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Today's Milestones (October 28)

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🎂 Birthday

Joaquin Phoenix

Academy Award-Winning Actor, Producer & Humanitarian Activist • United States

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Frank Ocean

Grammy Award-Winning Singer, Songwriter & Cultural Icon • United States

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Edith Head

Legendary Costume Designer & 8-Time Academy Award Winner • United States

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Charlie Daniels

Country & Southern Rock Musician, Fiddler, Songwriter & Hall of Fame Legend • United States

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Memorial Anniversary

Liaquat Ali Khan

نوابزادہ لیاقت علی خان

First Prime Minister of Pakistan, Freedom Fighter & "Quaid-e-Millat"

Pakistan Leadership

Oct 1, 1895 — Oct 16, 1951

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Lionel Murphy

Lionel Keith Murphy QC

22nd Attorney-General of Australia, High Court Justice, Creator of the Family Court & Legal Aid Pioneer

Australia Politics

Aug 30, 1922 — Oct 21, 1986

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Lord Palmerston

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Two-Time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1855–1858, 1859–1865) & Dominant Architect of Victorian Foreign Policy

United Kingdom Politics

Oct 20, 1784 — Oct 18, 1865

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Louis Althusser

Louis Pierre Althusser

Influential French-Algerian Marxist Philosopher, Structuralist Theorist & Academic

Algeria / France Philosophy

Oct 16, 1918 — Oct 22, 1990

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Birthday

Luciano Berio

Visionary Italian Avant-Garde Composer, Pioneer of Electroacoustic Music & Musical Modernist

Italy Music

Oct 24, 1925 — May 27, 2003

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Lucy Stone

Pioneering American Abolitionist, Suffragist, Orator & Co-Founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association

United States Leadership

Aug 13, 1818 — Oct 18, 1893

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Birthday

Mahalia Jackson

"The Queen of Gospel", International Musical Icon, Civil Rights Pioneer & Grammy Lifetime Achievement Laureate

United States Music

Oct 26, 1911 — Jan 27, 1972

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Mahatma Gandhi

Leader of Indian Independence & Apostle of Nonviolence

India Peace

Oct 2, 1869 — Jan 30, 1948

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Birthday

Mahn Ba Khaing

မန်းဘခိုင်

Burmese Karen Political Leader, Independence Hero, Pre-Independence Minister of Industry and Labor & National Martyr

Myanmar Politics

Oct 26, 1903 — Jul 19, 1947

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Marco Simoncelli

2008 250cc World Motorcycle Champion, MotoGP Icon & MotoGP Legend Hall of Famer ("Super Sic")

Italy Sports

Jan 20, 1987 — Oct 23, 2011

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Marcus Junius Brutus

Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio

Roman Politician, Stoic Philosopher, Defender of the Republic & Leading Assassin of Julius Caesar

Ancient Rome / Italy History

Jan 1, 0085 — Oct 23, 0042

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Birthday

Margaret Thatcher

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom & Stateswoman

United Kingdom Politics

Oct 13, 1925 — Apr 8, 2013

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Marie Antoinette

Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna

Last Queen of France Before the Revolution & Archduchess of Austria

France Leadership

Nov 2, 1755 — Oct 16, 1793

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Birthday

Marie Curie

Physicist, Chemist & Pioneer in Radioactivity

Poland / France Science

Nov 7, 1867 — Jul 4, 1934

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Birthday

Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil Rights Leader, Baptist Minister & Nobel Laureate

United States Peace

Jan 15, 1929 — Apr 4, 1968

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Memorial Anniversary

Matangini Hazra

মাতঙ্গিনী হাজরা

Iconic Bengali Revolutionary, Freedom Fighter & Martyr of the Quit India Movement ("Gandhi Buri")

India History

Oct 19, 1870 — Sep 29, 1942

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