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Your support makes all the difference.Births: Edward Cave, printer and publisher of the Gentleman's Magazine, 1691; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet, 1807; Dame Ellen Alicia Terry, actress, 1847; Henry Edwards Huntington, railway promoter, 1850; Rudolf Steiner, social philosopher, 1861; Enrico Caruso, operatic tenor, 1873; Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, mathematician, 1881; Charles Herbert Best, co-discoverer of insulin as a diabetes treatment, 1899; Marino Marini, sculptor, 1901; John Ernst Steinbeck, author, 1902; James Thomas Farrell, novelist, 1904.
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On this day: the British Labour Party was founded, 1900; the Reichstag in Berlin burned following what was called a ``Communist plot'' by Hitler, 1933; General Franco's government in Spain was recognised by Britain and France, 1939; Borley Rectory, England's most haunted house, burned down, 1939; the Gulf War ended after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait was liberated, 1991.
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