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Famous birthdays for June 14: Gunna, Lang Lang
June 14 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include: -- Writer Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1811 -- Bookseller John Bartlett in 1820 -- Physician Alois Alzheimer in 1864 -- Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White in 1904 -- Actor/musician Burl Ives in 1909 -- Actor Dorothy McGuire in 1916 -- Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara in 1928 -- Actor Marla Gibbs in 1931 (age 94) -- Musician Junior Walker in 1931 -- Musician Rod Argent (Zombies/Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band) in 1945 (age 80) -- President Donald Trump in 1946 (age 79) -- Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in 1950 (age 75) -- Women's Basketball Hall of Fame member Pat Summitt in 1952 -- Actor Will Patton in 1954 (age 71) -- U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame speed skater Eric Heiden in 1958 (age 67) -- Musician Boy George (Culture Club) in 1961 (age 64) -- TV journalist Campbell Brown in 1968 (age 57) -- Actor Regan Burns in 1968 (age 57) -- Actor/comedian Faizon Love in 1968 (age 57) -- Actor Yasmine Bleeth in 1968 (age 57) -- Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh in 1968 (age 57) -- International Tennis Hall of Fame member Steffi Graf in 1969 (age 56) -- Musician Chris Chaney (Jane's Addiction/AC/DC) in 1970 (age 55) -- Comedian/actor Alan Carr in 1976 (age 50) -- Screenwriter Diablo Cody in 1978 (age 47) -- Actor Chauncey Leopardi in 1981 (age 44) -- Musician Lang Lang in 1982 (age 43) -- Actor J.R. Martinez in 1983 (age 42) -- Actor/musician Kevin McHale in 1988 (age 37) -- Actor Lucy Hale in 1989 (age 36) -- Musician Jesy Nelson (Little Mix) in 1991 (age 34) -- Actor Evan Sabara in 1992 (age 33) -- Actor Daryl Sabara in 1992 (age 33) -- Musician Gunna in 1993 (age 32) -- Musician Tzuyu (Twice) in 1999 (age 26)
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On This Day, March 20: Sarin attack on Tokyo subway kills 14
March 20 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was published. In 1854, in what is considered the founding meeting of the Republican Party, former members of the Whig Party met in Ripon, Wis., to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories. In 1963, a volcano on the East Indies island of Bali began erupting. The death toll exceeded 1,500. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the Alabama National Guard to provide security at a planned civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery the next day. Earlier marches turned violent and deadly, but the third march was considered more of a success both in terms of safety and in spreading the message of the right to vote for black Americans. In 1976, San Francisco newspaper heiress and kidnapping victim Patty Hearst was convicted of bank robbery. Hearst served 22 months in prison and eventually was granted a full pardon. In 1987, the U.S. government approved the sale of AZT, a treatment, but not a cure, for AIDS. In 1995, 12 people were killed, and more than 5,000 made ill in a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. A 13th victim died a day later and a 14th in 2008. The perpetrators, members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, were executed in 2018. In 1996, the world learned of "mad cow" disease from a British government report questioning the safety of beef in Britain. In 1997, the Liggett Group, fifth-largest U.S. tobacco company, agreed to admit that smoking was addictive and caused health problems and that the tobacco industry had sought for years to sell its products to children as young as 14. In 2001, five days after explosions destroyed one of its support beams and killed 11 people, the largest oil rig in the world collapsed and sank off the coast of Brazil. In 2003, U.S.-led coalition forces begin military operations in Iraq. The Iraq War officially ended In 2004, after narrowly escaping assassination the day before, Chen Shui-bian was re-elected president of Taiwan with about 50 percent of the vote. In 2007, former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was hanged in Baghdad for his part in the 1982 deaths of 148 Shiites. In 2010, the first eruption of a volcano in southern Iceland since the 1820s forced the evacuation of 450 people, but there were no reports of injuries or major property damage. In 2016, President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba since 1928 after normalizing relations between the two countries. In 2019, the Walt Disney Co. officially completed its $71.3 billion purchase of a large chunk of 21st Century Fox. In 2024, the Biden administration released a finalized new Environmental Protection Agency rule regulating vehicles that leans heavily on significant increase in electric and hybrid vehicles on the market in eight years. Less than a year later, the Trump administration announced a rollback of dozens of EPA regulations, including those seeking to reduce vehicle emissions.
