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On This Day: February 5, 2012
Birthdays: | 1788 | Sir Robert Peel, Founder of the Metropolitan Police | | 1840 | John Dunlop, Scottish inventor of pneumatic bicycle tyre | | 1906 | John Carradine, Character actor in American films | | 1942 | Susan Hill, Playwright and novelist | | 1944 | Al Cooper, Of the group 'Blood Sweat and Tears' | | 1946 | Charlotte Rampling, Leading British film actress | | 1952 | Russell Grant, Television astrologer | | 1969 | Bobby Brown, Pop star, and husband of Whitney Houston |
Events:| 1922 | The very first 'Readers Digest' appeared on the shelves | | 1936 | The film 'Modern Times', by Charlie Chaplin, had its American premiere | | 1961 | The Sunday Telegraph was first published | | 1971 | The US Apollo 14 (Shepard & Mitchell onboard) landed on the Moon | | 1988 | Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize | | 1989 | Sky satellite television was launched | | 1992 | Kevin Keegan was appointed manager of Newcastle Football Club | | 1994 | A US paragliding citizen landed on the roof of Buckingham Palace |
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Registry and Resource for Wisconsin Adoptees & Birth Family Members
