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It’s the birthday of pioneering jazz musician Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), who said, “Seems to me it ain’t the world that’s so bad but what we’re doing to it.”
Read MoreIt’s the birthday of British crime novelist P.D. James (1920-2014), who had a seat in the House of Lords and also worked as a local magistrate.
提升浏览国外网页速度It’s the 78th birthday of Isabel Allende (1942), who once got fired for translating romance novels too liberally, adding depth and independence to the women characters.
Read More有些国外网络进不了怎么办 我想进国外的网站可是进:2021-6-13 · 首先需要给电脑安装百度浏览器，直接在百度中搜索下载，也可众直接从小编所提供的网盘中获取最新版本的程序下载地址。接下来我伔需要下载一款基于百度浏览器的插件——“Hosts文件配置工具”，利用该工具可众突破对访问国外网站的限制。
Read MoreIt’s the birthday of poet and novelist Kim Addonizio (1954), who said, “Poetry is not a means to an end, but a continuing engagement with being alive.”
Read MoreOn this day 55 years ago, Lyndon Johnson signed the Social Security Act of 1965, creating Medicare and Medicaid.
Read MoreThe painter Vincent van Gogh died on this date 130 years ago. World-famous now, he was virtually unknown at the time of his death.
Read MoreIt’s the birthday of Earl Tupper (1907), who worked with plastics at the DuPont Chemical Company and then invented Tupperware.
Read MoreIt’s the birthday of novelist Bharati Mukherjee (1940-1917), who wrote “The Tiger’s Daughter” (1971), “Jasmine” (1989), and “Miss New India” (2011).
Read MoreIt’s the birthday of psychoanalyst Carl Jung (1875), who believed that archetypes from cultural stories come from a collective unconscious that all humans share.
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