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1970 - Nixon signs laws banning cigarette ads on TV and radio 1935 - First metal radio tube 1864 - First travel insurance policy sold | |
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2005 - Pope John Paul II Dies 1979 - Anthrax poisoning kills 62 in Russia 1902 - First movie theater opens | |
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1996 - Unabomber arrested 1885 - Daimler's engine patent is granted 1860 - Pony Express debuts | |
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1996 - Jaguar introduces convertible 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated 1949 - NATO is established 1841 - President Harrison dies after one th in office | |
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1976 - Howard Hughes dies 1955 - Winston Churchill resigns 1792 - Washington exercises first presidential veto | |
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1941 - Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece 1917 - America enters World War I 1841 - Tyler is inaugurated as 10th president 1830 - Mor Church established | |
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1963 - Tito is made president for life 1945 - Japanese battleship Yamatois k by Allied forces 1939 - Italy invades Albania | |
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1986 - Clint Eastwood elected mayor 1945 - Defiant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged 1899 - The first woman is executed in the electric chair 563 BC - Buddhists celebrate birth of Gautama Buddha | |
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1959 - First astronauts introduced 1942 - U.S. surrenders in Bataan 1940 - Germany invades Norway and Denmark | |
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1972 - Fiat executive Oberdan Sallustro is executed by Argentine Communist guerrillas 1963 - Atomic submarine sinks in Atlantic 1941 - Croatia declares independence | |
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1970 - Apollo 13 is launched to moon 1919 - International Labor Organization is founded 1814 - Napoleon exiles to Elba | |
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1961 - Cosaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space 1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies 1861 - The Civil War begins 1633 - Galileo is convicted of heresy | |
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1997 - Tiger Woods wins first major 1970 - Apollo 13's oxygen tank is exploded 1964 - Sydney Poitier becomes the first Acan American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor | |
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1988 - Soviets troops withdraw from Afghanistan 1956 - First video camera for sound and pictures is produced 1865 - Lincoln creates Secret Service 1865 - Lincoln is shot | |
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1959 - Castro visits the United States 1959 - Rand McNally releases first road atlas 1912 - Titanic sinks 1865 - President Lincoln dies | |
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1917 - Lenin returns to Russia from exile 1787 - First American playwright produced 1897 - Frederick William Winterbotham, one of Britain's top code breakers, is born | |
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1975 - Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge 1970 - Apollo 13 returns to Earth 1964 - Ford introduces Mustang 1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion begins 1815 - Heavy eruptions of the Tambora volcano in Indonesia kills 80,000 1790 - Benjamin Franklin dies | |
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1989 - Chinese students protest against government 1983 - Suicide bomber destroys U.S. embassy in Beirut 1906 - The Great San Francisco Earthquake kills 100's | |
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1995 - Truck bomb explodes in Oklahoma City kills 168 people 1993 - Branch Davidian compound burns 1775 - The American Revolution begins | |
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1999 - Columbine High School massacre 1978 - Korean Air Lines jet forced down over Soviet Union 1777 - New York adopts state constitution | |
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1992 - Executions resume in California 1989 - Chinese students begin protests at Tiananmen Square 1975 - S. Vietnam President Thieu flees Saigon as Xuan Loc falls 1956 - Elvis Presley's first No. 1 hit 1895 - First projected movie in the U.S. 763 BC - Rome is founded | |
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1994 - Former President Richard Nixon dies 1970 - First Earth Day is celebrated 1945 - Hitler admits defeat 1915 - Germans introduce poison gas | |
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1975 - Ford says that war is finished for America 1564 - William Shakespeare born | |
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1936 - First unscheduled television event 1800 - Library of Congress established | |
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1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope is placed into a low orbit around Earth 1862 - Fall of New Orleans 1859 - Ground broken for Suez Canal | |
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1986 - Lucille Ball dies 1986 - Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl 1984 - Reagan visits China 1954 - Geneva Conference begins | |
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1994 - South Aca holds first multiracial elections 1978 - Afghanistan President Sardar Mohammed Daoud is overthrown and murdered 1941 - German forces enter Athens 4977 BC - Universe is created, according to Kepler | |
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1969 - De Gaulle resigns as leader of France 1945 - Benito Mussolini executed | |
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1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun marry 1945 - Americans liberate the concentration camp at Dachau 1862 - Union captures New Orleans | |
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1975 - South Vietnam surrenders 1948 - Land Rover is introduced 1945 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker 1927 - The first federal prison for women opens 1925 - Dodge is produced and sold 1789 - George Washington gives first presidential inaugural address | |
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