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This Day in History

1929: On With the Show, the first talking movie that is all in color debuts at New York City's Winter Garden theater.

1934: The identical Dionne quintuplets are born in Ontario, Canada; the girls are made wards of the government and put on display at a themepark called Quintland.

1980: The first Islamic parliament, the Majlis, opens in Iran.


1987: West German Mathias Rust flies a private plane unchallenged through Soviet airspace and lands in Moscow's historic Red Square.


1991: The 17-year Marxist rule which brought famine and war to Ethiopia ends when rebel tanks storm the nation's capital, Addis Ababa.

Born on This Day

William Pitt, British prime minister (1759) Jerry West, basketball player, coach, and general manager (1938) Thomas Moore, poet (1779) Jim Thorpe, athlete (1888?) Walker Percy, essayist and novelist (1916) Ian Fleming (1908-1964), British novelist, best known as creator of the popular suspense-fiction character James Bond, British secret service agent 007.