May 31, 2007
Pamela Anderson: actor,model,activist (more …)
AKA: Pamela Anderson Lee,Pam Anderson
Real Name: Pamela Denise Anderson
Morgan Freeman, whose emotional depth and versatility made him one of the most respected performers of his generation and the winner of an Academy Award for his role in Million Dollar Baby (2004), was born this day in 1937.
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Ted Turner's Cable News Network, headquartered in Atlanta, began 24-hour live news broadcasts this day in 1980 and gained worldwide attention in 1991 for its around-the-clock coverage of the Persian Gulf War.
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1968: Blind and deaf American author Helen Keller died in Westport, Connecticut.
1945: In a speech, Indonesian nationalist leader Sukarno articulated the Pancasilathe Five Principlesthat became the founding philosophy of the independent Indonesian state.
1926: American motion-picture star Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles.
1794: The first great naval engagement of the French revolutionary wars, the Battle of the First of June, was fought between England and France in the Atlantic Ocean.
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