In 1918, fighting in World War I came to an end with signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany inside a railroad car in the Forest of Compiegne in France.
In 1620, 41 Pilgrims signed a compact aboard the Mayflower, which was anchored off the Massachusetts coast, calling for a
"body politick" to enact "just and equal laws."
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Former State Department official Alger Hiss (1904)
Senator William Proxmire [D-Wis] (1915)
Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922)
Comedian Jonathan Winters (1925)
Actress Bibi Andersson (1935)
Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller (1951)
Actor Philip McKeon (1964)
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"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."