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2004 Hurricane Frances hits Florida, causing $40 billion in damage.

2004 Frances Dee, actress, Little Women, dies at 96

1997 69th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, The English Patient wins Best Picture, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win lead acting awards

1996 Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist, dies at 85

1996 Frances Lear, writer, dies at 73

1995 Francis Joan Frances Will, actress, dies at 75

1994 Frances Tustin, child Psychologist, dies at 81

1994 Frances Heflin, actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children), dies at 70

1994 Frances Gifford, dies of emphysema, at 71

1993 Frances Hunt, actress (You're a Sweetheart), dies of stroke at 77

1992 Frances votes in favor of Maastricht treaty

1992 Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love

1991 Frances Faye, singer and actress (Pretty Baby), dies after strokes

1989 Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry), dies at 86

1984 Paul Frances Webster, lyricist, dies of Parkinson's disease at 76

1984 Frances Goodrich, (Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 93 of lung cancer

1977 Ryan Frances, actor, Trevor-Sisters

1976 Frances Howard, actress (Swan, Shock Punch), dies at 73

1973 Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85

1970 Frances Farmer, actress (Toast of NY, Come and Get It), dies at 55

1965 Frances Perkins, U.S. 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83

1961 Diana Frances Spencer, Sandringham England, Princess of Wales, -97

1958 Frances Barber, Wolverhampton England, actress, Castaway

1957 Frances McDormand, actress, Fargo, Academy Award

1956 Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV

1956 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

1955 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Frances Dafoe and Bowden of CAN

1954 Frances Bucholz, rocker, Scorpions-Wind of Change

1954 Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden CAN

1953 Frances Conroy, American Actress

1947 Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83

1947 Jeffrey DeMunn, born in Buffalo, New York, actor, Blaze, Frances, Windy City

1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint

1945 Neil Frances Tennant, rocker, Pet Shop Boy-West End Girl

1944 Frances de la Tour, actress, Bejeweled, Wombling Free

1943 Sam Shepard, Illinois, actor and playwright, Frances, Crimes of the Heart

1943 Julia Cumberlege, born in England, Julia Frances Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege, politician, businesswoman, British Conservative Party, member of Dames of the Order of St. Gregory the Great

1940 Frances FitzGerald, New York City, journalist/author, Fire in the Lake

1940 Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"

1938 America's 1st saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified

1938 Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights

1938 Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank

1933 Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member

1930 Frances Sternhagen, Washington D.C., actress, Outland, Starting Over

1924 Judy Garland, 2, billed as Baby Frances, show business debut

1923 Frances Heflin, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, actress, Mona Tyler-All My Children

1923 Frances Lear, Larchmont, New York, Woman's magazine publisher, Lears

1922 Frances Rafferty, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actress, December Bride

1920 Joan Frances Will, actress

1920 Frances K Bairstow, educator/labor relations consultant

1914 Frances Farmer, born in Seattle, Washington, actress, Son of Fury, Among the Living

1913 Frances Swem Anderson, technologist, nuclear medicine

1913 Frances Tustin, child psychologist

1913 Frances Langford, born in Lakeland, Florida, singer, Armed Forces Hour, Star Time

1912 Dale Evans, Frances Butts, Uvalde, Texas, cowgirl, Roy Rogers Show

1912 Mary Frances Allitsen, composer, dies at 63

1911 Julia Frances Smith, composer

1910 Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist

1907 Frances Dee, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Of Human Bondage

1905 Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall

1903 Frances Clode, CEO, WRVS

1902 Frances Beauvier, actress, Aunt Bea-Andy Griffith Show

1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"

1898 Frances Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), dies at 58

1898 Frances E. Willard, American Activist

1888 Frances Marion, born in San Francisco, California, screenwriter/actress, Pollyanna

1886 Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency, Frances Folsom

1885 Frances Parkinson Keyes, novelist, Dinner at Antoine

1880 Frances Perkins, 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position, Labor

1864 Frances Folsom Cleveland, 1st lady, 1885-89, 93-97

1849 Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of childrens book, My Secret Garden

1848 Mary Frances Allitsen, composer

1839 Frances E C Willard, New York, founder, Woman's Christian Temperance Union

1839 Frances E. Willard, American Activist

1825 Frances E. W. Harper, famous African

1822 Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society

1809 Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble, England, Shakespearian actress, Juliet

1652 Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies

1587 Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain and sinks Spanish fleet

1581 Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of world

1269 King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame


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