In 1854, some 50 opponents to slavery met at a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wis., to call for a new political group. The organization would later become known as the Republican Party.
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Actress Molly Picon (1898)
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling (1901)
Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of the late Josef Stalin (1926)
Auto racer Mario Andretti (1940)
Actor Frank Bonner (1942)
Ex-Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones (1942)
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"In all types of activity it is important to know how to stop before what you do not know and not to think that you know what you do not know."