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2014: French film director Alain Resnais—who was a leader of the
New Wave of unorthodox influential movie directors in France in the late 1950s—died at age 91. [ Test your knowledge of films .]
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2005: In a major capital punishment case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to execute convicts who were under age 18 at the time of their crimes. [ Read about cruel and unusual punishments .]
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1994: Justin Bieber, a Canadian singer noted for his fresh-faced good looks and appealing pop songs, was born in Stratford, Ontario. [ Take our quiz about pop music .]
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1954: American filmmaker Ron Howard, who first achieved fame as a child actor and later became an Academy Award
-winning director, was born.
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1922: Israeli statesman and soldier Yitzhak Rabin—who, as prime minister of Israel, engaged in peace negotiations with the Palestinians, for which he won a share of the 1994 Nobel Prize
for Peace—was born.
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