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1997 J. Anthony Lukas, writer, Pulitizer, Common Ground, suicide at 64

1993 Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (Rise of Common Player), dies at 84

1990 Aaron Copeland, composer (Fanfare for Common Man), dies at 90

1989 Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya form common market

1989 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and North Yemen form common market

1983 1st cruise missile placed, Greenham Common, England

1975 British voters decide to remain in Common Market

1975 British population agrees to European Common Market membership

1975 Dagmar Godowsky, actress (Common Law, Red Lights), dies at 78

1973 CARICOM - Caribbean Community and Common Market, forms

1973 Britain, Ireland and Denmark become 7th - 9th members of Common Market

1972 Danish population votes for European Common Market membership

1972 Norway rejects membership in European Common Market

1972 Norway votes to join common market

1972 British Parliament votes to join European Common Market

1968 France refuses U.K. entry into common market

1967 Norway requests European Common Market membership

1967 Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark apply for Common Market membership

1967 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Baltimore Colts pick Bubba Smith

1966 Traylor Howard, born in Orlando, Florida, actress, Joy Byrnes-Boston Common

1966 OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms

1964 Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market

1963 Anthony Clark, comedian, Boyd Pritchett-Boston Common

1962 Greece enters European Common Market

1961 England applies for membership in European Common Market

1958 European Economic Community, known as the Common Market, starts operation

1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community, known as the Common Market

1952 John Dewey, U.S. philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92

1946 John Conlee, Versailles, Kentucky, country singer, Common Man

1946 Dr. Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published

1943 Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec

1936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa

1935 Alan Gray, composer, organist, known for descants, hymn tunes, works include, 'Common Praise', dies at 79

1933 Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, dies

1930 Ugo Gregoretti, Rome, Italy, actor, Rogopag, Common Sense of Modesty

1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)

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

1868 Robert Herrick, U.S. writer, Common lot

1862 Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis

1855 Alan Gray, born in York, England, composer, organist, known for descants, hymn tunes, works include, 'Common Praise'

1852 Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg

1828 Dugald Stewart, Scottish philosopher (Scottish common sense), dies at 74

1809 Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72

1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published

1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"

1753 Dugald Stewart, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, Scottish common sense

1737 Thomas Paine, political essayist, Common Sense, Age of Reason

1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer

1552 Edward Coke, Mileham Norfolk, jurist/politician, defended common law

1552 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes manditory in England

1549 Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England


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