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1. This Baroque composer's most famous work is 'The Four Seasons'.
2. This life-long seaman sailed into history as the captain of the ill-fated Titanic.
3. Born in 1943, This singer-songwriter was killed in a 1973 plane crash shortly after takeoff in Natchitoches, Louisiana. His lead guitarist, Maury Muehleisen, was also among the dead.
4. This crochety old grouch, who shared his name with a former President, made headlines by refusing to leave his home on Mt. St. Helens when it erupted in 1980. Unfortunately, he did not survive.
5. In 1987, this 18 month old girl fell down a well in Texas, and it took scores of people 58 hours to get her out.
6. Reputed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution, this black man was killed by British soldiers in 1770 for throwing snowballs in what has come to be known as 'The Boston Massacre'.
7. He sure ain't no doll! He was Hitler's SS officer in charge of the Gestapo in Lyon, France from November 1942 through August 1944.
8. In a Tokyo boxing ring on February 11, 1990, he became the first man to defeat Mike Tyson, knocking him out in the 10th round to become heavyweight champion.
9. Young man, do you need a spanking? This 18 year old got more than he bargained for in Singapore in 1994 when he was sentenced to 6 lashes with a rattan cane for vandalism. Even President Clinton asked the Singapore government not to go through with it. He eventually got 4 whacks.
10. After John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in Ford's Theater, he jumped to the stage and injured his leg. This doctor splinted and bandaged the leg, earning himself a few years in jail as a co-conspirator.
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