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October 14

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on October 14. From 1900 until now. October 14 is under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Usher (entertainer) (1978), Lourdes Ciccone-Leon (1996) and Alexandra Lamy (1971). Several movies were released around October 14 over the years, such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in 1939 directed by Frank Capra and My Fair Lady in 1964 directed by George Cukor.
But much more happened on October 14 over the years: find out below

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Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released around October 14 over the years?

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Release year: 1939

Directed by: Frank Capra

Starring: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold

Country: United States of America

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My Fair Lady

Release year: 1964

Directed by: George Cukor

Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Country: United States of America

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The Bridge

Release year: 1959

Directed by: Bernhard Wicki

Starring: Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht

Country: United States of America

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Vincent, François, Paul and the Others

Release year: 1974

Directed by: Claude Sautet

Starring: Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani, Gérard Depardieu

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Watchmen

Release year: 2019

Directed by: Zack Snyder

Starring: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman

Country: United States of America

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of October 14?

Holidays

Also see October 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
French Republican Calendar - Navet (Turnip) Day, twenty-third day in the Month of VendTmiaire
Teachers' Day, or National Education Day in Poland
World Standards Day (from ISO, IEC, ITU)
RC Saints - Pope Callistus I
World Organ Donation Day
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Events

2018 Óscar Romero, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador assassinated while celebrating Mass in 1980, is canonized by Pope Francis. Six other canonizations, including that of Pope Paul VI, are also announced. (BBC)
2017 14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings: At least 276 people are killed when a lorry filled with explosives detonates outside a hotel in the capital Mogadishu, becoming the worst terrorist attack in Somalia's history. (NBC News)
2016 Sinai insurgency: A suspected ISIL attack on a security checkpoint in North Sinai Governorate, Egypt, leaves at least 12 Egyptian military personnel and 15 terrorists dead. (Reuters), (CNN)
2015 The President of Indonesia Joko Widodo calls for calm in the province of Aceh after a person was killed and a church burned down yesterday. (Channel News Asia)
2014 Turkish jets bomb Kurdish PKK positions in south-east Turkey. (BBC)
2013 Ethiopian officials report that a plot by a group of Somali nationals to attack Sunday's 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match in Addis Ababa failed when their explosives detonated inside their home, killing two of the would-be suicide bombers. (Reuters UK)
2012 Gunmen open fire at a mosque in the village of Dogo Dawa in the Nigerian state of Kaduna, killing at least 20 people. (BBC)
2011 U.S. President Barack Obama authorizes the deployment of up to 100 American soldiers to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to assist in operations against the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency. (''Wall Street Journal'')
2010 Eight ISAF NATO soldiers are killed in multiple attacks in Afghanistan, including four in roadside bombings. (AP)
2009 Negotiators in Honduras reach a deal to restore President Manuel Zelaya to office to end the political crisis in the country. (CBC) (AFP) (Xinhua)
2008 U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announces plans to take equity stakes totaling up to $250 billion in financial institutions.
2007 Al-habileen/lahij: Four citizens are killed on the 44th anniversary of the revolution against British colonial rule in South Yemen.
2006 College football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.
2005 Zimbabwean state-owned media announces that the Zimbabwean government briefly detained the United States ambassador, on Monday, October 10. The United States considers the matter closed following a formal apology. (Wash. Times)
2004 The New York Yankees defeat the Boston Red Sox 19–8 in Game 3 of Major League Baseball's American League Championship Series. The game, which pushes the Yankees to a 3 games to 0 series lead, sets a record for longest 9 inning baseball game.
2003 Religion: RTÉ's ''Prime Time'' current affairs programme reports that Cahal Daly, Bishop of Down and Conor, refused to accept allegations passed on to him by students of improper sexual conduct by Monsignor Micheal Ledwith, then head of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland's major seminary. According to the programme Daly became aggressive, telling students ampquotgo back and say your prayersampquot. The TV programme confirms that Daly, and his predecessor, Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich, were
2002 The San Francisco Giants defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, four games to one, to win the National League Championship Series and move on the World Series. They will play the Anaheim Angels, who defeated the Minnesota Twins four games to one to win the American League Championship Series.
