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2007 Vietnam becomes the 150th member of the World Trade Organization

2002 Joe Cobb, actor, an original Our Gang cast member, dies at 84

1996 Kurt Schmucker, member (Union of Christian Democrats), dies

1994 John Newman, Australian parlement member (Lab), murdered at 47

1994 Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member, dies at 81

1993 Harry Haldeman, Nixon's cabinet member (1968-73), dies

1993 12 member European Economic Community set up vast free trade zone

1992 Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st Chamber member (CPN), dies

1991 Robert Q Lewis, U.S. comic/TV panel member (RQL Show), dies at 70

1991 Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies

1990 Lillian "Miss" Miller, audience member (Merv Griffin, Tonight), dies

1990 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)

1988 Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73

1988 Jacques de Kadt, Dutch 2nd chamber member (soc-dem), dies at 90

1987 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member

1986 C Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, CHU Member of Dutch parliament, dies at 85

1986 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of North Carolina State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself

1984 Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud

1983 Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA

1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO

1981 Spain becomes a member of the NATO alliance

1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison

1980 William O Douglas, member U.S. Supreme court (1939-75), dies at 81

1979 European Market accepts Greece as member

1977 Vietnam becomes member of U.N.

1974 Robert Cox, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79

1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth

1968 Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL

1967 Wasim Haider, cricketer, member Pakistan's 1992 World Cup squad

1966 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer)

1966 Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)

1965 Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe

1964 101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling)

1963 Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations

1962 110th member of United Nations admitted (Uganda)

1962 Algeria admitted as 109th member of U.N.

1962 Algeria becomes member of Arab League

1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of U.S.S.R.

1961 Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN

1961 Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of U.N.

1961 Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of CP of U.S.S.R.

1960 Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth

1960 BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member

1958 Central African Rep made autonomous member of Fr Comm (Natl Day)

1958 Margo [AM] Vliegenthart, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, PvdA

1956 D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia

1955 Christine Oddy, British member European parliament

1954 Anne Mcintosh, British member European parliament

1954 Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden)

1954 J. E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black U.S. sub-cabinet member

1953 Wim G J M van de Camp, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, CDA

1953 Helmer C Koetje, Dutch 2nd chamber member, CDA

1950 Indonesia becomes 60th member of UN

1950 Donna Jean Willmott, born in Akron, Ohio, FALN member, FBI most wanted

1950 U.N. member states begin using integrated forces against North Korea

1950 Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding," premieres in New York City

1949 By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of U.N.

1947 Mark Nelson, born in Brooklyn, New York, crew member, Biosphere 2

1946 Fred Borgman, Dutch 2nd chamber member, CDA

1945 Claude D Marks, Buenos Aires Argent, FALN member, FBI most wanted

1945 Jeremy Hanley, British Lower house member

1945 World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member

1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters

1943 WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters

1943 John Lilipaly, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, PvdA

1943 Maarten B Engwirda, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, D66

1942 Pallo Jordan, South African ANC member/heads, Radio Freedom

1941 Nazibezetters oblige artsen member to become of Artsenkamer

1941 Hans Gualtherie van Weezel, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, CDA

1941 Jan G H Krajenbrink, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, CDA

1941 Joop H van den Berg, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, PvdA

1940 William Fred Dempster, born in Berkeley, California, crew member, Biosphere 2

1940 Gerrit H. Terpstra, economist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member, CDA

1940 Joris [Georges] van Severen, Flem fascist/Member of parliament, dies

1937 Pamela McEvoy-Johnston, psychotherapist-board member, WIC

1935 Bonno Spieker, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, PvdA

1934 Ulrike Meinhof, German Red Army member

1934 Ernst Rohm, German staff member, executed at 46

1934 Ad G J Lansink, chemist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member, CDA

1934 Riet [M J J] Roosen-van Pelt, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, CDA

1933 Huib Eversdijk, Dutch 2nd chamber member, CDA

1933 Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member

1932 Hessel Rienks, economist/Dutch 2nd chamber member, PvdA

1932 U.S. bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer and Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold)

