In 1784, in a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed unhappiness over the choice of the eagle as the symbol of America, and expressed his own preference: the turkey.
In 1788, the first European settlers in Australia, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, landed in present-day Sydney. (The party included 700 convicts from England.)
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Actor Paul Newman (1925)
Singer Eartha Kitt (1928)
Movie director Roger Vadim (1928)
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer (1929)
Sportscaster-actor Bob Uecker (1935)
Activist Angela Davis (1944)
Movie critic Gene Siskel (1946)
Singer-musician Eddie Van Halen (1957)
Hockey star Wayne Gretzky (1961)
Musician Andrew Ridgeley (1963)
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"A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself."