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... nemzetközi gőg és butaságé is!
Vivien Leigh
*Vivian Mary Hartley was born on November 5, 1913, in Darjeeling, India, a strange place for one of the world's most celebrated actresses to be born. She was to live in this beautiful country for the next six years. Her parents wanted to go home to England but because of World War I they opted to stay in India. ... |
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... the friars stopped the killings. This incident provided Chaucer with the idea for his Prioress Tale and the hero of the popular ballad, "Little Sir Hugh". His birthday (August 27) was celebrated until the Reformation.
1897 August 29, FIRST ZIONIST CONGRESS (Basel, Switzerland)
Was convened by Theodor... |
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... Jews had lived there since their expulsion from France by Philip Augustus in 1182.
1598 August, AMSTERDAM (Holland)
The first Jewish (Marrano) wedding in Amsterdam was celebrated. Both the groom, Duarte Saravina, and the bride, Maria Nunez, were recent refugees. There is a legend which relates that Maria was originally captured by an English ship but freed on the... |
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... 1945
1945: The first Bastille Day for five years is celebrated enthusiastically by the French.
1945: The U.S. Third Fleet shells Kamaishi, 275 miles north of Tokyo.
Donna Reed... |
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... (Italy)
Less then two months after the French, under Napoleon, captured the city, the ghetto gates were torn down. A tree of liberty was erected while the local populace danced and celebrated. Then, with the active participation of the newly formed civic guard and some of the local priests, the gates were chopped up and burned. The ghetto was in existence for 281 years and 3... |
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Július 3.
1187 July 3, GUY DE LUSIGNAN (King of Jerusalem) (Eretz Israel)
Against the advice of Raymond III of Tripoli and others, he force-marched his troops through the dry, hot Galilee. He was defeated by the Moslems near the Sea of Galilee (the Kinneret) at a site known as the Horns of Hittim.
1475 July 3, MESHULLAM CUSI (Italy)
Established t... |
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... rioting was during the years 1734, 1750 and 1768. It is estimated that during these years 20,000 Jews were killed. The Haidamaks became part of the Ukrainian national movement and are celebrated in folklore and literature.
1812 June 18, WAR OF 1812
Was declared by Congress. During the war, John Ordroneaux, a naval commander, sank five British ships in one battle ... |
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... coast.
1942: The British Army, in retreat from Burma, reach India.
1943: The U.S. 8th Air Force attacks Kiel with 125 aircraft, destroying 3 U-boats.
1943: SS day is celebrated in Oslo.
TideWater Associated Ad - May 1944
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... Alton — who had also discovered Gene Kelly — and soon she joined the Freed Unit at MGM, where she became the resident MGM ballet dancer.
Charisse was principally celebrated for her on-screen pairings with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. She first appeared with Astaire in a brief routine in "Ziegfeld Follies" (produced in 1944 and released in 1946). Her next ap... |
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... that de Havilland went on to win two Academy Awards of her own, they remained permanently estranged.
In a rare act of reconciliation, Olivia and her sister Joan Fontaine celebrated Christmas 1962 together along with their then-husbands and children.
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