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2000 David Brower, ecological activist, executive director of the Sierra Club for nearly 20 years, dies at 88

1995 Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), dies at 77

1989 Republic Day in Sierra Leone

1981 Wanda Hendrix, actress (Sierra, Ride the Pink Horse), dies

1980 Raoul Walsh, U.S. director (High Sierra), dies at about 88

1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution

1971 Audie Murphy, WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46

1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day)

1969 B. Traven, wrote, 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', dies at 87

1965 Henry Travers, actor (Bells of St. Mary, High Sierra), dies at 91

1965 Ruben Sierra, Rio Piedras Puerto Rico, outfielder, New York Yankees

1964 Peter Hanson, English/Sierra Leone/Dutch actor, Darling How Could You

1963 Margarita Sierra, actress (Surfside 6), dies after heart surgery at 26

1961 Sierra Leone declares independence from U.K.

1952 Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26

1950 Ernest Thompson, Bellows Fall Vt, actor, Sierra, Westside Medical

1948 Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens

1937 Joseph Saidu Momoh, gen/president, Sierra Leone

1934 J Micheal McCloskey, environmentalist/chairman, Sierra Club

1929 Jack Hogan, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, ator, Combat, Adam 12, Sierra

1928 Rita Gam, born in Pittsburgh, actress, Distortions, Hannibal, Sierra Baron

1927 Francois Leydet, sierra club, Last Redwoods

1925 Joan Leslie, Detroit, actress, High Sierra, Yankee Doodle Dandy

1918 Charles J "Tim" Holt, U.S. actor, Treasure of Sierra Madre

1915 Cornel Wilde, New York City, actor, High Sierra, 5th Musketeer

1912 David Brower, environmentalist/president, Sierra Club

1892 Sierra Club forms in San Francisco

1892 Sierra Club forms by John Muir for conservation of nature

1890 Henry Hull, born in Louisville, Kentucky, actor, Tobacco Rd, Boys Town, High Sierra

1890 B. Traven, born in Chicago, writer, wrote, 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

1884 Walter Huston, actor, Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre

1874 Henry Travers, born in England, actor, Bells of St. Mary, High Sierra

1846 Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada; 42 die

1820 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (New York to Sierra Leone)

1808 Sierra Leone becomes a British colony

1788 Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves


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