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| Tuesday,
December
28,
2004 |
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AP Highlight in History:
On Dec. 28, 1856, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, was born in Staunton, Va.
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| On this date in: |
| 1694 | Queen Mary II of England died after five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III. |
| 1832 | John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Andrew Jackson. |
| 1846 | Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union. |
| 1897 | ''Cyrano de Bergerac,'' a play by Edmond Rostand, premiered in Paris. |
| 1937 | Composer Maurice Ravel died in Paris. |
| 1945 | Congress officially recognized the ''Pledge of Allegiance.'' |
| 1973 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn published ''Gulag Archipelago,'' an expose of the Soviet prison system. |
| 1981 | Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, was born in Norfolk, Va. |
| 1982 | Nevell Johnson Jr., a black man, was mortally wounded by a police officer in a Miami video arcade, setting off three days of race-related disturbances that left another man dead. |
| 1989 | Alexander Dubcek, the former Czechoslovak Communist leader who was deposed in a Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968, was named chairman of the country's parliament. |
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| Today's Birthdays: |
| Actor Denzel Washington turns 50 years old today. |
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| Lou Jacobi | Actor | 91 |
| Johnny Otis | Bandleader | 83 |
| Maggie Smith | Actress | 70 |
| Charles Neville | Rock singer-musician (The Neville Brothers) | 66 |
| Edgar Winter | Rock singer-musician | 58 |
| Alex Chilton | Rock singer-musician | 54 |
| Joe Diffie | Country singer | 46 |
| Mike McGuire | Country musician (Shenandoah) | 46 |
| Ray Borque | Hockey hall-of-famer | 44 |
| Chad McQueen | Actor | 44 |
| Marty Roe | Country singer-musician (Diamond Rio) | 44 |
| Mauricio Mendoza | Actor | 35 |
| Seth Meyers | Comedian (''Saturday Night Live'') | 31 |
| Sienna Miller | Actress | 23 |
| Mackenzie Rosman | Actress (''7th Heaven'') | 15 |
| Tennis player James Blake turns 25 years old today. |
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