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2012 Event - A poll by the British Film Institute's 'Sight and Sound' magazine lists Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller 'Vertigo' as the greatest film of all time

2011 Event - The Ames Straw Poll for 2012 Presidential election candidates is taken; Michele Bachmann is the winner

2011 Event - In Iran, the Central Bank of Iran launches a website which it will use to poll Iranians on planned economic reforms and changing the national currency

1991 Event - Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll

1990 Death - K L Poll, journalist/author, dies

1990 Event - Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws

1987 Event - 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins

1986 Event - 10th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Young and Restless wins

1984 Death - George H Gallup, pollster (Gallup Poll), dies at 82

1984 Event - 8th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards

1971 Death - Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll), dies at 70

1966 Event - U.S. Supreme Court rules the poll tax unconstitutional

1964 Event - Amendment 24 outlaws poll tax

1964 Event - 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections

1948 Event - 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax

1942 Event - "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll

1921 Birthday - Lou Harris, pollster, Lou Harris Poll

1901 Birthday - George Gallup, Jefferson Iowa, public opinion pollster, Gallup Poll

1900 Birthday - Elmo Roper, pollster, Roper Poll

1851 Event - Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends

1824 Event - Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson













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