1998 New York Islanders beat Tampa Bay, 7-1, to end 11 game winless streak
1997 Florida Marlins beat Atlanta Braves 4 games to 1 in NLCS
1996 Braves blow out St. Louis, 14-0 in an NLCS game
1995 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to sweep in NL playoff (beat Reds)
1994 Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres
1993 Stack's auctions the Reed Hawn Collection; the Mickley specimen of the Class I US 1804 Draped Bust dollar sells for $475,000. The Reed Hawn US 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent coin sells for $875,000.
1992 Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates in 7 games for NL pennant
1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize
1990 Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Trophee Urban World Golf Championship
1989 Dave Stewart is 1st since 1976 to start consecutive World Series openers
1988 Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce and annulment
1987 St. Louis Cardinals beat SF Giants, 4 games to 3 in NLCS
1986 IOC decides to stagger Winter and Summer Olympic schedule
1985 19th Country Music Association Award: Ricky Skaggs wins
1984 Quilters closes at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC after 24 performances
1983 US Marine peacekeeper Sargeant Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut, Lebanon.
1982 President Reagan proclaims war against drugs
1981 Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game
1980 Phils rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals, 7-6 to take WS opener
1979 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy
1978 New York Yank Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy by getting in the way of a throw to 1st and deflects the ball away
1977 Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro
1976 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman
1975 President Gerald Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside.
1974 8th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Rich
1973 Egyptian tanks move further into Israel
1972 Oakland A Gene Tenace is 1st to homer in 1st 2 World Series at bats
1971 John andYoko appear on Dick Cavett Show
1970 4th Country Music Association Award: Merle Haggard wins
1969 Palme government forms in Sweden
1968 Beatles White Album completed
1967 The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California.
1966 Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer
1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
1964 Philips begins experimenting with color TV
1963 Algeria and Morocco border conflict
1962 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Thunderbird Tourney Golf Tournament
1961 How to Succeed in Business opens at 46th St. NYC for 1415 performances
1960 Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
1959 WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community.
1957 Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada.
1956 Patty Berg wins LPGA Arkansas Golf Open
1955 ODECA secretariat inaugurated.
1954 Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53
1953 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service
1952 Buttrio Square opens at New Century Theater NYC for 7 performances
1951 Organization of Central American States forms
1949 Ezzard Charles TKOs Pat Valentino in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1948 Batavia lt-Governor-General of Mook dismissed
1947 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower
1946 Netherlands and Indonesia sign cease fire.
1945 Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Chicago Bears.
1944 British troops march into Athens.
1943 400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland
1942 Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution
1941 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk and Riga
1940 Balham subway station disaster, in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
1939 BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed
1938 Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities
1935 In the Canadian federal election, the Liberal Party of William Lyon Mackenzie King wins a majority government, defeating the Conservative Party of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett.
1934 Lux Radio Theatre premieres
1933 Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations
1931 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University
1930 Ethel Mermans debuts on Broadway in Girl Crazy
1929 Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago Cubs, four games to one in 26th World Series. Philadelphia Athletics set World Series record of ten runs in an inning.
1926 Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark
1925 An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
1923 Fourth tropical storm of the year, formed just north of Panama.
1922 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue, New York City
1920 Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
1916 Perm State University is founded in Russia.
1914 German troops occupy Bruges.
1913 Explosion in coal mine at Cardiff kills 439
1912 Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee.
1910 The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C..
1909 Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series
1908 Baseball Writers Association of America, forms
1906 All Chicago World Series, 1st AL victory, White Sox win 4 games to 2 Cubs losers share of $439.50 is lowest for World Series
1905 New York Giants beats Philadelphia Athletics, four games to one in second World Series, Giant's Christy Mathewson's third straight world series shutout.
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Famous Birthday

