In 1853, the United States bought some 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in a deal that became known as the Gadsden Purchase, for theman who engineered it, James Gadsden. (The area became the southern part of Arizona and New Mexico.)
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Actress Jeanette Nolan (1911)
Former Beauty pageant host Bert Parks (1914)
Actress Jo Van Fleet (1919)
Singer Bo Diddley (1928)
ActorJack Lord (1930)
Actor John Hillerman (1932)
Baseball hall-of-famer Sandy Koufax (1935)
Singer-musician Michael Nesmith (1942)
Actress Tracey Ullman (1959)
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"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, none ever will."