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2012 Event - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells his cabinet that Israel's identity is threatened by hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa

2011 Event - In a meeting with President Barack Obama, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not fully withdraw to the pre-1967 borders as Obama requested

2010 Event - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel states he will not apologize to Turkey for the Gaza flotilla clash, and that the injured will not receive any compensation

2002 Death - "General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr", Air Force General, first black general in the Air Force, dies at 89

2000 Death - Benjamin Orr, singer/guitarist, Drive, dies at 53

1998 Death - Dr. Benjamin Spock, pediatrician/writer, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, dies at 94

1998 Death - Benjamin Spock, American Scientist

1996 Death - Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe Nnamdi, politician, dies at 91

1995 Event - Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win

1995 Death - Bernard Benjamin Gillis, judge, dies at 89

1994 Death - Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71

1994 Death - Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist, dies at 92

1993 Death - Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies from cancer at 74

1993 Death - Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies of prostate cancer at 74

1987 Event - Benjamin and Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital

1985 Death - Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30

1983 Death - Benjamin V Cohen, U.S. author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88

1981 Birthday - Naomi Grabow, born in lake Arrowhead, California, pairs skater, & Benjamin Oberman

1981 Death - Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore, dies

1980 Birthday - Benjamin Salisbury, Minneapolis, actor, Brighton Sheffield-Nanny

1978 Birthday - Benjamin McKenzie, American Actor

1977 Event - Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks

1976 Death - Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63

1976 Event - Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP

1976 Death - Edward Benjamin Britten, composer, dies at 62

1975 Death - James [Benjamin] Blish, sci-fi author (Star Trek Reader), dies at 54

1975 Birthday - Andre Benjamin, American Musician

1974 Birthday - Benjamin Oberman, born in Denver, Colorado, pairs skater, & Naomi Grabow

1973 Birthday - Benjamin Fairbrother, CFL offensive tackle for the Saskatchewan Roughriders

1973 Death - Benjamin Frankel, composer, dies at 67

1972 Birthday - Benjamin Dodwell, Australian rower 1996 Olympics

1972 Event - Benjamin L Hooks, named to FCC

1971 Event - Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave," premieres in Aldwych

1969 Birthday - Arthur Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh, son of Arthur Benjamin Guinness, member of the Guinness family, founders of the Guinness brewery

1969 Death - Benjamin Shahn, Lithuanian Artist

1968 Event - Dr. Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law

1967 Event - Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war

1967 Birthday - Kenneth Charlie Griffith Benjamin, cricketer, WI like his namesake

1966 Birthday - Camille Benjamin, born in Cleveland, Ohio, tennis star

1965 Birthday - Mike Benjamin, Euclid Ohio, infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies

1965 Event - Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today," premieres

1964 Birthday - Winston Benjamin, cricketer, WI righty quick 1987-95

1964 Birthday - Benoit Benjamin, NBA center for the Milwaukee Bucks

1963 Birthday - Benjamin Bratt, California, actor, Det Reynaldo Curtis-Law and Order

1962 Event - Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres

1961 Death - Benjamin Merkelbach, architect/city builder of Amsterdam, dies at 60

1961 Birthday - Joey Benjamin, cricket pace bowler, in St. Kitts England in 1994

1960 Event - Benjamin Britten's cantate "Carmen Baseliense," premieres in Basel

1960 Death - Arthur Benjamin, Austral composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at 66

1959 Death - Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60

1959 Event - Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis" in D, premieres

1959 Event - Benjamin O Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black General-major in USAF

1959 Death - Benjamin Christensen, Danish actor (Barnet, Mockery), dies at 79

1959 Birthday - Susan Benjamin, actress, Tracy-Accidental Family

1958 Event - Benjamin Britten's "Nocturne," premieres

1957 Event - Benjamin Britten's ballet "Prince and the Pauper," premieres in London

1956 Birthday - Lorna Patterson, Whittier California, actress, Airplane, Pvt Benjamin

1953 Birthday - Benjamin Gene Brown, born in San Francisco, California, 4X400 runner 1976 Olympics gold

1952 Death - Minus van Looi, Benjamin van der Neart, Flemish writer, dies at 60

1951 Event - Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd," premieres in London

1950 Birthday - Benjamin Peterson, U.S., heavyweight boxer, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1949 Birthday - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister

1949 Birthday - Armand Assante, New York City, actor, Private Benjamin, Unfaithfully Yours

1949 Birthday - Ann Ryerson, born in Wisconsin, actress, Pvt Carol Winter-Pvt Benjamin

1949 Event - Benjamin Britten's Jump Symphony, premieres

1948 Event - Benjamin Brittens "Beggar's Opera," premieres in Cambridge

1947 Death - Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal

1945 Event - Benjamin Britten's 2nd String quartet in C, premieres

1945 Birthday - Goldie Hawn, Takoma Park, Maryland, actress, Laugh-in, Private Benjamin

1945 Event - Opera "Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten," premieres in London

1945 Death - Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at 42

1944 Birthday - Sally Kirkland, New York City, actress, Anna, Sting, Pvt Benjamin, Big Bad Mama

1944 Birthday - Bruce Johnston, born in Peoria, Illinois, born Benjamin Baldwin, rocker, musician, singer, record producer, Grammy-Award winning songwriter, member of The Beach Boys, composed I Write The Songs

