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"The main danger to stability is terror…"
January 4th, 2006
Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffers a significant stroke and [-----1-----] a coma. It happens just months after Sharon ends Israel's 38 year occupation of the Gaza Strip and both his own hardline Likud party. Sharon's official powers are transferred to his deputy Ehud Olmert, who later [-----2-----] Prime Minister.
1809
Louis Braille, the inventor of a reading system for the blind which [-----3-----] this day, is born in a town near Paris.
1999
"The one thing you'll get from Governor Jesse Ventura, you may not always wanna hear it. But you will get honesty. "
Former pro-wrestler Jesse, "The Body" Ventura [-----4-----] as the governor of Minnesota.
And 1965
"Memory, turn your face to the moonlight. Let…"
Poet, T.S. Eliot, whose work [-----5-----] most of the words for the musical "Cats" years later, dies in London at age 76.
Today in History. January 4th. Sophia Manos, the Associated Press.
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