December 11th, 2002...

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TIME Magazine: Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Return of the Rings

(TIME Cover: December the 2nd, 2002)

1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
1750 - Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1799)
1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
1870 - Pierre Louÿs, French author (d. 1925)
1908 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
1917 - Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
1465 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
1475 - Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
1803 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (d. 1941)
1882 - Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921)
1911 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1913 - Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 - John Kerry, American politician
1954 - Jermaine Jackson, American musician

Jimmy Carter
1924-

for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development

USA
39th President of the United States of America

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