEY

On this day in 1962,  U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson (below) presented
photographic evidence to the United Nations Security Council. The photos 
were of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II 
(February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965)

The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and admit mainland China
on this day in 1971.

On this day in 1983, U.S. troops and soldiers from six Caribbean nations
invaded Grenada to restore order and provide protection to U.S. citizens
after a recent coup within Grenada’s Communist (pro-Cuban) government.

The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War on this
day in 1854. The British were winning the Battle of Balaclava when Lord
James Cardigan received an order to attack the Russians. He took his troops
into a valley and suffered 40 percent caualties. Later it was revealed that the
order was the result of confusion and was not given intentionally.

Professional Golfer Payne Stewart was the U.S.Open champion in
1991 and 1999. His chartered jet lost pressurization shortly after
takeoff, then crashed several hours later. He was 42.

Learjet 35 N47BA Prior to the crash in a field near Aberdeen, South
Dakota.

Poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – October 25, 1400) 

ROSS SIMPSON

              
                Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)

                      
                              Published originally in January 1845.

The first class of baseball “Hall of Famers” was comprised of 
Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and
Walter Johnson.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Kirk Douglas from Spartacus in1960.

Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch) is 100 today!

Kirk Douglas was a successful competitive wrestler in
college. His first major film was 1947’s Out of the Past.

Annelies Marie Frank  (June 12, 1929 – February or March 1945)

(FOXNEWS) – The Netherlands’ Bubb Kuyper auction house expected the eight-
line poem on a piece of old paper to sell for thousands. They just didn’t expect
to go for $148,000.

For that price, an anonymous bidder has become the owner of a poem signed
by Anne Frank on March 28, 1942. According to reports, her family was forced
into hiding in Amsterdam on July 6 of that year.

The poem was initially sent to the older sister of one of Anne’s friends, Jacqueline
van Maarsen. However, van Maarsen says her sister, who died in 2006, gave it
to her around 1970. According to the auction website, van Maarsen decided to
sell the poem.

The opening lines of the poem, written in a “poezie album,” or friendship book, 
are traditional lines of encouragement that might have come from a 1930s
Dutch periodical.

The closing verses — which may be Anne’s own — say:

If others have reproached you

For what you have done wrong

Then be sure to amend your mistake

That is the best answer one can make.