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2013 Event - Google agrees to settle a privacy lawsuit, paying a $7 million fine over its handling of wireless data from early 2008 until the spring of 2010

2012 Event - An early work by noted childhood fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen, titled, 'The Tallow Candle", is found at the bottom of a filing box at the National Archives of Funen

2012 Event - Light from the first stars in the universe is detected by astronomers studying high-energy radiation data; the data suggests these stars existed as early as 500 million years after the 'big bang'

2012 Event - Typhoon Haikui, expected to make landfall in Zhejiang early tonight or early tomorrow, prompts the People's Republic of China to evacuate 200,000 people form Shanghai

2012 Event - Author JK Rowling announces that the Pottermore website, her version of the Harry Potter universe will launch in early April, 2012

2011 Event - Four states and 1.5 million people in the Eastern U.S. still have no power after a 2011 Halloween nor-easter hit the area with unusually early snowfall

2010 Event - Photographic negatives purchased at a garage sale prove to be early works by American photographer Ansel Adams

2004 Death - Jack Paar, TV host, early Tonight Show host, dies at 85

2002 Death - Mildred Wirt Benson, journalist/writer, wrote many early Nancy Drew books, dies at 96

2001 Death - Lance Loud, "actor/early ""reality show"" star", An American Family, dies at 50

2001 Death - William Hewlett, "started an early ""garage"" company", co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, dies at 87

2000 Death - Steve Allen, writer/TV host, early Tonight Show host, dies at 80

1999 Death - Early Wynn, American Athlete

1994 Death - Kay Petre, early racing driver, dies at 91

1985 Event - 1st AIDS theme TV movie - "An Early Frost"

1981 Event - Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader, 1,777

1977 Birthday - Fiona Apple, born in Manhattan, New York, singer, songwriter, alt-rock, pop, early jazz influences, Grammy-Award winning single, 'Criminal'

1975 Event - Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC

1974 Event - Most complete early man skeleton found (Johanson and Gray in Ethiopia)

1972 Event - Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez and Early Wynn

1972 Event - Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, and Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame

1965 Event - 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite

1965 Event - Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service

1965 Birthday - Quinn Early, NFL wide receiver, NO Saints, Buffalo Bills

1965 Event - Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous communication satellite

1963 Event - Early Wynn, wins his 300th and last game at 43

1960 Birthday - Eldine Baptiste, cricketer, WI all-rounder early 80's

1959 Birthday - Paul Di'anno, rocker, Iron Maiden Chingford, London V Early Vocalist

1959 Event - White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own home run

1958 Birthday - Yograj Singh, cricketer, Indian pace bowler early 80's

1957 Birthday - Mari Wilson, born in Neasden, England, singer, influenced by early 1960s pop music songs

1957 Birthday - Graeme Fowler, cricketer, England left-handed opener early 80s

1957 Birthday - Everton Mattis, cricketer, WI batsman early 80's

1956 Birthday - Mansoor Akhtar, cricketer, Pakistani batsman early 80's

1956 Event - Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field

1955 Birthday - Roger Binny, Indian cricket medium-pace all-rounder, early 80's

1955 Birthday - Mohsin Khan, cricketer, Pakistani opening batsman late 70s early 80s

1955 Birthday - Garry Christian, born in Liverpool, England, rocker, musician, singer, played with brother Russell and Roger Christian in sophisti-pop band, The Christians, known for late 1980's, early 1990's chart-topping hits

1954 Birthday - Derick Parry, cricketer, WI off-spinner early 80's

1954 Birthday - Yashpal Sharma, cricketer, Indian right-handed batsman early 80'

1953 Birthday - Peter McEwan, cricketer, New Zealand batsman early 80's

1953 Birthday - Elquemedo Willett, cricketer, WI lefty spinner early 70's

1951 Birthday - Geoff Howarth, cricketer, New Zealand captain early 80's

1951 Birthday - Karsan Ghavri, cricketer, Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s

1951 Event - German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison

1949 Birthday - Peter Willey, cricketer, England batsman late 70's early 80's

1945 Birthday - Steven Camacho, cricketer, WI batsman early seventies

1945 Birthday - Robin Jackman, cricketer, England medium-pacer early eighties

1944 Death - Roy Agnew, born in Sydney, Australia, composer, pianist, considered best composer of early 20th century Australia, dies at 51

1943 Birthday - Michael Findlay, cricket wicket-keeper, WI early 70's

1942 Birthday - Barry Wood, cricketer, England opener in early 70's

1942 Birthday - Arthur Barrett, cricketer, WI leggie early 70's

1939 Birthday - Clem Cattini, born in Stoke Newton, North London, England, musician, drummer, played with The Tornados in the 1960's, appeared for diverse array of artists, featured on 45 different UK number one singles, considered most beloved early British rock n' roll figure

1939 Birthday - Brian Luckhurst, cricketer, England opener of 60's and early 70's

1938 Birthday - Chester Watson, West Indian cricket fast bowler, early 60s

1937 Birthday - V B Ranjane, Indian cricket fast bowler, early 1960's

1937 Birthday - Barry Shepherd, cricketer, Australian lefty bat early 60's

1937 Birthday - R Surendranath, cricketer, Indian pace bowler in 11 Tests early 60s

1936 Birthday - Eric Russell, cricketer, England opening batsman early 60s

1935 Birthday - Paul Barton, cricketer, New Zealand batsman in early 1960's, century vs. South Africa

1935 Birthday - Peter Frankl, born in Hungary, pianist, performs classical music, Romantic period, early Modern, recorded the complete solo piano music of Debussy, performed with world class orchestras throughout America and Europe

