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22 Sep, 1960

Isaac Herzog born in Tel Aviv, Israel

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Isaac Herzog is born in Tel Avivherzogg baby picture, Israel. His father is Chaim Herzog who was President of Israel, a lawyer and an author. His mother Aura Herzog founded the Council for a beautiful Israel. Other relatives include Abba Eben (Uncle), and Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog (Grandfather and first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel). He was educated at the Ramaz School in Manhattan. He has two brothers and a sister.

Friday night dinners with Abba Eban and my father were always full of in-depth discussions about politics around the world. My childhood imbued me with the right political spirit.

1960

Creates Atlanta University civil rights org

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Bond helps create the Atlanta University student civil rights organization, which directs several years of nonviolent protests and wins integration of Atlanta’s movie theaters, lunch counters and parks.

11 Jun, 1960

Mehmet Cengiz Oz born

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dr. ozMehmet Cengiz Oz is born in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, Mustafa Oz, is a a cardiothoracic surgeon and his mother, Suna, is a physician director of a pharmaceutical company. Oz’s family is from Konya Province, Turkey. Oz goes to school at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware. He has two sisters, Seval Oz and Nazlim Oz.

[My parents] taught me to view the world with an open mind, which would eventually shape my work as a doctor.

10 May, 1960

Bono born in Dublin

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Paul Hewson is born in the suburb of Ballymun. He is the second child of Catholic father Brendan Robert Hewson, and Protestant mother Iris Elizabeth Rankin.  He experiences an admittedly average childhood until the age of 14, when his mother dies of a brain hemorrhage at his grandfather’s funeral.

The way you see the world is shaped way before you go into the world. It’s shaped through the way you see a community.  It’s shaped through the way you see a street.  I live comfortably all over the world and people say it’s incredible that you are really a ‘wherever I lay my hat, that’s my home’ person.  But I am partly that because of the way I grew up in Finglas — sleeping on a couch, or because my mother died when I was a kid I was in the house on my own a lot of the time, so I’d knock on the door of the Hanveys at teatime, you know, or the Rowens at lunchtime.

It might be London, it might be New York, but that ability to feel comfortable where I am was definitely instilled in me on Cedarwood Road.

At the time of his mother’s death, he is known as ‘Steinhegvanhuysenolegbangbangbang.’  Later this name evolves into ‘Bonavox of O’Connell Street,’ and is eventually shortened to ‘Bonavox,’ ‘Bono Vox,’  and finally ‘Bono.’

He attends school, but is more into girls than his studies.  While in school, he is initially interested in acting, but responds to an ad looking for musicians and meets up with the remaining members of what would later become U2.  He also meets his future wife.

20 Nov, 1959

Nancy Shevell born in New York

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nancy shevell high schoolNancy Shevell is the second of three children born to billionaire Myron (Mike) and Arlene Shevell.

Nancy grows up in Edison, New Jersey, playing with toy trucks alongside her dolls, and visiting truck terminals managed by her father, who owns the haulage company New England Motor Freight. In high school her interests include skiing and flying, and she is a member of her school’s all girl football team.

11 Jun, 1959

Hugh Laurie born in Oxford, England

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92377a1bc466395ce6431be0ce01448aJames Hugh Calum Laurie is born in Oxford, England, to William G. R. M. Laurie and Patricia Laurie. His father is an Olympic gold winner who works as a doctor while his mother is a housewife. He has an older brother and two older sisters.

At times, I got the feeling that my mother just didn’t like me very much.

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17 Apr, 1959

Sean Bean born in Sheffield, England

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Sean Bean is born in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire county, England. His father is Brian Bean, a fabrication shop owner, and his mother is Rita, nee Tuckwood, who works as a secretary at his father’s workshop. Growing up on a council estate, he is a fan of art and glam rock but also enjoys football.

A common misperception of me is…that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I’m pretty mild-mannered most of the time.

On advice learned from his mother:

Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There’s an inherent goodness in most people. Don’t pre-judge people – that was me Mam’s advice anyway.

20 Mar, 1959

Sting born in Omaha

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Sting is born in Omaha, Nebraska despite being billed from Venice Beach, California during his wrestling career. Sting develops an early interest in body building.

