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1992
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1980
Terry Fox 1958-1981 dips his artificial leg into the Atlantic in St. John’s Newfoundland to start his cross-country ‘Marathon of Hope’, backed by the Canadian Cancer Society, to raise money for cancer research.
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1976
Anne Rice’s debut novel “Interview with a Vampire” is published by Knopf.
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1966
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1961
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1960
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1954
Bill Haley and the Comets record “Rock Around Clock”.
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1898
1892
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1872
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1861
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1606
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