Birthday milestones for actors musicians and more
Actress Lauren Bacall turns 77 while blues icon B B King reaches 76. Clergyman author Robert Schuller is 75 and Peter Falk is 74. Martha the Vandellas singer Betty Kelly is 57. Kenney Jones of Small Faces and The Who is 53. Ed Begley Jr is 52. Weather anchor Mark McEwen is 47. Comedian Molly Shannon is 37 and Madeline Zima is 16.
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Lauren Bacall
B.B. King
Robert Schuller
Peter Falk
Betty Kelly
Martha the Vandellas
Kenney Jones
Faces
The
Who
Ed Begley Jr
Mark McEwen
Molly Shannon
Madeline Zima
Timeline of notable events from 1638 to 1982
The passage lists key historical milestones including Louis XIV’s birth in 1638, Mexico’s 1810 revolt, Oklahoma’s Cherokee Strip settlement in 1893, the 1940 first peacetime U.S. draft, the 1966 Met Opera at Lincoln Center, Ford’s 1974 amnesty proposal, the 1976 Episcopal ordination of women, Maria Callas’s 1977 death, and the 1982 Sabra and Chatila massacre.
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France
Louis XIV
Mexico
Oklahoma
Franklin Roosevelt
U.S
Metropolitan Opera
New York
Lincoln Center For the Performing Arts
Ford
Episcopal Church
Minneapolis
Maria Callas
Paris
West Beirut
Sabra
Chatilla
Vermont Senator Jeffords Postpones Book Release
James Jeffords of Vermont delays the release of My Declaration of Independence to November citing national unity after massive terrorist attacks. He explains the book will discuss why he felt his party shifted away from center and his beliefs. Anne Rice cancels her Blood tour.
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James Jeffords
Vermont
Republican Party
Jeffords
Simon & Schuster
Anne Rice
Edwards Wins Lasker Award for IVF Pioneer
Edwards emeritus professor of human reproduction at Cambridge University receives the $50,000 Lasker medical award in New York for developing the basic fertilization technique behind in vitro fertilization. Three other researchers are honored for creating mouse models of human diseases. The Lasker Foundation notes nearly a million IVF babies have been born using the Edwards Steptoe method.
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Obert Edwards
Lasker Medical
Edwards
Cambridge University
New York
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
Patrick Steptoe
Bleeth jailed after Michigan car crash probe
Yasmine Bleeth spent a night in jail after patrol officers found what they suspect was cocaine in her purse during their investigation of a one vehicle crash on Interstate 94 in Romulus Michigan. No charges had been filed and no one was injured. Cmdr. David Early of the Romulus Police said Bleeth and a male passenger drove off the median strip. She could face misdemeanor operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs or a felony possession of a narcotic charge with possible prison time.
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Yasmine Bleeth
Michigan
Cmdr
David Early
Romulus
Bleeth
Los Angeles
Baywatch
Nash Bridges
Interstate 94
Memorial concert for World Trade Center and Pentagon victims
The New York Philharmonic plans a memorial concert at Avery Fisher Hall Lincoln Center featuring Heidi Grant Murphy Thomas Hampson and conducted by Kurt Masur. The program includes Brahms German Requiem with New York Choral Artists and The American Boychoir. Proceeds go to disaster relief.
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Oprano
Heidi Grant Murphy
Thomas Hampson
New York Philharmonic
World Trade Center
Pentagon
Philharmonic
New York
Kurt Masur
Brahm’s
Lincoln Center
Avery Fisher Hall
Backstreet Boys Perform in Toronto After Tribute to WTC Victims
The Backstreet Boys opened their Toronto show with a moment of silence for World Trade Center victims, including Danny Lee, a World Trade Center victim and set carpenter on the Black & Blue tour. The group announced a donations plan giving $1 from each ticket to a relief fund.
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World Trade Center
Danny Lee
Lee
North Tower
Los Angeles
Backstreet Boys
Boston
Alan Jackson Induction Delayed by Terror Attacks
Alan Jackson will not be inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame as planned in Macon. The ceremony and performance are postponed due to last week's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, according to spokesman Ivey Lindsey. Jackson is known for hits such as Gone Country and Chattahoochee.
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Alan Jackson
Georgia Music Hall of Fame
New York
Washington
Jackson
Ivey Lindsey
British cannabis activist arrested after opening Dutch style case
Colin Davies, founder of the Medical Marijuana Cooperative, was arrested in a Manchester suburb after opening Britain's first Dutch style case openly selling cannabis. Police said he possessed with intent to supply. Several others were later detained in the drugs sweep.
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Britain
Colin Davies
Manchester
London
Greater Manchester
Davies
Medical Marijuana Cooperative
Elizabeth II
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