Born on This Day
Founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, whose invention of roll film popularized amateur photography for the masses.
Pakistani activist who survived an assassination attempt, championed girls' education and won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chilean poet, diplomat and Nobel Prize winner whose best known work is "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair."
After having his fifth wife beheaded, England's King Henry VIII marries Katherine (or Catherine) Parr, his sixth and final wife. She survives him in 1547, head still attached, and remarries later that year.
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