I never did the powerlifting thing, but the goal was to lift heavy. Four plates squatting for reps – 4-5, 8-10, 315 for 20, 225 for 50 – leg extensions, leg curls and that’s how we trained every single week. On the bench , my best was 435 – I was younger and I was on the gas, too. There were guys who weighed a lot less than I did who could easily do that. But I didn’t really train for power or strength. I trained for size. That’s all I was training for.

3 Feb, 1959

Dies in airplane crash

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Holly-plane-crashOn their wayu to Moorhead, Minnesota, the next venue in their Winter Dance Party Tour, Buddy Holly, 22, Jiles P Richardson, 28, and Ritchie Valens, 17, die in a plane crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa, at 0100 local time. Holly hires the single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza plane after heating problems developed on his tourbus. Reports from the scene suggest the aircraft spun out of control during a light snowstorm. The performers where thrown clear on impact. The pilot is also killed, his body was found inside the wreckage. Only the pilot’s body was found inside the wreckage as the performers were thrown clear on impact.

20 Oct, 1958

Scott Hall born in St. Mary’s County, Maryland

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Hall is born in St. Mary’s County, Maryland despite being billed from Florida during his WWE career. He develops an interest in professional wrestling as a young man and decides to pursue the sport as a career. He makes his professional debut in 1984 with Championship Wrestling from Florida.

24 Aug, 1957

Stephen Fry born in Hampstead, London

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article-0-08A24BBB000005DC-555_468x366Stephen John Fry is born in Hampstead, London to Physicist Alan John Fry and Historian Marianne Eve Fry. He has an elder brother named Roger and a younger sister named Joanna. He attends Cawston Primary School in Cawston, Norfolk.

I came from what on the surface would have looked like a very typical English family in as much as I say a typical one that an American might regard as typical. It was a country house with gardeners and nice staff and it looked rather grand and I was sent away at the age of seven to a prep school, which in England is from seven to thirteen is prep school, sent away to boarding school two hundred miles from home and that sort of again was very traditional English.

 

2 Jul, 1957

Bret Hart born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Hart is born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is the eighth child of professional wrestling legend Stu Hart. After pursuing amateur wrestling in high school and at Mount Royal College, he decided to follow in his family’s footsteps and become a professional wrestler. He trains with his father and brothers at the Hart Family Dungeon.

4 Apr, 1957

Guzman born in La Tuna Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico

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Joaquin Guzman Loera is born in La Tuna Badiraguato, Sinaoloa, Mexico as the fourth child to Emilio Guzman and Consuelo Loera. His older siblings are Arturo, Ovidio and Miguel. Guzman and Loera will later give birth to Aurelio, Armido, and Bernarda. His father is involved in the drug trade, growing and selling marijuana and opium. He will suffer abuse from his father who will eventually kick him out of the house. He is poorly educated and ultimately follows his father into the drug trade, but operating independently from his father.

9 Jul, 1956

Tom Hanks born in Concord, California

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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is born in Concord, California to Amost Mefford Hanks, a cook, and Janet Marylyn Frager, a hospital worker.

I was a geek, a spaz. I was horribly, painfully, terribly shy. At the same time, I was the guy who’d yell out funny captions during film strips.

5 Apr, 1956

Dallas Page born in Point Pleasant, NJ

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Page (Page Joseph Falkinburg Jr.) is born in Point Pleasant, NJ. As a child he overcomes ADD, illiteracy and dyslexia.

I was a kid growing up dealing with ADD and Dyslexia. I’m fifty-eight years young. I grew up in a time when people didn’t know what ADD and Dyslexia was.

4 Nov, 1955

Yitzhak Rabin assassinated at 73

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Rabin is shot by Amir after a peace rally held in Kings Square in Tel Aviv. Rabin is in the process of retrieving his care when he was shot in the back and the arm. A third shot slightly wounds a security guard. The Prime Minister later dies on the operating table at Ichilov Hospital, in Tel Aviv, from blood loss and a punctured lung within 40 minutes. Announcement:

The government of Israel announces in consternation, in great sadness, and in deep sorrow, the death of prime minister and minister of defense Yitzhak Rabin, who was murdered by an assassin, tonight in Tel Aviv. The government shall convene in one hour for a mourning session in Tel Aviv. Blessed be his memory.