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A German poet and literary critic.
An American Pulitzer Prize winning director and producer who was a key member of the Algonquin Round Table.
An American actor, comedian and producer best known for his television series The Dick Van Dyke Show.
A Canadian theatre and television actor whose successful film has spanned over five decades.
An American economist, educator, industrialist, and public official who had a distinguished career in government and in the world of business and won respect for his steady professionalism and his preference for conciliation rather than conflict.
Under the care of Robert Cushman, the first American furs to be exported from the continent leave for England.
Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovers New Zealand.
Dartmouth College is chartered.
Outnumbered Confederate forces defeat Union troops at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.
The first Susan B. Anthony dollar coin is minted.
President George W. Bush announces a U.S. withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which is the first U.S. withdrawal from an arms-control agreement since the development of nuclear weapons.
U.S. troops capture ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, who is found hiding in a small underground chamber dubbed a "spider hole.
An American economist, educator, industrialist, and public official who had a distinguished career in government and in the world of business and won respect for his steady professionalism and his preference for conciliation rather than conflict was born on December 13, 1920 in New York and educated at University of Princeton in 1942 with a B.A. in economics and in 1949 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics. At the University of Chicago (1962-68) he headed the business school. By President Nixon in 1969, he was appointed as secretary of labor and secretary of the treasury. He also served as director of the Office of Management and Budget. He left Washington for Bechtel in 1974. From 1975 until 1982 he held the presidency of Bechtel (a major engineering and construction company). He came back to Washington and appointed as secretary of state. He replaced Alexander M. Haig, Jr. As the Chairman of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981-82) and Secretary of State (1982-89), his contributions are remarkable in the Reagan administration to implement foreign policy that led to the successful conclusion of the cold war.
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