Usher (entertainer)
Lourdes Ciccone-Leon
Alexandra Lamy: French actress, married in 2009 Jean...
Roger Moore: British actor, most noted for his role...
Bianca Beauchamp: Canadian fetish and adult model.
Khagendra Thapa Magar
Farah Pahlavi: Iranian wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Stacy Keibler: American actress and professional...
Mia Wasikowska: Australian actress.
Dan Ar Wern
Gérald de Palmas
Tania Young
Cliff Richard: British pop singer, musician, performer,...
Hannah Arendt: German-American philosopher , political...
Justin Hayward: England, United Kingdom -- Vocalist...
Ralph Lauren: American fashion designer.
Natalie Maines: American singer-songwriter and activist...
Joseph Désiré Mobutu
Carolina Tejera
Ben Whishaw
Steve Coogan: English actor.
Caroline Casey: American astrologer, a cultural...
Shelley Ackerman: American professional astrologer.
Daniela Peštová: Czech model and actress.
Dyanne Thorne: American actress.
Bruno Masure
Maurice Favières: French radio broadcaster and TV...
Lori Petty: American actress director and...
Jacqueline Porel: France Actor.
Xavier de Fontenay
Alda d'Eusanio
Béatrice Pavy
Savanna Samson: American porn actress.
Dan McCafferty: Scottish singer for the band Nazareth, a...
Skyler Shaye: American actress.
Cansu Dere
John Wooden: Basketball coach (UCLA-10 national...
Joël Giraud
Valentin Yudashkin
Frédéric Lefebvre: French politician who was Secretary of...
Jacques Birr
Alain Roche: French association football defender,...
Max Thieriot: American actor.
Udo Kier: Germany -- Actress (Warhol Dracula,...
Alain Carrier: France Painter.
Agata Gotova
Lance Rentzel: American football halfback with the Los...
Bérengère Poletti
Craig Venter: American biologist geneticist and...
Floyd Landis
Bernd Rosemeyer: German race car driver, killed in a...
Harry Anderson: American actor and screenwriter.
Mary Greer: American writer, a teacher and author on...
Pierre Fabre (actor)
La Monte Young
Frédéric Guesdon: French road bicycle racer, who competed...
François Bozizé: Gabonese general and politician...
Gilles Delamare
Jim Jackson: American basketball player, a guard with...
Robert Chapatte
Chen Chang
Isaac Mizrahi: American celebrity and fashion designer...
Trevor Goddard: English-American actor (d. 2003).
Kitty Menendez: American former beauty queen married to...
Audrey Marnay
Bernie Siegel: American physician, accomplished...
David Strickland: American actor (d. 1999).
John Dean: American government official, an Aide to...
Marcel Pressac
Steven Bradbury
Kantaro (astrologer)
Peter Stringfellow
Dwayne Schintzius: American basketball player and coach (d....
Sylver Gregory
Christian Pineau: French politician in the Fourth...
Marc Foucan: French athlete who specialises in the...
Karyn White: American singer-songwriter.
Carla Camurati
Henry Farnam
C Everett Koop: 13th United States Surgeon General.
Stephen A Smith: American sports journalist.
DeJuan Wheat: NBA guard (Minn Timberwolves).
Lotta Backlund
Harvey Kirck: Canadian TV personality and co-host,...
Joseph Kaiser
Willy Alberti: Dutch folk singer.
Paul Hunter: English professional snooker player...
Jacques de Barrin
MacKenzie Mauzy: American actress to date known mostly...
Luc Moullet: French film critic and filmmaker, and a...
Carlos Mármol
Douglas Wright: New Zealander dancer and choreographer,...
P J Brown: NBA center / forward (New Jersey Nets,...
Ruth Bernhard: American photographer (Born 1905).
Cardiff (United Kingdom)
Donald Henry Ross
Alexandre Millon
Bas Muijs
Didier Racaud
John Sumner (actor born 1951)
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Famous Deaths