1931 Willem H Nolens, priest/2nd Chamber member, dies

1931 Marylyn Roberts, librarian/founding member, WIC

1931 Henk Knol, Dutch 2nd chamber member, PvdA

1930 Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch 2nd chamber member, CDA

1930 Harrie J. B. Aarts, Dutch 2nd chamber member, CDA

1930 Jan van Noor, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, CDA

1929 Herman T M Lauxtermann, Dutch 2nd chamber member, VVD

1926 Haya van Someren-Downer, 2nd Member of parliament, Dutch Lib Party

1925 Huub H Jacobse, member of Dutch 2nd chamber, Liberal

1924 Patricia Roberts Harris, 1st U.S. black woman cabinet member

1923 Fred van der Spek, Dutch 2nd chamber member, PSP

1921 John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies

1919 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament

1919 US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament

1919 Cornelis Berkhouwer, Member of 2nd chamber, Dutch Liberal Party

1918 Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch attorney/Member of 1st chamber, KVP/CDA

1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of U.S. House of Representatives

1917 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress

1914 Giorgio Almirante, born in Italy, fascist, member of parliament, 1948-87,

1914 Archibald J Gumede, South Africa ANC member/chairman, UDF

1912 Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member

1908 Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st chamber member, CPN

1907 Grace Hamilton, 1st black member of Georgia state legislature

1906 Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Sec of Commerce

1906 Andrei P Kirilenko, Russian member of Central Committee of CP

1899 Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member

1897 Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70

1895 Anastas I Mikoyan, Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet

1895 Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/member High Court

1894 Joris [Georges] of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament

1892 Bill Powers, U.S. member of Daltonbende, dies

1892 Dick Broadwell, U.S. member of Daltonbende, dies

1892 Grat Dalton, U.S. member of Daltonbende, dies

1892 Oliver Hardy, Harlem, Georgia, comedy team member, Laurel and Hardy

1891 Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, Fren prince/member National Convention, dies at 68

1887 Ernst Rohm, German staff member/Bolivian leader/SA

1886 Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement

1884 Hugh "Shorty" Ray, supervisor of NFL officials, HOF member

1879 Henri-Honore Giraud, French general/member of parliament

1875 Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member, SDAP, 1918-37

1873 Margaret Bondfield, British Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member

1870 Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union

1870 Hiram Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)

1868 Jacob van Lennep, Dutch 2nd member of parliament, dies at 66

1868 1st black cabinet member in South Carolina (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state)

1862 [Auguste-]Maurice Barres, French writer/member of parliament

1862 Dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament

1859 John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, dies at 72

1851 John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house member

1850 Horatio Herbert Kitchener, England, original Order of Merit member

1846 Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member

1839 Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society

1838 Eugen Richter, German parliament member, Liberal

1834 Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member

1831 Former President John Q Adams takes his seat as member of House of Reps

1830 Anthony FRE Haersolte, member of Executing Regime, dies at 73

1822 Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention

1820 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63

1809 Francois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member

1808 Gyorgy Apponyi, Hungarian Parliament member

1808 Salmon P Chase, Sen-R, cabinet member, 6th chief justice, 1864-73

1805 Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, Dutch judge/member of parliament

1803 John ACA van Nispen Sevenaer, Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, 1848-75

1793 Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies

1793 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public

1791 1st Jewish member of U.S. Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office

1764 John Goodricke, English astronomer/member Royal Society

1761 Earl d'Andreossi, French general and member of parliament

1756 Anthony FRE Haersolte, member of Executing Regime

1756 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public

1643 John Pym, English House of Commons member, dies at about 59

1642 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society

1629 Arnold Baert, Flemish lawyer/member of Great Council, dies at about 74

1555 William of Orange becomes member of Council of State



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