1944 Death - Benjamin Cremieux, French author (In Buchenwald), dies at 55

1944 Death - Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor, dies at 79

1943 Death - Benjamin James Dale, composer, dies at 58

1943 Birthday - Benjamin W. Jipcho, born in Mount Elgon, Kenya, 3K steeplechase, won Olympic silver in 1972

1941 Death - Benjamin Dwight, U.S. tennis championship umpire, dies

1941 Birthday - Count Desmond, Edward Benjamin, Binghamton, New York, sword swallower

1941 Death - Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies

1941 Event - 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem"

1940 Event - Benjamin O. Davis became 1st Black general in U.S. Army

1940 Event - U.S. Army General Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general

1940 Event - Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army

1940 Death - Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48

1940 Death - Walter Benjamin, writer, dies at 48

1940 Event - Ernest Hemingway and Benjamin Glazer premiere in New York City

1940 Event - Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London

1939 Birthday - [Benjamin] Latimore, U.S. singer, Let's Straighten It Out

1939 Death - Benjamin Tucker, American Activist

1939 Birthday - William Benjamin Lenoir, born in Miami, Florida, astronaut, STS-5

1938 Birthday - Hal Williams, Columbus Ohio, actor, Pvt Benjamin, 227, Sanford and Son

1938 Event - Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin

1938 Birthday - Richard Benjamin, New York City, director/actor, Goodbye Columbus, He and She

1937 Birthday - Benjamin Luxon, born in Redruth, England, baritone, Owen Wingrave

1936 Event - Benjamin E. Mays named president of Morehouse College

1936 Birthday - Benjamin Bathurst, vice chief of British Defense Staff

1935 Birthday - Eileen Brennan, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Laugh-In, Pvt Benjamin

1934 Birthday - Benjamin Boretz, composer

1933 Birthday - David Benjamin Lewin, composer

1932 Birthday - Bronislaw Geremek, born in Warsaw, given name Benjamin Lewertow, social historian, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs

1926 Birthday - Benjamin Burwell Johnson, composer

1925 Birthday - Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader

1924 Birthday - Benjamin Lees, Lysniansky, Harbin Manchuria, composer

1922 Birthday - Benjamin Smit, Curaeaos architect, St. Elizabeth Hospital

1922 Birthday - Louis Benjamin, showman

1921 Birthday - Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert

1921 Birthday - James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author, Hugo, Star Trek Reader

1918 Death - [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press sec, dies at 53

1917 Birthday - Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert

1916 Death - Benjamin Kidel, English sociologist (Social Evolution), dies at 58

1915 Death - Benjamin Lambord, composer, dies at 35

1914 Birthday - Ewan Roberts, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, actress, Pvt Benjamin

1913 Birthday - Benjamin Britten, born in Suffolk, England, opera composer

1913 Birthday - Benjamin Britten, Lowestoft Suffolk England, composer, Beggar's Opera

1910 Birthday - Scatman Crothers, Benjamin, Terre Haute, Indiana, actor, Zapped, Shining

1909 Death - Benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79

1909 Death - Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer, dies at 71

1906 Birthday - Benjamin Frankel, composer

1905 Birthday - Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge

1904 Birthday - Nnamdi Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe, politician

1903 Birthday - Benjamin Spock, CT, pediatrician, Common Sense Book of Baby Care

1903 Birthday - Benjamin M. Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party

1901 Birthday - Benjamin Merkelbach, architect/city builder of Amsterdam

1901 Birthday - Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist

1901 Event - Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday, New York

1901 Death - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67

1901 Death - Benjamin Edward Woolf, composer, dies at 64

1899 Birthday - Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet, La revolution surrealiste

1898 Birthday - Benjamin Shahn, Lithuanian Artist

1897 Birthday - Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist, or 1797

1897 Birthday - Benjamin Whorf, American

1895 Birthday - Benjamin E Mays, South Carolina, black educator, Morehouse, Howard University

1895 Birthday - Benjamin E. Mays, American Educator

1895 Death - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer, dies at 45

1894 Birthday - Jack Benny, Benjamin Kubelski, Waukegan, Illinois, "Oh! Rochester!"

1893 Birthday - Arthur Benjamin, Sydney Australia, composer, Jamaican Rumba

1893 Death - Benjamin F Butler, U.S. gen/president candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74

1892 Birthday - Walter Benjamin, German literature critic/writer

1892 Birthday - Minus van Looi, Benjamin van der Voort, Flemish writer

1891 Event - President Benjamin Harrison visits San Francisco

1889 Event - Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president

1888 Birthday - Benjamin Cremieux, French author, Le premier the la Classe

1888 Event - Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats President Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes

