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Provided by the compucert veloce \ve-LAW-che\, adjective:
- Played at a fast tempo.
baxolicious
- The superlative of donovanesque.
Holiday
- Devil's Night: The name Devil's Night or Mischief Night is used in the eastern U.S. and Canada, although the acts are generally less destructive and violent than those committed in Detroit.
- Act of Supremacy: the English parliament passed a law making King Henry VIII head of the English church (1534)
- War of the Worlds: Orson Welles' radio broadcast purported to deliver news of a fictional Martian invasion; outrage and panic ensued (1930)
- Tsar Bomba: the largest and most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested was detonated by the Soviet Union over the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya (1961)
- the rumble in the jungle: Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman for the world heavyweight title (1974)
- Quebec: voters opted to stay part of Canada by a hair's-breadth majority of 50.6% to 49.4% (1995)
Birthdays
- John Adams (U.S.) 1735
- Richard Sheridan 1751
- Alfred Sisley 1839
- Ezra Pound 1885
- Charles Atlas 1893
- Ruth Gordon 1896
- Sue Carol 1907
- Gordon Parks 1912
- Fred Friendly 1915
- Joe Adcock 1927
- Louis Malle 1932
- Hamilton Camp 1934
- Dick Vermeil 1936
- Dick Gautier 1937
- Claude Lelouch 1937
- Eddie Holland 1939
- Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) 1939
- Ed Lauter 1940
- Otis Williams (The Temptations) 1941
- Henry Winkler 1945
- Timothy B. Schmidt (Poco, The Eagles) 1947
- Harry Hamlin 1951
- Charles Martin Smith 1953
- T. Graham Brown 1954
Shanna Reed 1955- Kevin Pollak 1958
- Joey Belladonna 1960 (Anthrax)
- Diego Armando Maradona 1960
- Ty Detmer 1967
- Gavin Rossdale (Bush) 1967
- Nia Long 1970
- T3h Bax0jayz! (Bobby the Blue) 1971 - accountant, drummer, blogger, supreme dictator of the universe, will become a saint.
- Kassidy Osborn (SHeDAISY) 1976Fiona Dourif 1981 (Chucky films and TV)
- Christopher Backus 1981
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