09-13-2007, 05:05 AM
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Location: Maryland
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September 13th
1321 ~ Death of Dante Alighieri, writer (The Divine Comedy)
1819 ~ Birthday of Clara Schumann, Pianist, Composer.
1857 ~ Birthday of Milton S. Hershey, chocolate entrepreneur and founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company.
1874 ~ Birthday of Arnold Schoenberg, Composer.
1948 ~ Margaret Chase Smith was elected senator, and became the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
1971 ~ Frank Robinson became the 11th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland.
1977 ~ Death of Leopold Stokowski, Conductor.
1993 ~ Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands on a peace deal.
1999 ~ A bomb exploded in Moscow, killing some 119 people.
2006 ~ Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others at Dawson College in Montreal.
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