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Hands
1996
Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85
1991
Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured
1990
U.S. hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians
1986
Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from California to New York
1982
28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec
1977
Vietnam hands over MIA to U.S.
1974
President Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
1972
Mahalia Jackson, vocalist (Got Whole World in His Hands), dies at 61
1962
St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands
1957
Holly Dunn, born in San Antonio, Texas, country singer, Daddy's Hands
1948
Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands
1944
French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands
1943
Arundel (Solomon Island) in U.S. hands
1941
Adm Nomura and Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
1940
Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands
1938
Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw, Poland, director, Hands Up, Deep End
1918
Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors
1911
Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, gospel singer, Whole World in his Hands
1911
Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress, Hands of a Stranger
1907
President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day
1900
Brig-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands
1861
Ft. Pikens, Florida falls into state hands
1816
Java again in Dutch hands
1800
Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803)
1793
Bank of England hands out 1st 5 pound note
1667
English colony Suriname in Dutch hands
1583
Orlando Gibbons, English composer, O Clap Your Hands, baptized
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