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Asylum


2009 An Australian navy ship intercepts a boat carrying 60 suspected asylum seekers

1992 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum

1989 Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at Vatican embassy

1979 Russian ice skaters Protopopov and Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland

1975 Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests U.S. political asylum

1975 Czechoslovakian tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in New York City

1970 Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum

1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum

1967 Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US

1964 Dave Pirner, rocker, Soul Asylum

1960 Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300

1959 Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India

1954 Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra

1943 David Geffin, born in Brooklyn, New York, record producer, Geffin, Asylum

1942 Britt Ekland, Stockholm Sweden, actress, Wicker Man, Asylum

1942 Barbara Parkins, Vancouver BC, actress, Betty-Peyton Place, Asylum

1934 Sylvia Syms, London, actress, Asylum, Moonraker, Shirley Valentine

1931 Alex Cord, New York City, actor, Brotherhood, Fire, Street Asylum

1851 SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded

1829 New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in U.S., incorporated, Boston


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