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Shimla, Oct, 28 Keekli Bureau 2007 Argentine lawyer and politician Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became the first woman elected president of Argentina. 1971 Great Britain launched Prospero, its first Earth satellite. 1967 American actress Julia Roberts, whose...

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Shimla, Oct. 25 2002 Irish actor Richard Harris—who was notable not only for his formidable talent in portraying the intense, volatile, and rebellious hell-raising characters that established his image but also for conducting...

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Shimla, Oct. 24 Keekli Bureau 2003 Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa, who had won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her charity work. 1987 The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted nearly 23 percent,...

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Shimla, Oct. 23 Keekli Bureau 2003 Soong Mei-ling, the second wife of the Nationalist Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek and a powerful political figure in her own right, died at age 106. 2001 Apple introduced the...

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Shimla Oct. 21 Keekli Bureau 2018 American actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who starred in such sitcoms as Seinfeld and Veep, was officially awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the highest...

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Shimla, Oct. 20 Keekli Bureau 2014 Dominican-born American fashion designer Oscar de la Renta—whose work, blending European luxury with American ease, helped define standards of elegant dressing among socialites, U.S. first ladies, and...

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Shimla, Oct 19 Keekli Bureau 2003 Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa, who had won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her charity work. 1987 The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted nearly 23 percent,...

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Shimla, Oct 17, Keekli Bureau 2018 Recreational marijuana became legal in Canada. 2005 The Colbert Report—an ironic send-up of television news programs, hosted by Stephen Colbert—debuted on Comedy Central; it ran until 2014. 1972 American rapper and...

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Shimla, Oct. 16 Keekli Bureau 2003 Hungarian boxer László Papp—who was the first three-time Olympic boxing champion, winning gold medals in 1948, 1952, and 1956—died at age 77. 1968 During the awards ceremony for the...

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Shimla, Oct. 15 Keekli Bureau 2018 American investor and philanthropist Paul Allen, who cofounded Microsoft, died at age 65. 2003 China became the third country to launch a crewed spaceflight; Shenzhou 5, which was piloted...

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Shimla, Oct. 14 Keekli Bureau 2012 Two days after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, the space shuttle Endeavour reached its final destination, the California Space Center; its 12-mile journey through the city...