1888 Event - Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison

1885 Birthday - Benjamin James Dale, composer

1884 Death - Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies at 72

1884 Death - Judah Philip Benjamin, American Politician

1881 Death - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies

1880 Death - Benjamin Pierce, U.S. mathematician/astronomer, dies

1879 Birthday - Benjamin Christensen, Viborg Denmark, actor, Barnet, Mockery

1879 Birthday - Benjamin Lambord, composer

1879 Event - Dr. Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education

1878 Death - Benjamin F. Wade, American Politician

1874 Event - Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier

1867 Birthday - Benjamin A. Jesurun, Antillian literary

1867 Death - Benjamin Hanby, composer, dies at 33

1865 Birthday - Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor, Black Haired Whore

1863 Death - Benjamin Hardin Helm, U.S. attorney/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 33

1863 Death - Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30

1862 Event - General Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores

1861 Event - Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"

1858 Birthday - Benjamin Kidel, English Sudan, Control of the Tropics

1854 Birthday - Benjamin Tucker, American Activist

1850 Event - Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus

1849 Birthday - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer

1849 Event - Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon

1846 Event - Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg

1844 Death - Claude Tillier, French journalist and writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies

1837 Birthday - Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer

1836 Birthday - Benjamin Edward Woolf, Dutch composer

1836 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Potts, Major General Union volunteers

1833 Birthday - Benjamin Harrison, born in North Bend, Ohio, R, 23rd President, 1889-1893

1833 Birthday - Benjamin Hanby, composer

1832 Birthday - Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st wife of Benjamin Harrison

1831 Birthday - Benjamin Hardin Helm, Brigadier General, Confederate, Lincoln's brother-in-law

1831 Death - Benjamin Carr, composer, dies at 62

1830 Death - H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63

1829 Birthday - Benjamin Ipavec, composer

1826 Birthday - John Benjamin Sanborn, Major General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1825 Birthday - Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1820 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General Confederate Army

1820 Death - Benjamin Latrobe, British Architect

1820 Death - Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81

1819 Birthday - Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Major General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - Elihu Benjamin Washburne, MC, Union

1816 Death - Benjamin Hawkins, American Diplomat

1813 Birthday - Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1813 Death - Benjamin Rush, physician and abolotionist, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 67

1812 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander Union Navy

1811 Birthday - Judah Philip Benjamin, American Politician

1810 Birthday - Benjamin Stone Roberts, Major General Union volunteers

1809 Birthday - Benjamin Pierce, U.S. mathematician and astronomer

1808 Birthday - Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1806 Death - Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74

1805 Birthday - Benjamin Hugur, Major General Confederate Army

1804 Birthday - Benjamin Disraeli, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1868, 1874-80

1801 Birthday - Claude Tillier, French journalist and writer, My Uncle Benjamin

1800 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Wade, MC, Union

1800 Birthday - Benjamin F. Wade, American Politician

1800 Event - Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox

1798 Birthday - Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor

1792 Event - Benjamin West (U.S.) becomes president of Royal Academy of London

1791 Event - Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac

1790 Death - Benjamin Franklin, statesman and inventor, dies at 84

1789 Event - Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington D.C.

1789 Birthday - Benjamin Lundy, philanthropist/abolitionist

1786 Birthday - Benjamin Robert Haydon, Plymouth, painter, Waiting for The Times

1785 Event - Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals

1783 Event - Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock

1783 Event - Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes 1st daily newspaper in U.S.

1775 Event - 1st Postmaster General: Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office

1773 Event - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1767 Birthday - H Benjamin Constant, de Rebeque, French politician/writer

1764 Birthday - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect, built Capitol

1764 Birthday - Benjamin Latrobe, British Architect

1754 Birthday - Benjamin Hawkins, American Diplomat

1754 Birthday - Benjamin Waterhouse, physician, smallpox vaccine pioneer

1753 Event - Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny

1753 Birthday - Benjamin Thompson, physicist, Royal Institute of Great Britain

1752 Event - Benjamin Franklins 1st tests the lightning rod

1745 Birthday - Benjamin Rush, Byberry, Pennsylvania, physician, general and signer, Declaration of Independence

1742 Event - Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove

1741 Event - Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, 2nd U.S. magazine begins publishing

1738 Birthday - Benjamin West, painter, Death of General Wolfe

1732 Event - Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"

1731 Birthday - Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott, Maryland, black mathematician/surveyor, Washington D.C.

1731 Event - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st U.S. library

1730 Event - Benjamin Franklin marries Miss Read

1729 Death - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64

1726 Event - Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England

1726 Event - Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia

1725 Event - Benjamin Franklin arrives in London

1724 Event - Benjamin Franklin arrives in London

1706 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin, Boston, kite flyer, statesman, and inventor

1665 Birthday - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet, Herrn von Hofmannswaldau

1652 Death - Benjamin G Cuyp, historical painter, dies at about 40

1614 Birthday - Benjamin Rogers, composer













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