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Deborah Ann Harry American Singer-Songwriter is born.

Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister of New Zealand is born.

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Frances Reed Elliott becomes the first black woman accepted into the American Red Cross Nursing Service

Gwendolyn Bennett American artist is born