Errol Flynn: Australian-American actor.
Bing Crosby: American singer who was a world famed...
Leonard Bernstein: American musician, a pianist, conductor...
Simon MacCorkindale: British actor, producer and screenwriter...
Raymond Pellegrin: French actor (Born 1925).
Freddy Fender: American singer and guitarist (Texas...
Edith Pargeter: Author (Brother Cadfael), dies of a...
Patrick Dalzel-Job: English soldier and inspiration for...
Norbert Schultze: German composer and songwriter (Born...
Emil Gilels: Soviet pianist.
Cleveland Amory: American writer, author of "Who Killed...
Harold Robbins: American author of popular novels.
Collin Wilcox: American writer, a mystery novelist...
Martyn Sanderson: New Zealand actor (Born 1938).
[Francis XA] Keenan Wynn: US actor (Dr Strangelove), dies at 70.
Rodolfo Halffter: Composer, dies at 86.
Mary Morris: Actress (Agitator, Double Door).
Michael Carmine: Actor (Batteries Not Included), dies at...
Guy Malary: Haitian lawyer / Minister of Justice,...
Mustafa Abada: Algerian TV director, murdered.
Walter Brown Newman: US screenwriter (Cat Ballou), dies at...
Gioconda de Vito: Violinist, dies at 87.
Helen Vlachos: Journalist, dies at 83.
Laura La Plante: Screen actress (Show Boat, Scandal),...
William John Raff Hooper: Cartoonist, dies at 80.
John Marshall Harlan: American Supreme Court Justice (Born...
Douglas Mawson: Australian Antarctic explorer (Born...
Dame Edith Evans: English actress (Born 1888).
Harriet Shaw Weaver: English political activist (Born 1876).
Edmund A Chester: American broadcaster and journalist...
Jared Anderson: American bassist (Born 1975).
Jody Dobrowski: English murder victim (Born 1981).
Maurice Grosse: British paranormal investigator (Born...
Nancy Lynn: American aviator (Born 1956).
Gerry Studds: American politician (Born 1937).
Captain Lou Albano: American professional wrestler and...
Robert Furman: American civil engineer and WWII...
Randall Jarrell: American poet and essayist (Born 1914).
Paul Ramadier: French politician of the Third and...
Erwin Rommel: German military, a Nazi field Marshall...
Marcel Ayme: French novelist and playwright (Born...
Edith Evans: Actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk...
Albert de Vriendt: Flemish historical Painter / etcher.
Art Coulter: Canadian-American ice hockey player (d....
Zhang Xueliang: Chinese warlord, instigator of the Xi'an...
Richard Cooey: American convicted murderer and rapist...
Willard Price: Canadian-American journalist and author...
Henri Berger: German composer and royal bandmaster...
Big Moe: American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (d....
Abram Ioffe: Russian physicist and academic (d....
Haguroyama Masaji: Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th...
Benoit Mandelbrot: Polish-American mathematician and...
Judy Crichton: American television documentary producer...
Vlassis Bonatsos: Greek singer, actor and entertainer...
Ahmed Hamdi: Egyptian soldier, who fought in Yom...
Sandor Erkel: Composer, dies at 54.
Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen: Composer, dies at 76.
Wilhelm von Siemens: German industrial / Son of Werner.
George Elbridge Whiting: Composer, dies at 83.
Marcellus Emants: Writer / Poet (Refrained from...
Sam[uel] van Houten: Lib minister (Child labor laws).
Carl Natanael Berg: Composer, dies at 78.
Jean Poveigh: Composer, dies at 82.
Abram F Joffe: Russian physicist (crystal).
Arcady Dubensky: Composer, dies at 75.
Joseph Kaminski: Composer, dies at 68.
Ingemar Liljefors: Composer, dies at 74.
Paul Fix: Actor (Rifleman), dies at 82 of kidney...
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Music charts

Which were the top hits in that special week of October 14 over the years?