1935 Birthday - Geoff Pullar, cricketer, England opening batsman late 50's early 60's

1934 Birthday - Ron Gaunt, cricketer, Australian fast bowler late 50s early 60s

1934 Birthday - Brian Bolus, cricketer, England opening batsman early 60's

1933 Birthday - Joseph D. Early, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1975 - 1993

1931 Birthday - Leslie Thomas, born in Newport, Wales, author, published 'In My Wildest Dreams', recounting childhood in South Wales, in early life, wrote columns for London Evening News newspaper

1930 Birthday - Michael Melle, cricketer, South African pace bowler of early 1950's

1928 Birthday - Ken Archer, cricketer, Australian batsman, 5 Tests early 50s

1927 Birthday - Ramesh Divecha, cricketer, eleven wickets for India in early 50's

1927 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)

1926 Birthday - John Dewes, cricketer, England opener late 40's early 50's

1926 Birthday - Probir Sen, cricket wicketkeeper, India in late 40's/early 50's

1924 Event - Adolf Hitler freed from jail early

1923 Birthday - Sadu Shinde, cricketer, Indian leg-spinner late 1940's/early 1950's

1922 Birthday - Roy Tattersall, cricketer, brilliant England off-spinner early 50's

1922 Birthday - Allan Watkins, cricketer, England batsman late 40s early 50s

1921 Birthday - H. C. Artmann, born in Vienna, Australia, born Hans Carl Artmann, also known as Ib Hansen, writer, poet, celebrated for his early Viennese poems

1920 Birthday - Jack Cheetham, cricketer, South African batsman, Test captain early 50's

1920 Birthday - Early Wynn, Hartford Ala, baseball Hall of famer, pitcher

1918 Birthday - Doug Ring, cricketer, Australian leggie of the late 40's early 50's

1918 Event - Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early

1918 Birthday - Arthur McIntyre, cricket wicket-keeper, England 3 times early 50's

1913 Event - "Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released

1912 Death - Georg Heym, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style, dies at 24 from falling through the ice, trying to save a friend

1908 Birthday - Bill Merritt, cricketer, early New Zealand Test leg-spinner, also Northants

1907 Death - Harry Boyle, round-arm cricket bowler (12 of Australia's early Tests), dies

1906 Birthday - Alan Fairfax, cricketer, Australian all-rounder late 20's early 30's

1905 Birthday - Ian Cromb, cricketer, New Zealand pace bowler in the early 1930's

1903 Birthday - Johnny Blood, aka John McNally, early NFL halfback, Green Bay

1903 Birthday - Kay Petre, early racing driver

1902 Birthday - Milford "Curly" Page, cricketer, New Zealand bat early 1930's, All Black half

1901 Birthday - George Duckworth, cricket wicket-keeper, England late 20's early 30's

1900 Event - An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hours

1896 Birthday - Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer, Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926

1896 Birthday - Cyril Allcott, cricketer, New Zealand all-rounder in their early Tests

1894 Birthday - Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star, 1920-26

1894 Birthday - Guy Chamberlin, early NFL end/coach, Canton, Frankford, Cards

1892 Birthday - Johnny Dodds, early jazz clarinettist

1892 Birthday - Hal Roach, early film director/producer, 1 Million BC

1891 Birthday - Roy Agnew, born in Sydney, Australia, composer, pianist, considered best composer of early 20th century Australia

1887 Birthday - Georg Heym, born in Hirschberg, Germany, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style

1885 Birthday - Erich von Stroheim, early film director/actor, Grand Illusion

1885 Birthday - Eugen Herrigel, Germany, philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe

1883 Birthday - Albert "Tibby" Cotter, cricketer, great Aussie quick of early century

1881 Birthday - Aubrey Faulkner, cricketer, great South Africa all-rounder early 20th cent

1878 Birthday - Hanson Carter, cricketer, Yorkshire Aussie WK of early 20th century

1876 Birthday - Bert Vogler, cricketer, early South African googly bowler

1865 Event - General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough

1864 Event - Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia, General Early Retreats to Brown's Gap

1864 Event - Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley

1864 Event - Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, MD)

1864 Event - Confederate forces led by General J Early begin invasion of Washington D.C.

1864 Event - Harpers Ferry, West Virginia - Federals evacuate in face of Early's advance

1864 Event - General Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington D.C.

1864 Event - Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley

1862 Death - Alexander Early Stone, Confederate, dies in battle

1862 Event - Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington D.C.

1857 Birthday - Conrad Haebler, German historian, Early printers of Spain/Portugal

1851 Birthday - Oliver Joseph Lodge, born in England, early radio pioneer

1844 Birthday - 'Abdu'l-Baha, early Baha'i leader, 'Azamat 7, 1

1836 Event - Mexico attacks Alamo in the early morning

1818 Event - Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle)

1816 Birthday - Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General Confederate Army

1801 Death - Novalis, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night', dies from tuberculosis in the Germany, at age 28

1794 Death - Marquis de Condorcet (Marie Jean Antoine Nicholas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet) , philosopher, mathematician, early political scientist and inventor of the Condorcet method, dies

1772 Birthday - Novalis, born in Oberwiederstedt, Germany, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night'

1729 Birthday - Henry William, Baron, Stiegel, early American glassmaker

1492 Event - Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early

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