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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
- Jocko Willink
5 Birthdays Today
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Katharine Hepburn
(1907 — 2003)
American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades
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Florence Nightingale
(1820 — 1910)
English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople.
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Mildred H. McAfee
(1900 — 1994)
American academic, educator, naval officer, and religious leader. She served during World War II as first director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the United States Navy
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Otto Frank
(1889 — 1980)
German businessman, and the father of Anne Frank
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George Carlin
(1937 — 2008)
American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic
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On This Day
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Marilyn Monroe 1957 Soccer Kick at Ebbets Field Stadium in Brooklyn
It happened on May 12, 1957
Featuring: Marilyn Monroe.
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The Louisiana World Exposition, also known as the 1984 World's Fair, opens
It happened on May 12, 1984
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By order of U.S. Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates, the Defense Communications Agency was established
It happened on May 12, 1960
Featuring: Thomas S. Gates Jr..
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William Wilberforce makes his first major speech on abolition in the UK House of Commons, reasoning the slave trade morally reprehensible and an issue of natural justice
It happened on May 12, 1823
Featuring: William Wilberforce.