Top #1 songs in the USA

2017 Bodak Yellow (Money Moves) - Cardi B
2016 Closer - The Chainsmokers Featuring Halsey
2015 The Weeknd - The Hills
2014 Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass
2013 Lorde - Royals
2012 One More Night - Maroon 5
2011 Someone Like You - Adele
2010 Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are
2009 The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
2008 T.I. - Whatever You Like
2007 Crank That (Soulja Boy) - Soulja Boy Tell'em
2006 Justin Timberlake - SexyBack
2005 Kanye West - Gold Digger
2004 Ciara - Goodies
2003 Beyonce - Baby Boy
2002 Kelly Clarkson - A Moment Like This
2001 Alicia Keys - Fallin'
2000 Christina Aguilera - Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)
1999 Mariah Carey - Heartbreaker
1998 Monica - The First Night
1997 Elton John - Something About The Way You Look Tonight
1997 Elton John - Candle In The Wind 1997
1996 Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)
1995 Mariah Carey - Fantasy
1994 Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You
1993 Mariah Carey - Dreamlover
1992 Boyz II Men - End Of The Road
1991 Mariah Carey - Emotions
1990 George Michael - Praying For Time
1989 Janet Jackson - Miss You Much
1988 Red Red Wine '88 - UB40
1987 Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
1986 Janet Jackson - When I Think Of You
1985 Ready For The World - Oh Sheila
1984 Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You
1983 Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
1982 John Cougar - Jack & Diane
1981 Diana Ross - Endless Love
1980 Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
1979 Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
1978 Exile - Kiss You All Over
1977 Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life
1976 Walter Murphy - A Fifth Of Beethoven
1975 Neil Sedaka - Bad Blood
1974 Olivia Newton-John - I Honestly Love You
1973 Cher - Half-Breed
1972 Michael Jackson - Ben
1971 Rod Stewart - Maggie May
1970 Neil Diamond - Cracklin' Rosie
1969 The Archies - Sugar, Sugar
1968 The Beatles - Hey Jude
1967 The Box Tops - The Letter
1966 Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
1965 The Beatles - Yesterday
1964 Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
1963 Jimmy Gilmer - Sugar Shack
1962 The 4 Seasons - Sherry
1961 Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack
1960 Larry Verne - Mr. Custer
1959 Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
1958 Tommy Edwards - It's All In The Game
1957 Jimmie Rodgers - Honeycomb
1955 The Yellow Rose Of Texas - Mitch Miller Orchestra & Chorus
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Top #1 Rock songs

2017 Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still
2016 Heathens - twenty one pilots
2015 Shut Up And Dance - WALK THE MOON
2014 A Sky Full Of Stars - Coldplay
2013 Lorde - Royals
2012 I Will Wait - Mumford & Sons
2011 Walk - Foo Fighters
2010 Stone Sour - Say You'll Haunt Me
2009 Alice In Chains - Check My Brain

Books

Which were the most popular books released around October 14 over the years?

Look Younger, Live Longer

Year: 1950

By: Gayelord Hauser

Every man and woman, young or old, will find in this book sane and sound advice that should make the mature years of life a healthier and happier time.

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Nightmares & Dreamscapes

Year: 1993

By: Stephen King

The classic short story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King!A wrong turn on a lonely road lands a wayward couple in Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon, where there’s no escaping the free nightly concert….A

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Unlimited Access

Year: 1996

By: Gary Aldrich

Gary Aldrich was an FBI agent closing out his career with a stint at the White House. What should have been a peaceful exit left him shaken.

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A Breath Of Snow And Ashes

Year: 2005

By: Diana Gabaldon

Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our

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The Roosevelts

Year: 2014

By: Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns

New York Times Bestseller A vivid and personal portrait of America’s greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation, which expands on the hugely acclaimed seven-part PBS documentary series, bringing

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Movies

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

My Fair Lady

The Bridge

Vincent, François, Paul and the Others

Watchmen

Historical Events

Music charts

Books

Look Younger, Live Longer

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

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A Breath Of Snow And Ashes

The Roosevelts