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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, Fren 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 hr news) ends on radio

1975 NBC News and Information Service (24 hr news) 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 Carl T. Rowan named director of U.S. Information Agency

1960 Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78

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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