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1917
Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 arrives in London to sit as a member of the British [Imperial] War Cabinet. Here he is with Winston Churchill, then first Lord of the Admiralty.
Lorne Greene 1915-1987
broadcaster, actor, born on this day at Ottawa Ontario in 1915; died at Santa Monica California Sept 11, 1987 after an operation for a perforated ulcer. Greene started his radio career in the 1930s at radio station CBO in Ottawa. During World War II was chief news broadcaster on the CBC from 1939-42, and his sonorous voice earned him the nickname, The Voice of Doom. After starring in a few Hollywood movies - The Silver Chalice (1954), Peyton Place (1957), and The Buccaneer (1958) - he landed the role of patriarch Ben Cartwright in the long-running Western TV series Bonanza (1959-73). Greene even had a Top 100 hit in 1964, when his non-song Ringo hit Number One in the US. He worked on CTV's Lorne Greene's New Wilderness for five years, then starred in two short-lived TV series, Battlestar Galactica and Code Red. Greene
Victoria BC - Sue Rodriguez takes her own life at age 43 with the help of an anonymous doctor, after a long fight with Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Israel/Jordan - Yasser Arafat takes office as the first Palestinian President.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder
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