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| | FEATURED BIOGRAPHY
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| | FEATURED EVENT
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2004: English filmmaker, writer, and humanitarian Sir Peter Ustinov—whose versatile career spanned more than 60 years, during which he excelled in numerous areas of the arts while gaining renown, especially by means of lectures and one-man shows, as a witty raconteur—died at age 82. [ Take our actors and acting quiz .]
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1985: Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer Marc Chagall, whose works were among the first expressions of psychic reality in modern art, died in France. [ Test your knowledge of art history .]
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1936: Peruvian author
Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novels of revolution and struggle, was born in Arequipa, Peru. [ Take our Nobel laureates in literature quiz .]
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1890: American bandleader Paul Whiteman, called the “King of Jazz” for popularizing a musical style that helped to introduce jazz
to mainstream audiences during the 1920s and '30s, was born.
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1472: Painter Fra Bartolommeo, a prominent exponent of the High Renaissance style in early 16th-century Florence whose works included God the Father with SS. Catherine of Siena and Mary Magdalene (1509), was born. [ Test your knowledge of Italian Renaissance art .]
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1979: At 4:00 an automatic valve mistakenly closed at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, culminating in radioactive leakage. [ Read about 10 of the world's worst industrial disasters .]
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