American actor

David Schwimmer

David Lawrence Schwimmer is an American actor, director, comedian and producer. He gained worldwide recognition for portraying Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends (1994–2004), for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1995. While on Friends, his first leading film role was in The Pallbearer (1996), followed by roles in Kissing a Fool, Six Days, Seven Nights, Apt Pupil and Picking Up the Pieces (2000). Schwimmer was also in the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) as Herbert Sobel.

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1966

November 2

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619 A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
1410 The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
1675 Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
1707 Four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. In response, the first Longitude Act is enacted in 1714.

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The world in 1966

When David arrived

april 21 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
april 22 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.
april 23 Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people.
april 26 The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

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Arun Shourie 1941– Indian journalist, economist, and politician, Indian Minister of Communications Burt Lancaster 1913–1994 American actor (died 1994) Daniel Boone 1734–1820 American hunter and explorer (died 1820) David Eden Lane 1938– American white supremacist (died 2007) Edward V of England (died 1483) 1470– James Dunn 1901– American actor (died 1967) Johnny Vander Meer 1914–1997 American baseball player and manager (died 1997) Jordan Love 1998– American football player Shah Rukh Khan 1965– Indian film actor, producer and television host

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Jimmy Wales 1966– American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia Allan Donald 1966– South African cricketer and coach Andrew Adamson 1966– New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter Andrew Wood 1966–1990 American singer-songwriter (died 1990) Ben Folds 1966– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Bill Ranford 1966– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Calvin Borel 1966– American jockey Charles Hazlewood 1966– English conductor Cynthia Nixon 1966– American actress

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