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2013 Event - The European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, reveals that the EU is planning regulatory action to facilitate consolidation of the telecommunications market across national borders

2012 Event - A law banning Americans from adopting Russian children is approved by Russia's parliament; the action is a respons to the U.S. Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act

2012 Event - The film 'Chinese Zodiac' featuring martial arts star Jackie Chan, will be the last film made by the action star

2011 Event - The English town Wooten Bassett is re-named with the prefix 'Royal', honoring its role in repatriating British military personnel killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan

2011 Event - In London, England, international leaders take part in a conference focused on military action and the future of Libya

2010 Event - Economic losses mount and class action lawsuits are filed as the U.S. Coast Guard plans a controlled burn to remove spilled oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster

1996 Event - Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900

1994 Event - Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters

1992 Death - Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies

1990 Event - U.N. security council authorizes military action against Iraq

1988 Event - 1st documented combat action by U.S. military advisors in El Salvador

1987 Event - U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action, 5-4

1986 Event - Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings

1984 Death - Walter Woolf King, actor/TV host (Lights Cameras Action), dies at 85

1984 Death - John Facenda, sportscaster (NFL Action), dies at 72

1978 Event - Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)

1973 Event - President Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam

1969 Birthday - Angie Everhart, born in Akron, Ohio, model/actress, Jade, Last Action Hero

1962 Birthday - Michelle Yeoh, born in Ipoh, Malaysia, actress, films include, 'Tomorrow Never Dies', 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon', considered greatest action heroine ever

1961 Birthday - Sunny Deol, born in New Delhi, India, actor, action movie star, director, producer, winner, two National Film Awards, hit film 'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha'

1955 Event - Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam

1948 Event - Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia

1948 Event - 2nd political action of Java/Sumatra

1947 Event - Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to United Nations pressure

1947 Event - 1st political action of Netherlands Army on Java and Sumatra

1945 Death - Simon B Buckner, U.S. Lieutenant-General/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action

1945 Death - Maurice Rose, 1st U.S. general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45

1944 Event - Baseball meets in New York City to discuss postwar action

1943 Event - 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down

1942 Event - Clinton Pierce becomes 1st U.S. general wounded in action in WW II

1941 Birthday - Jeremy Clyde, born in Dorney, England, musician, television actor, appearing in action series, Crossbow, drama series, The Alan Clark Diaries

1940 Birthday - Chuck Norris, Carlos Ray, born in Oklahoma, martial arts actor, Missing in Action

1938 Event - Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1

1933 Event - House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition

1929 Birthday - Allard Lowenstein, radical, Students for Democratic Action

1926 Birthday - Libera Carlier, Flemish author, Action Station Go!

1917 Event - General Pershing and U.S. troops see action on Western Front for 1st time

1917 Event - 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I

1914 Death - Alberic Magnard, French composer, killed in action at 49

1910 Birthday - Virginia Bruce, actress, Action in Arabia

1898 Event - 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship

1890 Birthday - Marjorie Main, Tomlinson, Action, Indiana, actress, Another Thin Man

1886 Birthday - Karl Barth, born in Basel, Switzerland, theologian and author, Action in Waiting

1865 Event - Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas

1865 Death - Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39

1864 Event - Land and naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas

1864 Death - Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt

1863 Event - Jo Shelby's cavalry in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas

1863 Event - Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign

1863 Event - Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign

1863 Event - Battle of Chancellorsville - action at Salem Church

1862 Event - Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River

1861 Event - 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor

1810 Death - Jean-Georges Noverre, French choreographer (ballet d'action), dies

1770 Event - Date of action in the opera "Madeleine"

1727 Birthday - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer, ballet d'action

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