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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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