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A German architect who founded the Bauhaus School.
An Italian-American film director, whose films include the Oscar award-winning It Happened One Night and You Can't Take It with You.
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Abraham Lincoln, a former Illinois state legislator, receives the Republican presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that racial segregation is legal as long as "separate but equal" facilities are provided for whites and blacks.
Mount Saint Helens volcano in Washington state erupts, causing an outbreak of fires, mudslides and floods; 57 people die in the largest eruption in U.S. history.
An American motion-picture director and producer, was born on 18th May 1897, in Italy. He joined Hollywood as a writer. He worked for the Mack Sennett studios. He also worked for Harry Langdon a comedian as a director and scriptwriter. As a director of comedies, he achieved a great success and received Academy Awards for best director. His most notable works include; You Can't Take It with You, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and It Happened One Night and In 1998 the American Film Institute (AFI) named Mr. Smith one of the top 100 films of the previous century. Capra's Meet John Doe, another story of a simple man thrust into the public eye, was released in 1941. For most of World War II (1939-1945) Capra served in the U.S. armed forces as a producer of military documentaries.
He died on September 3, 1991, La Quinta, California, United States.
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