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2013 Event - A new study reports that all Europeans are related to a small group of ancestors dating back only 1,000 years; researchers believe it's likely that everyone in the world is related over the past few thousand years

2012 Event - In Egypt, one hundred thousand people gather around the Presidential palace to protest proposed constitutional changes by Mohamed Morsi, the President of Egypt

2012 Event - Wangdue Phodrang Dzong, the four thousand year-old ridge-top monastery in Bhutan catches fire and is destroyed; no relics were lost in the fire because the monastery was under renovation

2003 Death - Herb Gardner, writer, A Thousand Clowns, dies at 68

1996 Event - "Thousand Clowns," closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 32 performs

1996 Event - "Thousand Clowns" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 32 performances

1995 Death - Gary Bond, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days), dies at 55

1993 Death - Jean King, actress (Night Hasa a Thousand Eyes), dies at 76

1986 Birthday - Amanda Bynes, born in Thousand Oaks, California, singer, actor, former cast member on Nickelodeon's 'Figure It Out' and 'All That', films include, 'Big Fat Liar', 'Hairspray'

1976 Death - Chris Kenner, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others, dies

1966 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr. (Thousand Days)

1963 Event - U.S.S.R. informs John F. Kennedy it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba

1962 Event - Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns," premieres in New York City

1951 Birthday - Chris Cooper, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, Thousand Pieces of Gold, Matewan

1945 Birthday - Kathy Young, rocker, Thousand Stars in the Sky

1943 Birthday - Bobby Vee, born in Fargo, North Dakota, Devil or Angel, Night has a Thousand Eyes

1940 Birthday - Gary Bond, England, actor, Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days

1938 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting U.S. and Canada

1929 Birthday - Chris Kenner, born in Kenner, near New Orleans, Louisiana, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others

1922 Birthday - Jason Robards, Jr., Chicago, actor, A Thousand Clowns, Any Wednesday

1919 Birthday - Louis Heren, journalist and writer, China's Three Thousand Years

1899 Birthday - Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist, Thousand Cranes

1801 Birthday - Edward William Lane, translator, Thousand and 1 Nights













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