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1680s

• 1686: FICTIONAL ROBINSON CRUSOE LEFT ISLAND AFTER 28 YEARS. DANIEL DEFOE’S STORY IS BASED ON AN ACTUAL PERSON, ALEXANDER SELKIRK, A SCOTTISH SAILOR, WHO WAS FOUND ON AN ISLAND WHERE HE HAD BEEN STRANDED FOR 52 MONTHS. (HE WAS RESCUED ON FEB. 1, 1709)

1840s

• DIED 1848: EMILY BRONTË (WRITER)

1870s

• 1871: MARK TWAIN RECEIVED A PATENT FOR SUSPENDERS

1880s

• BORN 1885: JOE “KING” OLIVER (JAZZ MUSICIAN)
• BORN 1888: FRITZ REINER (CONDUCTOR)

1910s

• 1917: THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE BEGAN ITS FIRST PROFESSIONAL SEASON WITH FOUR TEAMS
• 1918: ROBERT RIPLEY’S COLUMN, “BELIEVE IT OR NOT!,” FIRST APPEARED IN THE NEW YORK GLOBE

1930s

• BORN 1933: CICELY TYSON (ACTRESS)

1940s

• BORN 1944: TIM REID (ACTOR)

1950s

• 1958: THE FIRST KNOWN RADIO BROADCAST FROM OUTER SPACE WAS TRANSMITTED WHEN PRESIDENT EISENHOWER’S RECORDED VOICE ISSUED A HOLIDAY GREETING FOR THE WHOLE WORLD FROM THE ATLAS SATELLITE WHICH WAS LAUNCHED THE PREVIOUS DAY
• DIED 1959: WALTER WILLIAMS (AGE 117: LAST KNOWN CIVIL WAR VET)

1960s

• 1961: NEW TRANSATLANTIC SUBMARINE CABLE, CANTAT-1, BETWEEN BRITAIN AND CANADA (FIRST LINK IN A PROPOSED AROUND-THE-WORLD COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM) IS INAUGURATED BY A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION BETWEEN QUEEN ELIZABETH II AND PRIME MINISTER DIEFENBAKER OF CANADA
• BORN 1963: JENNIFER BEALS (ACTRESS)
• BORN 1967: CRISS ANGEL (ILLUSIONIST)
• 1968: INTELSAT III F-2 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE LAUNCHED

1970s

• BORN 1972: ALYSSA MILANO (ACTRESS)

1980s

• BORN 1980: JAKE GYLLENHAAL (ACTOR)
• BORN 1980: MARLA SOKOLOFF (ACTRESS)

2000s

• DIED 2003: HOPE LANGE (ACTRESS)

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