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2002 - The US confirms a"shadow government", consisting of career excutive-branch officials, is being rotated through secret bunkers to assure continuity of its government in case of disaster. 1973 - Honda's Civic is introduced 1961 - Kennedy establishes Peace Corps 1954 - Five U.S. Congressman shot on floor of House as Pureto Rican nationalists fire from spectators' gallery; all five recover 1941 - First commercially licensed FM station 1872 - Yellowstone Park established | |
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1972 - Pioneer 10 launched to Jupiter 1949 - Automatic streetlights are introduced 1925 - First numbered highways 1836 - Texas Independence proclaimed 1807 - Congress abolishes the Acan slave trade | |
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2002 - Voters in Switzeland approved the government's proposal applying for membership in the UN. 1879 - United States Geological Survey created 1873 - Congress bans sending obscene materials 1845 - Congress overrides presidential veto for first time | |
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2002 - Ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova is elected as the president of the province of Kosovo. 1952 - Ernest Hemingway finishes "The Old Man & the Sea" 1865 - Lincoln inaugurated for a second term 1861 - Lincoln inaugurated | |
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1998 - Serbs battle ethnic Albanians 1953 - Joseph Stalin dies | |
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1983 - Kohl elected West German chancellor 1953 - Georgi Malenkov succeeds Stalin - becomes Soviet Premier 1931 - First radio newsreel debuts 1475 - Michelangelo is born | |
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1973 - Bangladesh's first democratic leader 1918 - Finland signs treaty with Germany 1916 - BMW is born | |
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1975 - S. Vietnam President Thieu orders force withdrawal 1957 - Egypt opens the Suez Canal 1796 - Supreme Court knocks down tax law | |
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1998 - U.S. and allies decide to impose modest diplomatic and economic sanctions on Yugoslavia for "unacceptable" use of force to kill ethnic Albanians 1938 - Bob Hope's film debut 1932 - China's last emperor is Japanese puppet 1925 - US National treasurer is born 1916 - Germany declares war on Portugal | |
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1970 - Army captain charged with My Lai, Vietnam, war crimes 1918 - Warner Bros. releases its first film 1906 - Mine explosion kills 1,060 in France 1902 - Edison loses movie camera suit 1876 - Speech transmitted by telephone | |
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2004 - Terrorists bomb trains in Madrid 1990 - Liania proclaims its independence 1988 - Robert C. McFarlane, former National Security Advisor, pleads guilty in Iran-Contra case 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev picked to succeed U.S.S.R leader Chernenko, who dies at 73 1918 - First cases reported in deadly influenza epidemic 1779 - Congress establishes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | |
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1952 - Mercedes introduces 300SL 1938 - Gandhi leads civil disobedience 1923 - First movie with sound recorded on film 1912 - The Girl Scouts were founded | |
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1946 - UAW takes on General Motors 1881 - Czar Alexander II assassinated | |
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1995 - Russian space station greets first American 1990 - Gorbachev elected president of the Soviet Union 1964 - Jack Ruby convicted of murder in slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald; sentenced to death by Dallas jury 1879 - Albert Einstein born | |
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1990 - Ford Explorer is introduced 1968 - Black teen-agers riot in Watts, Los Angeles; two men klilled and around 25 injured 1939 - Nazis take Czechoslovakia 1917 - Czar Nicholas II abdicates 1906 - Rolls Royce is born 1767 - President Jacson is born in South Carolina. | |
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1978 - U.S. Senate approves Panama Canal neutrality treaty 1978 - Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro kidnapped by left wing terrorists, who kill five bodyguards 1968 - My Lai massacre takes place in Vietnam 1945 - Fighting on Iwo Jima ends 1915 - FTC is founded 1802 - U.S. Military Academy established 1751 - President Madison is born in Virginia. | |
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1998 - Researchers in Finland found that vitamin E can reduce prostate cancer risk 1949 - First Porsche is introduced 1906 - Earthquakes kill more than 1,200 in Taiwan 1845 - The rubber band was invented 1776 - British evacuate Boston | |
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1970 - Lon Nol ousts Prince Sihanouk 1950 - Nationalist Chinese forces invade mainland China 1947 - William Durant, the founder of GM, died in NY 1929 - GM acquires Opel 1852 - Wells Fargo established 1850 - American Express founded 1837 - President Cleveland is born in New Jersey. | |
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2003 - War in Iraq begins 1952 - One millionth Jeep produced 1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling 1916 - First U.S. air combat mission begins | |
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1996 - Britain alarmed by deadly cow disease 1995 - Tokyo subways are attacked with sarin gas 1854 - Republican Party founded | |
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1980 - Carter tells U.S. athletes of Olympic boycott in Moscow 1971 - First use of computer animation for entertainment | |
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1945 - Arab League formed 1933 - FDR legalizes sale of beer and wine | |
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1998 - Yeltsin dismisses entire cabinet 1994 - Mexican Presidential candidate assissnated 1919 - Mussolini founds the Fascist party 1918 - Paris hit by shells from new German gun | |
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1999 - NATO bombs Yugoslavia 1989 - Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska 1954 - AMC (later bought by Chrysler) incorporated | |
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1994 - Last U.S. troops depart Somalia 1975 - King Faisal assassinated 1967 - Martin Luther King leads march against the war 1946 - Soviets announce withdrawal from Iran 1920 - Chrysler leaves GM 1918 - Belarusian Peoples’ Republic established 1901 - Mercedes debuts | |
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1979 - Israel-Egyptian peace agreement signed 1975 - Hue (Vietnam) falls to the communists 1920 - F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel published 1885 - First movie film made | |
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1998 - FDA approves Viagra, a male impotence pill 1958 - Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier 1939 - NASCAR giant is born | |
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1979 - Conservatives win British election; Margaret Thatcher becomes new Prime Minister 1979 - Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, PA.; releases radiation 1969 - Eisenhower dies 1939 - Spanish Civil War ends | |
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1993 - Five arrested, sixth sought in bombing of World Trade Center in New York 1973 - U.S. withdraws from Vietnam - Last American troops departed. 1886 - Coca Cola is invented 1790 - President Tyler is born in Virginia. | |
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1984 - President Reagan ends U.S. role in Beirut by relieving Sicth Fleet from peacekeeping force 1981 - President Reagan is wounded by gunman, with press secretary and two law-enforcement officers 1867 - U.S. buys Alaska 1946 - Academy Award radio show begins | |
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1962 - Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel for his part in Nazi extermination of sic million Jews 1959 - Dalai Lama begins exile 1940 - Germany's Atlantis launches 1889 - Eiffel Tower opens | |
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