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1993 - European Union established 1952 - United States tests first hydrogen bomb 1944 - FDR puts Coast Guard under control of the Navy 1927 - Ford Model A production begins 1895 - First American auto club 1800 - John Adams moves into White House | |
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1995 - Scandal closes Daiwa Bank in U.S. 1983 - Truck explosion kills 3,000 in Afghanistan 1983 - ML King federal holiday declared 1963 - S. Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem murdered during coup | |
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1986 - Iran arms sales revealed 1964 - Johnson defeats Goldwater for presidency 1903 - Panama declares independence 1900 - America's first car show begins | |
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1973 - Iranians storm US embassy 1956 - Soviets crush Hungarian revolt 1948 - T.S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize in literature 1939 - The first air-conditioned car is displayed 1922 - Entrance to King Tut's tomb discovered | |
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1968 - Richard Nixon elected president 1940 - FDR re-elected president 1930 - American novelist Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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1917 - Bolsheviks revolt in Russia 1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America 1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the US | |
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1972 - Nixon re-elected president 1965 - Green Monster sets new speed record, 576.553mph 1957 - East Germany launches the Trabant Sputnik car 1944 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented fourth term 1916 - Jeannette Rankin becomes first U.S. congresswoman 1913 - French novelist Albert Camus is born | |
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1973 - Louvre Museum opens 1960 - John F. Kennedy elected president 1895 - German scientist discovers X-rays 1864 - Lincoln reelected president | |
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1989 - East Germany opens the Berlin Wall 1960 - Robert McNamara named Ford Motor president 1901 - Teddy Roosevelt establishes a naval base in the Philippines | |
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1982 - General secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Leonid Brezhnev dies 1942 - Germans take Vichy France 1928 - Hirohito crowned in Japan 1775 - Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps | |
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1989 - Jaguar becomes a subsidiary of Ford 1986 - Sperry Rand and Burroughs merged to become Unisys 1973 - Soviet Union refuses to play Chile in World Cup Soccer 1918 - World War I ends | |
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1990 - Akihito enthroned as emperor of Japan 1982 -Yuri Andropov assumes power in the Soviet Union 1980 - Voyager I flies near Saturn 1979 - Carter shuts down oil imports from Iran 1946 - First drive-in banking service 1944 - Brits sink the battleship Tirpitz 1927 - Holland Tunnel formally opened 1889 - DeWitt Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest, is born | |
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1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington 1945 - Truman announces inquiry into Jewish settlement in Palestine 1940 - Willys-Overland completes original Jeep prototype | |
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1985 - Volcano erupts in Colombia and buries nearby towns 1969 - Apollo 12 lifts off 1967 - Maj. Gen. Bruno Hochmuth killed in Vietnam 1951 - United States gives military and economic aid to communist Yugoslavia 1914 - The first Dodge | |
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1977 - President Carter hosts shah of Iran 1977 - The 100,000,000th U.S.-built Ford 1956 - Elvis' first film opens 1926 - NBC radio network's grand opening 1917 - Georges Clemenceau named French prime minister 1889 - Brazil's last emperor deposed | |
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1973 - Nixon supports construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline 1988 - Benazir Bhutto elected leader of Pakistan 1945 - German scientists brought to United States to work on rocket technology 1907 - Oklahoma enters the Union |
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1994 - Sony writes off Columbia 1970 - First wheeled-vehicle on the moon 1906 - Honda founder born in Hamamatsu, Japan 1869 - Suez Canal opens | |
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1969 - Joe Kennedy dies 1960 - Chrysler limits DeSoto production 1928 - Mickey Mouse debuts | |
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1985 - Reagan and Gorbachev hold their first summit meeting 1977 - Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat visits Israel | |
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1967 - Product Safety Commission established 1948 - American consul in China held "hostage" by communists 1945 - Nuremberg war-crimes trials begin | |
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1975 - Congressional report charges U.S. involvement in assassination plots in
Cuba, Vietnam, Chili, Congo and Dominican Republic 1970 - Ford Mustang Boss 351 debuts 1941 - Nazi chief architect requests POWs to labor for a new Berlin 1916 - Britannic sinks in Aegean Sea 1916 - Emperor Franz Josef of Austria dies 1877 - Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a way to record and play back sound | |
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1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns 1988 - Stealth bomber unveiled 1985 - Lee Iacocca, Chrysler CEO, leads immigration ceremony 1972 - First B-52 shot down over North Vietnam 1963 - Kennedy becomes fourth president to be assassinated 1927 - Eliason receives snowmobile patent | |
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1981 - Reagan gives CIA authority to establish the Contras 1980 - Southern Italy rocked by earthquake 1940 - Romania signs the Tripartite Pact, officially allying itself with Germany, Italy, and Japan. | |
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1978 - Letterman's first Tonight Show appearance 1971 - Hijacker "D.B. Cooper" parachutes with $200K into thunderstorm from an NWA 727. No trace of Cooper was found. 1963 - Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy 1944 - U.S. B-29s raid Tokyo 1922 - Irish author and nationalist executed 1888 - Dale Carnegie, author of the business and people skills bible "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is born 1868 - Composer Scott Joplin, the "King of Ragtime," is born in Texarkana, Arkansas | |
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1996 - Dow sets new 6.500 point record for the first time in history 1994 - Founder Akio Morita announced his decision to step down as CEO of Sony 1986 - Iran-Contra connection revealed 1967 - Catholic official reports support provided to North Vietnam 1963 - Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington 1941 - A "war warning" of Pearl Harbor attack is sent to commanders in the Pacific 1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, the younger brother of famous automobile designer and racer Louis Chevrolet, was killed during a race 1783 - Last British soldiers leave New York | |
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1990 - Matsushita buys MCA $6.6 billion 1965 - France successfully launches the Asterix-1 satellite into space with a Diamant-A rocket, becoming the world's fourth space power after the Russia, the US, and Canada. 1941 - Japanese task force leaves for Pearl Harbor 1941 - Archaeologists enter King Tutankhamen's tomb in more than 3,000 years 1927 - Ford Model A is announced 1922 - Technicolor debuts | |
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1995 - AmHS/Premier and SunHealth Alliance announced their plans to merge becoming a healthcare titans. 1940 - Iron Guard massacres former Romanian government 1940 - Bruce Lee is born | |
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1989 - Czechoslovakian Communist Party gives up monopoly on political power 1979 - A New Zealander sightseeing plane traveling over Antarctica crashes, killing all 257 people on board 1954 - Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, architect of the nuclear age, dies in Chicago at the age of 53 1943 - FDR attends Tehran Conference 1942 - The first Ford bomber, B-24 Liberator, is produced 1895 - First gas-powered race is run 1582 - William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway | |
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1996 - Volkswagen executive resigns under espionage charges. VW would pay General Motors
$100 million and agree to buy at least $1 billion in parts from GM 1973 - Auto giant Chrysler Corp. announced plans to halt production at seven plants 1967 - McNamara resigns as Secretary of Defense 1948 - First all-Australian automobile is unveiled 1942 - Coffee joins the list of items rationed in the United States 1929 - Richard Byrd and three companions make the first flight over the South Pole | |
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1995 - Justice Dept. indicts 11 brokers, who had developed an elaborate scheme to swipe large sums from their clients'
holdings 1960 - The first Scout all-terrain vehicle is produced 1939 - USSR attacks Finland 1874 - Winston Churchill is born 1835 - Mark Twain, a famous 19th century novelist, is born | |
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