Events |

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  January 10 – First meeting of the United Nations.


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  August 16 - Muslim League began "Direct Action Day" which killed 10,000 people from Kolkata.


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  AIESEC started

Births |

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  January 19 – Dolly Parton, American country singer


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  January 22 – Malcolm McLaren, music manager


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  March 12 – Frank Welker, American actor


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  May 10- Donovan, Scottish musician


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  July 6 – George W. Bush, American politician, 43rd President of the United States
  


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  August 19 – Bill Clinton, American politician 42nd President of the United States


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  September 1 – Barry Gibb, Singer/Songwriter


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  November 4 – Laura Bush, 45th First Lady of the United States
  


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  November 24 - Ted Bundy, English serial killer (d. 1989; executed)


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  December 28 – Edgar Winter, Albino pop musician


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  December 30 – Patti Smith, American singer and poet

Deaths |

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  December 25 – WC Fields
  


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  August 13 – H.G. Wells
  


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New books |

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  All the King's Men – Robert Penn Warren
  


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  Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andric
  


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  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care – Benjamin Spock
  


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  Delta Wedding – Eudora Welty
  


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  I Spit On Your Grave – Boris Vian
  


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  Jule – George Wylie Henderson
  


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  The Littlest Angel – Charles Tazewell
  


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  The Miracle of the Rose – Jean Genet
  


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  Mr. President – Miguel Angel Asturias
  


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  Mister Roberts – Thomas Heggen
  


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  The Story Of Dorothy Stanfield – Oscar Micheaux
  


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  Strawberry Girl – Lois Lenski
  


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  The Street – Ann Lane Petty
  


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  Then and Now – W. Somerset Maugham
  


• The Adventures of Tintin

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