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Poverty


1994 Karl R Popper, philosopher (Poverty of Historianism), dies at 92

1966 Ina Boudier-Baker, Dutch author (Poverty), dies at 88

1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson asks for a War on Poverty

1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"

1954 Jeffrey Sachs, born in Detroit, Michigan, Jeffrey David Sachs, economist, founder, co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance to end extreme poverty and hunger, Senior Advisor to the Global Poverty Project

1914 Baltimore Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore and Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty

1903 Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer, Temptation of Poverty

1875 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist, Poverty

1839 Henry George, land reformer/writer, Progress and Poverty

1506 Christopher Columbus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55


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