Lori Haas never thought the journey to find the baby boy she gave up in a closed adoption 20 years ago would end on Facebook.
The closed adoption meant all the relevant documents were sealed, and Haas spent a decade waiting to get her son’s name through an active registry, where the names of birth parents [...]

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John Loudon McAdam
9/21/1756 - 11/26/1836
Scottish inventor of macadamized road construction
Charles Nicolle
9/21/1866 - 2/28/1936
French Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist (1928)
H. G. Wells
9/21/1866 - 8/13/1946
English novelist, historian and science fiction writer
Gustav Holst
9/21/1874 - 5/25/1934
English composer and teacher
Sir Allen Lane
9/21/1902 - 7/7/1970
English publisher; pioneered paperback publishing
Westbrook Van Voorhis
9/21/1904 - 7/14/1968
American radio announcer
Hans Hartung
9/21/1904 - 12/7/1989
German-born French painter
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On Sept. 21, 1938, a hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives. (Go to article.)
1792 The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.
1897 The New York Sun ran an editorial that answered a question from 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon: “Is there a Santa Claus?”
1931 Britain went off [...]