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Anniversaries and Birthdays Highlight Historic Figures
Know America Today lists anniversaries of scholars, soldiers, and leaders from Hartford’s writers to Supreme Court jurists, with birthplaces from Naugatuck to Philadelphia, and notes on their deaths, careers, and ages. It also notes Today in History events from 1782 to 1956 and lists current birthdays including Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, Murray Snyder, and James L. Hollway Jr.
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Corm
Elkton
David J. Brewer
Kansas
U.S. Supreme Court
Smyrna
Alexander Winton
Cleveland
Scotland
Continental Congress
The
Congress
Samuel F. B. Morse
West Virginia
Wilson
Philippine Sea
U.S
Okinawa
Truman
Une
U.S. House
Cornelius P. Rhoads
Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research
New York
Springfield
Mass
Murray Snyder
Ft. Smith
Ark
James A. Linen
Time Magazine
Waverly Pa
Lilian Hellman