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1995 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song
1990 Jacques Soustelle, French ethnology/minister of Information, dies at 78 1984 Central Intelligence Agency's Information Act passes 1981 John Kieran, TV host (Information Please), dies at 89 1979 CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service 1979 "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line 1977 NBC News and Information Service (24 hour news) ends on radio 1975 NBC News and Information Service, a 24 hour news service, premieres on radio 1974 Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto 1974 President Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in 1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Freedom of Information Act 1964 W Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, English Minister of Information, dies at 85 1964 Carl T. Rowan named director of U.S. Information Agency 1960 Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78 1947 Bill Fontana, born in Cleveland, Ohio, composer, sound art pioneer, created sounds sculptures in 1976, using urban surroundings as a source of musical information, to evoke visual imagery 1939 GAI Schuijt, Dutch jurist, information law 1938 Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network 1934 U.S. Information Service opens 1933 Josef Gobbels becomes German minister of Information and Propaganda 1916 Claude Shannon, information theorist 1912 Jacques Soustelle, French minister of information 1904 Clifton Fadiman, born in Brooklyn, New York, TV host, Information Please, Quiz Kids 1881 Franklin P Adams, born in Chicago, Illinois, columnist, Information Please |
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