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| | FEATURED BIOGRAPHY
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| | FEATURED EVENT
| | 1965
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2018: American evangelist
Billy Graham—whose large-scale preaching missions, known as crusades, and friendship with numerous U.S. presidents brought him to international prominence—died at age 99. [ Take our Christianity quiz .]
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1995: American businessman and adventurer Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon
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1936: American lawyer and politician Barbara C. Jordan, the first African American congresswoman to come from the Deep South, was born in Houston, Texas. [ Read about seven female firsts in U.S. politics .]
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1916: The
Battle of Verdun, one of the most-devastating engagements of World War I, began. [ Sort fact from fiction in our World War I quiz .]
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1907: W.H. Auden, one of the foremost English-language poets of his era, was born. [ Test your knowledge of the opening lines of famous poems .]
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1903: Author Anaïs Nin, whose literary reputation rests on the eight published volumes of her personal diaries, was born in France. [ Discover how well you know famous authors .]
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