Born on This Day
Movie star icon who sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz."
The youngest female to win a figure skating Olympic gold medal, which she earned in 1998, at age 15.
Actress who became the first African American to win an Academy Award for the role of Mammy in "Gone With the Wind."
Juan Felipe Herrera, the son of migrant farm workers—and prize-winning author—becomes America's first Latino poet laureate. In his nomadic childhood, his mother recited poetry and taught him songs from the Mexican Revolution.
Timeline
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