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18 hours ago · Early life Main article: Dickens family Charles Dickens's birthplace, 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth 2 Ordnance Terrace, Chatham, Dickens's home 1817 – May 1821 Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 at 1 Mile End Terrace (now 393 Commercial Road), Landport in Portsea Island (Portsmouth), Hampshire, the second of eight children of Elizabeth Dickens (née Barrow; 1789–1863) and John ...
- Novelist
- 9 June 1870 (aged 58), Higham, Kent, England
- Charles John Huffam Dickens, 7 February 1812, Portsmouth, England
- Ellen Ternan (1857–1870, his death)
18 hours ago · In the aftermath came the premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, about the specter of child abuse in the Catholic Church (back on Broadway this season with Liev Schreiber); Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, about a narrator of child murders; and August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, about a family reckoning with the legacy of slavery.
18 hours ago · Street retired from active duty in August 1966. He and his family settled in Andover, Massachusetts, about two hours north of Boston. For the rest of his life, Street was an active member of several veterans' organizations. He was also a popular speaker at patriotic community events and at schools throughout New England.
18 hours ago · March 26, 1965 (Friday) In Birmingham, Alabama, FBI agents arrested four members of the Ku Klux Klan (Eugene Thomas, William Orville Eaton, Collie LeRoy Wilkins, Jr. and Gary Tommy Rowe, Jr.) and charged them with conspiracy to violate the civil rights in the murder of Viola Liuzzo.
18 hours ago · Louise Campbell, actress, The Star Maker, Night Club Scandal; Tom Campbell, U.S. Representative in California 1989–2001; Marvin Camras, inventor; Larry Canada, NFL running back 1978–81; Tony Canadeo, halfback for Green Bay Packers 1941–52, Pro Football Hall of Fame; Vincent Canby, film critic, New York Times
