1995 Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found paper (Typhoon), dies at 82
1993 Roy Budd, English jazz pianist/composer (Paper Tiger), dies at 46
1993 James Bridges, writer and director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57
1992 Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
1988 John Houseman, actor (Paper Chase, Fog), dies of spinal cancer at 86
1988 John Houseman, actor (Paper Chase), dies at 86
1986 Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money
1985 Victor W. Farris, inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies
1982 Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash
1969 Jillian Hennessy, Edmonton, twin actress, Claire-Law and Order, Paper
1968 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from U.S. paper money
1966 Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
1963 Terry Farrell, Cedar Rapids, actress, Paper Dolls, Jadzia Dax-STDS9
1963 Tatum O'Neal, LA Cal, Mrs. John McEnroe, Paper Moon, Little Darlings
1962 Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at 64
1959 Marie Osmond, born in Ogden, Utah, singer and actress, Paper Roses, Goin' Coconuts
1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
1955 Mimi Rogers, born in Coral Gables, Florida, actress, Paper Dolls, The Rousters
1951 Timothy Bottoms, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Paper Chase, East of Eden
1951 James Stephens, Mount Kisko, New York, actor, Paper Chase, Devil's Island
1950 Michael Vaughn, rocker, Paper Lace
1949 Tony Hoty, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor, Ransom, Paper
1949 Lindsay Wagner, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Bionic Woman, Paper Chase, Nighthawks
1948 Robert Ginty, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Paper Chase, White Fire
1948 Cliff Fish, rocker, Paper Lace
1946 Philip Wright, rocker, Paper Lace
1945 Ella Fitzgerald and Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"
1944 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw," executed at Camp Vught
1944 Alan Fudge, Wichita, Kansas, actor, Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls
1942 "Stars and Stripes" paper for U.S. Armed Forces starts
1941 Ryan O'Neal, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Peyton Place, Paper Moon, Love Story
1941 Ryan O'Neal, actor, Love Story, Paper Moon
1939 Brenda Vaccaro, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Cactus Flower, Sara, Paper Dolls
1939 Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes"
1935 Roy Scheider, actor, Jaws, Fren Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion
1933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Georgia)
1930 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
1930 Cow flown and milked, milk sealed in paper containers and parachuted
1929 U.S. issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1928 Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman, Coronet
1927 George Plimpton, New York City, sports writer, Paper Lion
1913 Kenneth Horne, English paper manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1911 Hal Porter, Australia, writer, Tilted Cross, Paper Chase
1903 William Plomer, Transvaal, author, Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa
1898 Vicente Aleixandre, born in Spain, writer, Ambito, Bird of Paper, Nobel 1977
1895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
1890 Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London
1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
1871 Albert L Jones (New York City), patents corrugated paper
1863 1st U.S. newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
1862 U.S. issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1000)
1862 Paper currency introduced in U.S. by President Abraham Lincoln
1861 Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper
1861 Congress authorizes paper money
1859 Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Massachusetts
1854 Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo
1850 Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif
1843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas and rope) patented, Mass
1827 Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing
1826 Ebenezer Butterick, inventor, tissue paper dress pattern
1806 Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1775 2nd Continental Congress convenes in Pennsylvania issues paper currency for 1st time
1762 Austria uses 1st paper currency
1690 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
1672 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
580 Chinese invents toilet paper
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