In 1987, on the first day of their three-day White House summit, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a treaty under which the superposers agreed to destroy their arsenals of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
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Entertainer sammy Davis Jr. (1925)
Actor-director Maximilian Slchell (1930)
Comedian Flip Wilson (1933)
Rock singer Gregg Allman (1947)
Actress Kim Basinger (1953)
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"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, who am I for? And if not now, when?"
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From the Talmud, a collection of writings that constitute the Jewish civil and religious law.