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2012 Event - Adele, One Direction, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran are among the winners at the 2012 BRIT Awards for British popular music

2012 Event - In Seville, Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Rajoy is reelected head of the Popular Party

2011 Event - In Spain, voters go to the polls for the general election; the center-right Popular Party wins a parliamentary majority

2009 Death - Derek B, rapper, record producer, remixer, popular songs included 'Bad Young Brother' and 'Goodgroove', dies of a heart attack in London, at age 44

2004 Event - George W. Bush wins a second term as U.S. president, winning 51% of the popular vote

2000 Event - Al Gore wins the popular vote but loses the electoral vote to George W. Bush

1992 Event - SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival

1990 Event - Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election

1990 Death - Mario De Andrade, founder (Movimiento Popular of Lib of Angola), dies

1987 Event - Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica and Matthew)

1982 Death - Hans Selye, endocrinologist, first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, began stress research in 1926, published 7 popular books, 1,700 research papers, 15 monographs, dies in Montreal, Canada

1977 Death - HA Rey, author of popular constellation book, dies at 78

1974 Event - Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer

1973 Birthday - Trick Daddy, born in Miami, Florida, rapper, popular hits 'Let's Go', 'Shut Up', 'Thugs are Us'

1970 Birthday - Beck, born in Los Angeles, California, born Bek David Campbell, guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist, popular recordings include 'Odelay', 'Sea Change'

1967 Event - BBC starts their own popular music radio station

1966 Event - John Lennon, says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"

1966 Birthday - Shabba Ranks, born in Sturgetown, St. Ann, Jamaica, born Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon, reggae singer, recording artist, sex symbol, popular dancehall DJ, toaster, successful U.S. crossover artist, became first Grammy-Award winning dancehall artist

1965 Birthday - Derek B, born in London, born Derek Boland, rapper, record producer, remixer, popular songs included 'Bad Young Brother' and 'Goodgroove'

1964 Event - GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy

1961 Birthday - Michael Torke, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, composer, style includes jazz, minimalism, most popular work, 'Javelin', composed for 1996 Summer Olympics

1959 Event - Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold

1955 Event - Pope Pius XII encyclical on sacred music and popular music

1955 Birthday - James Jonathan Sylvers, born in Memphis, Tennessee, keyboardist, vocalist, member of The Sylvers, a popular 1970's rhythm and blues family group

1953 Birthday - Johnny Clegg, born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, Jonathan 'Johnny' Clegg, musician, recording artist, Grammy-Award nominee, mbaqanga, Afro-pop genres, formed and performed with Juluka band, formed Savuka band, popular figure in South African music history

1952 Birthday - John Lynch, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, politician, Democrat, 90th Governor of New Hampshire, second most popular Governor in the nation

1952 Event - Popular uprising in Bolivia

1950 Birthday - David Jensen, born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, David 'Kid' Jensen, popular British radio DJ, played progressive music, hosted BBC pop network, Radio 1, Top of the Pops presenter, interviewed Duran Duran, promoted The Police before they were commercially successful

1943 Birthday - Judith Durham, born Melbourne, Australia, Judith Mavis Cock, singer, jazz, lead vocalist for The Seekers, Australian popular folk music group

1942 Birthday - Greg Ridley, born in Cumberland, England, rock, bass guitarist, played for Humble Pie and Spooky Tooth, popular double album Performance Rockin' the Fillmore

1936 Event - Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins elections

1936 Event - Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular

1928 Birthday - James Kilfedder, MP, Ulster Popular Unionist

1924 Event - Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana

1914 Birthday - Robert Alda, New York City, actor, Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand

1913 Event - Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1

1913 Event - 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote

1907 Birthday - Hans Selye, born in Vienna, Austria, endocrinologist, first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, began stress research in 1926, published 7 popular books, 1,700 research papers, 15 monographs

1900 Death - Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies

1889 Death - Charles Mackay, poet, writer, journalist, songwriter, wrote for the Morning Chronicle, Illustrated London News, wrote book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', 1841, wrote popular song 'Cheer, Boys, Cheer', dies

1877 Event - Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory

1876 Event - Bananas become popular in U.S., at Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

1861 Event - By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from U.S.

1845 Event - Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton, China

1824 Event - Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams

1814 Birthday - Charles Mackay, born in Perth, Scotland, poet, writer, journalist, songwriter, wrote for the Morning Chronicle, Illustrated London News, wrote book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', 1841, wrote popular song 'Cheer, Boys, Cheer'

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