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| | FEATURED BIOGRAPHY
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| | Kofi Annan
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2013: British politician Margaret Thatcher, who was the United Kingdom
's (and Europe's) first woman prime minister (1979–90) and the only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms, died in London.
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2003: It was reported that springtails (Collembola), long thought to be among the oldest ancestors of insects, did not evolve as insects but rather evolved from a separate group that was formed even before crustaceans
and insects diverged.
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1990: Ryan White, who became a national symbol in the United States after he contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion given to treat his hemophilia, died.
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1974: American baseball
player Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run—breaking Babe Ruth's record, which had stood since 1935—and in 1976 completed his career with 755 home runs.
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1912: Sonja Henie, a Norwegian American figure skater who won the world amateur championship for women in 10 consecutive years (1927–36) and three gold medals in the Winter Olympic Games
(1928, 1932, and 1936), was born.
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| ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY
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Kofi Annan
Ghanaian statesman and secretary-general of the United Nations
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