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| | FEATURED BIOGRAPHY
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2015: Australian politician
Malcolm Fraser, who served as the country's prime minister from 1975 to 1983, died at age 84. [ Test your knowledge of Australia's government and political system .]
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1999: As they floated past longitude 9°27′ W above Mauretania, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first aviators to circumnavigate the globe nonstop by
balloon; they landed the following day in Egypt. [ Test your knowledge of aviation in our quiz .]
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1969: John Lennon, a leader of the seminal British rock group the Beatles, married Japanese artist and musician Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about the Beatles .]
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1957: American filmmaker Spike Lee, who was known for his uncompromising and provocative approach to controversial subject matter, was born. [ Take our film buff quiz .]
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1948: Canadian American
ice hockey player Bobby Orr—who, as a member of the Boston Bruins, became one of the game's best defensemen—was born in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada. [ Find out if Bobby Orr made our list of the 10 best hockey players of all time .]
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1727: Sir Isaac Newton, whose Principia (1687) was one of the most important single works in the history of modern
science and who was the culminating figure of the scientific revolution of the 17th century, died in London.
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