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1996 Death - Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85

1991 Event - Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured

1990 Event - U.S. hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians

1986 Event - Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from California to New York

1982 Event - 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec

1977 Event - Vietnam hands over MIA to U.S.

1974 Event - President Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings

1972 Death - Mahalia Jackson, vocalist (Got Whole World in His Hands), dies at 61

1962 Event - St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands

1957 Birthday - Holly Dunn, born in San Antonio, Texas, country singer, Daddy's Hands

1948 Event - Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands

1944 Event - French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands

1943 Event - Arundel (Solomon Island) in U.S. hands

1941 Event - Admiral Nomura and Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note

1940 Event - Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands

1938 Birthday - Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw, Poland, director, Hands Up, Deep End

1918 Event - Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors

1911 Birthday - Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, gospel singer, Whole World in his Hands

1911 Birthday - Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress, Hands of a Stranger

1907 Event - President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day

1900 Event - Brigadier General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands

1816 Event - Java again in Dutch hands

1800 Event - Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803)

1793 Event - Bank of England hands out 1st 5 pound note

1667 Event - English colony Suriname in Dutch hands

1583 Birthday - Orlando Gibbons, English composer, O Clap Your Hands, baptized













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