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A Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet.
An Austrian classical pianist, who also composed and taught.
A Russian politician, Prime minister of the USSR.
A Sri Lankan political leader, becoming the world's first woman prime minister in 1960.
While teaching, he achieved success as both a novelist and a playwright. He won Pulitzer Prize in 1928.
Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain, giving him a commission to seek a westward passage to Asia.
The Virginia convention votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.
U.S.-backed Cuban exiles land at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba to overthrow Premier Fidel Castro's government; the mission is thwarted and the invaders killed or captured.
The Ford Motor Company unveils its new car, the Mustang.
Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968.
One of the richest men in the world, John Paul Getty, dies at the age of 84, America oil magnate who founded the J. Paul Getty Museum in California.
An American novelist, was born on April 17, 1897, Madison, Wisconsin, United States and educated at Oberlin College and Yale University. While teaching, he achieved success as both a novelist and a playwright. He won Pulitzer Prize in 1928. His other works include The Eighth Day and The Ides of March. In 1968, Wilder was awarded the National Book Award. His first full-length play, the allegorical The Trumpet Shall Sound (1926), preceded a long list of popular one-act plays and translations. The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), a comic view of human life through the ages, won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize in drama. One of Wilder's most successful works, The Matchmaker (1954), derived ultimately from a 19th-century Austrian comedy, was made into a motion picture in 1958 and adapted in 1964 as the musical comedy Hello, Dolly!, which was filmed in turn in 1969.
He died on December 7, 1975, Hamden, Connecticut, United States.
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