Born on This Day
Influential American dancer and choreographer who reshaped modern dance by blending movement with intense emotions.
Spanish artist and filmmaker whose eerie clock-melting paintings made him the star of the Surrealist movement.
Actress, singer and songwriter. Star of Disney Channel's "Girl Meets World" who then topped the pop charts with hits like "Espresso."
The Massachusetts Bay Colony passes a law banning Christmas, forbidding “feasting and similar satanic practices"—with a penalty of five shillings. Back in 1621, the Plymouth Colony scrooge, er, governor had personally confiscated toys.
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