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Diane Keaton as Annie Hall in the
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Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Black Elk (1863; died August 19, 1950) Native American elder and writer;
Black Elk Speaks (with John Neihardt)
Woody Allen (1935) American filmmaker;
Annie Hall;
Interiors;
Manhattan;
The Purple Rose of Cairo;
Hannah and Her Sisters;
Bullets over Broadway;
Mighty Aphrodite;
Stardust Memories;
Match Point; numerous Academy Awards
Died on this day:
Takizawa Bakin (1848; born July 4, 1767) Japanese author;
Nanso Satomi Hakkenden (
The Chronicles of the Eight Dog Heroes of the Satomi Clan of Nanso);
Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki (
Strange Tales of the Crescent Moon)
G. H. Hardy (1947; born February 7, 1877) English mathematician;
A Mathematician's Apology;
A Course of Pure Mathematics
J. B. S. Haldane (1964; born November 5, 1892) British-born Indian scientist;
Daedalus;
or, Science and the Future;
My Friend Mr. Leakey
James Baldwin (1987; born August 2, 1924) American novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet;
Go Tell It on the Mountain;
Notes of a Native Son;
The Fire Next Time;
Blues for Mister Charlie;
Just Above My Head
Bonus Classic:
The Mabinogion (12th-13th centuries) Welsh story collection, including Welsh and other Celtic traditions, especially stories about King Arthur's court
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