Michael Schumacher, a German car racer, was born in Hürth, Germany in 1969.
Michael Schumacher (born January 3, 1969) is a former Formula One driver who raced for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes. Schumacher has a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles (tied with Lewis Hamilton), and when he retired in 2012, he held the records for the most wins, pole positions, and podium finishes (all of which have since been broken by Hamilton), as well as the record for the most fastest laps.
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Rowan Atkinson, an English comedian and actor, was born in Consett, County Durham, England in 1955.
Shobha De, an Indian author and journalist, was born in Satara, India, in 1947.
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Diane Keaton, an American actress, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1946.
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Albert Einstein, a theoretical physicist, married Mileva Maric in 1903.
Greta Thunberg, a Swedish climate change activist, was born in Stockholm in 2003.
Mel Gibson, an American actor and director, was born in Peekskill, New York in 1956.
In New Jersey in 1838, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail display their telegraph equipment.
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Louis Braille, a French educator and developer of a reading and writing system for the blind, was born in Coupvray, France, in 1809.
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The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest structure at 829.8 m (2,722 ft), formally opens in Dubai in 2010.
Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American scientist, died in 1943 at the age of 86.
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Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, is certified dead at the age of 41 in 1939 after going missing over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
Kapil Dev, an Indian cricketer, was born in Chandigarh, Punjab, in 1959.
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