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-*[[1964]] - [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] is awarded the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]], but turns down the honour. +*[[1964]] - [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] is awarded the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]], but turns down the honour.
-* 1964 - [[Canada]]: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official [[Flag of Canada]].+
-*[[1965]] - End of the [[Second Kashmir War]] between [[India]] and [[Pakistan]].+
-*[[1966]] - [[The Supremes]] become the first all-female [[music]] group to attain a No. 1 selling [[album]] (''[[Supremes A' Go-Go|The Supremes A' Go-Go]]''). +
-*[[1968]] - [[Apollo program]]: ''[[Apollo 7]]'' safely splashes down in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] after orbiting the [[Earth]] 163 times. +
-*[[1970]] - [[Tunku Abdul Rahman]] resign from Prime Minister of [[Malaysia]].+
-*[[1972]] - [[Vietnam War]]: In [[Saigon]], [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[South Vietnam]]ese President [[Nguyen Van Thieu]] meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between [[United States|American]]s and [[North Vietnam]]ese in [[Paris]]. Thieu rejects the proposal and accused the United States of conspiring to undermine his regime +
-*[[1976]] - [[FD&C Red No. 4|Red Dye No. 4]] is banned by the [[US Food and Drug Administration]] after it is discovered that it causes [[tumor]]s in the bladders of [[dog]]s. The dye is still used in [[Canada]].+
-*[[1981]] - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the [[Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968)|Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization]] for its [[Strike action|strike]] the previous August.+
-* 1981 - The founding congress of the [[Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation (Hareram Sharma)|Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation]] faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.+
-* 1981 - The [[TGV]] railway service [[Paris]]-[[Lyon]] is inaugurated.+
-*[[1983]] - Two [[Prison officer|correctional officers]] are killed by inmates in [[United States Penitentiary, Marion|Marion, Illinois]]. The incident inspired the [[Supermax]] model of prisons.+
-*[[1986]] - U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] signs the [[Tax Reform Act of 1986]] into law.+
-* 1986 - [[WNBC]] traffic reporter [[Jane Dornacker]] is killed when the helicopter she is riding in stalls and crashes into the [[Hudson River]].+
-*[[1987]] - [[John Adams (composer)|John Adams]]'s opera ''[[Nixon in China (opera)|Nixon in China]]'' debuts at the [[Houston Grand Opera]] in [[Houston, Texas]].+
-* 1987 - The pinnacle rock "Gendarme" falls at [[Seneca Rocks]].+
-*[[1991]] - [[Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople|Dimitrios Arhondonis]], metropolitan of [[Chalcedon]] elected 270th Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch as [[Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople|Patriarch Bartholomew I]] of the [[Orthodox church]].+
-*[[1999]] - [[Maurice Papon]], an official in the [[Vichy France]] government during [[World War II]], is jailed for [[crimes against humanity]].+
-*[[2005]] - Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the [[2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season]] the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.+
-* 2005 - Crash of [[Bellview Airlines Flight 210]] in [[Nigeria]] kills all 117 on board.+
-* 2005 - The first phase of [[Transantiago]], the new public transport system of [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago de Chile]] is implemented.+
-*[[2006]] - A [[Panama Canal expansion proposal]] is approved by 77.8% of voters in a [[Panama Canal expansion referendum, 2006|National referendum]] held in [[Panama]].+
-* 2006 - [[Michael Schumacher]] drives his last Formula 1 Race. The very same day the Spaniard [[Fernando Alonso]] wins the 2006 Formula 1 World Championship, becoming the 8th and youngest driver to win it twice in a row to emulate the achievements of [[Mika Häkkinen]], [[Michael Schumacher]] and five other drivers.+
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  1. Louis Althusser
  2. Paul Cézanne
  3. Kingsley Amis
  4. Timothy Leary
  5. Laurie Anderson
  6. The Crimes of Love
  7. Jio Berk
  8. Catherine Deneuve
  9. Alexandre-Louis de Villeterque
  10. Paul Tillich
  11. Spike Jonze
  • Lord Alfred Douglas
  • Nelson Pereira dos Santos



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