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2011: American
Democratic politician Geraldine Ferraro, who was the first woman to be nominated (1984) for vice president by a major political party in the United States, died at age 75. [ Take our quiz about women in U.S. politics .]
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2005: Sixteen years after being cancelled, the
BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who returned to television with a new episode, with Christopher Eccleston appearing in the title role.
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2000: Russian intelligence officer and politician Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia.
[ Test what you know about hockey player Alex Ovechkin and politician Vladimir Putin .]
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1997: Police discovered the bodies of 39 members of Heaven's Gate, an American religious group that believed in unidentified flying objects; they had committed suicide in the belief that a spaceship was arriving to take them to a better place.
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1944: American pop singer and actress
Diana Ross—who achieved international stardom, first as leader of the vocal group the Supremes and later as a solo artist—was born. [ Get your groove on in this eclectic study of music .]
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1941: British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who maintained that genes are the driving force of evolution and advocated
atheism, was born in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Larry Page
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