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Category |
Date |
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211 |
On July 1, 1867, Sir John A. Macdonald became the first Prime Minister of Canada. |
People > Politicians |
11/15/08 |
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212 |
The fourth actor to play James Bond in film, from 1987 to 1989, was Timothy Dalton. |
People > Movie Stars |
11/16/08 |
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213 |
The second actor to play James Bond in film was George Lazenby. |
People > Movie Stars |
11/16/08 |
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214 |
The first actor to play James Bond in film was Sean Connery. |
People > Movie Stars |
11/17/08 |
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215 |
The third actor to play James Bond in film, from 1973 to 1985, was Roger Moore. |
People > Movie Stars |
11/17/08 |
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216 |
The fifth actor to play James Bond in film, from 1995 to 2002, was Pierce Brosnan. |
People > Movie Stars |
11/19/08 |
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217 |
Buzz Aldrin was the second person to walk on the moon. |
People |
01/14/09 |
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218 |
Actress Jenna Fischer was born Regina Marie Fischer on March 7, 1974. |
People > TV Stars |
01/29/09 |
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219 |
Jack Black was born on August 28, 1969. |
People > Movie Stars |
02/02/09 |
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220 |
Kevin Bacon was born on July 8, 1958. |
People > Movie Stars |
02/14/09 |
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221 |
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, had a deaf wife and mother. |
People > Scientists |
03/13/09 |
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222 |
Dave Devall, who retired April 3, 2009, set a Guinness World Record for the "longest career as a weather forecaster". |
People |
04/04/09 |
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223 |
Dave Devall was a weather forecaster with CTV Toronto for a record 48 years, 2 months, and 27 days. |
People |
04/05/09 |
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224 |
Richard Feynman, famous for his work on the Manhattan Project (in which the first atomic bomb was developed), was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. |
People > Scientists |
04/10/09 |
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225 |
Stephen Hawking, famous for his work in theoretical physics in spite of a severe handicap which confines him to a wheelchair, has appeared on the television show "Star Trek: The Next Generation", playing a hologram of himself. |
People > Scientists |
04/11/09 |
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