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2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candiate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's reaction to the attacks on U.S. missions in Benghazi, Cairo and other U.S. embassy's was to 'sympathize' with the assailants; the President claimed the attacks were the result of protests to a movie released on YouTube months before that mocked Mohammed

2012 Event - Tornadoes that struck the midwestern and southern United States claimed 39 lives

1994 Event - Susan Smith who claimed her 2 kids were carjacked arrested for murder

1994 Death - Roland Ratzenberger, race car driver, claimed 1962 as birth year to appear younger and extend racing career, won 1986 Brands Hatch Formula Ford Festival, dies while qualifying for San Marino Prix, in 1994

1969 Death - Harry Emerson Fosdick, Baptist clergyman, studied at Colgate University, opposed racism, injustice, supported appeasement of Hitler, claimed democracies caused the rise of fascism, wrote "A Guide to Understanding the Bible', died in Bronxville, New York

1960 Birthday - Roland Ratzenberger, Salzburg, Austria, race car driver, claimed 1962 as birth year to appear younger and extend racing career, won 1986 Brands Hatch Formula Ford Festival

1959 Death - Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117

1948 Event - "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)

1906 Event - 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile

1878 Birthday - Harry Emerson Fosdick, born in Buffalo, New York, Baptist clergyman, studied at Colgate University, opposed racism, injustice, supported appeasement of Hitler, claimed democracies caused the rise of fascism, wrote "A Guide to Understanding the Bible'

1865 Birthday - Frederick A. Cook, U.S., explorer, claimed falsely to be at North Pole

1863 Event - 1st homestead under the Homestead Act claimed, near Beatrice, Nebr

1859 Birthday - Gustave Kahn, France, poet, claimed to have invented vers libre

1842 Birthday - Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, d 1959

1513 Event - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain

1513 Event - Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon

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