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King of Great Britain and Ireland (1660)
An American composer violinist and orchestral director.
A French socialist statesman and with the German statesman Gustav Stresemann, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in 1926.
A British film actor and writer who started in films such as Joseph Losey's The Servant and The Damned.
He served in the Maine House of Representatives (1946-1951) and as Democratic Party national committee member (1952-1953)
The first U.S. patent for a washing machine is granted to Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire.
The ancient Turkish city of Constantinople changes its name to Istanbul.
British writer Virginia Woolf commits suicide by drowning.
In London, Ringo Starr announces that there will be no more public appearances by the Beatles.
A nuclear disaster at the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pa., increases public concerns about the safety of nuclear power.
The administration of President George W. Bush withdraws support for the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.
An American political leader, who was born in Rumford, Maine, and educated at Bates College and Cornell University Law School. He served in the Maine House of Representatives (1946-1951) and as Democratic Party national committee member (1952-1953). After two terms as governor of Maine (1955-1959), Muskie became a United States senator in 1959, the first Democratic senator from Maine. In 1968 Muskie was the Democratic candidate for the vice presidency on a ticket headed by Hubert H. Humphrey. Humphrey and Muskie lost the election to the Republican candidates, Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew, by a narrow margin of the popular vote. Muskie was an unsuccessful contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and remained influential in his party in subsequent years. He resigned his Senate seat in 1980 to become secretary of state in the cabinet of President Jimmy Carter, a position he held until 1981. He then practiced law in Washington, D.C.
He died on March 26, 1996, Washington, D.C., United States.
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