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| | FEATURED BIOGRAPHY
| | 1932
| | Miriam Makeba
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| | FEATURED EVENT
| | 1933
| | Inauguration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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2009: American playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote—who evoked American life in beautifully observed minimal stories and was perhaps best known for his adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird—died in Connecticut. [ Take our To Kill a Mockingbird quiz .]
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1982: Canadian jurist Bertha Wilson became the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. [ Sort fact from fiction in our Canada quiz .]
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1933: Government official Frances Perkins was sworn in as U.S. secretary of labour in the administration of President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt; she was the first woman appointed to a cabinet post. [ Read about seven female firsts in U.S. politics .]
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1681: William Penn secured from King Charles II of England the colonial province of Pennsylvania in North America, hoping to provide a refuge in the New World for
Quakers
and other persecuted people and to build an ideal Christian commonwealth.
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1678: Italian composer and violinist Antonio Vivaldi, who left a decisive mark on the form of the concerto and the style of late Baroque instrumental music, was born.
[ Test your knowledge of classical composers .]
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