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2005 - Terrorists strike again in Bali 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes head of Supreme Soviet 1987 - Earthquake rocks Southern California 1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida 1965 - Suharto crushes Indonesian coup 1949 - Mao Zedong proclaims People's Republic of China 1924 - President Jimmy Carter is born in Georgia. 1890 - Congress creates Yosemite National Park | |
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1963 - Hurricane devastates Haiti 1919 - U.S President Woodrow Wilson suffers massive stroke | |
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1990 - East and West Germany reunite after 45 years 1952 - Britain successfully tests A-bomb 1942 - Germany conducts first successful V-2 rocket test 1932 - Iraq wins independence | |
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1965 - Pope visits U.S. 1957 - Soviet Union launches the unmanned satellite Sputnik I 1822 - President Hayes is born in Ohio. | |
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1989 - Dalai Lama wins Peace Prize 1969 - Cuban defector lands MiG in Miami 1948 - 110,000 people are killed as a powerful earthquake strikes Turkmenistan. 1947 - President Harry Truman (1884-1972) makes the first-ever televised presidential address from the White House 1830 - President Arthur is born in Vermont. | |
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1970 - South Vietnamese forces withdraw from Cambodia 1967 - The first Physician's Assistants graduate from Duke University 1889 - Thomas Edison showed the 1st motion picture 1866 - The Reno gang carries out the first robbery of a moving train in the U.S | |
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2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes California governor 1985 - Palestinian terrorists hijack an Italian cruise ship 1949 - East Germany created 1913 - Moving Assembly Line at Ford's automotive manufacture | |
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2005 - More than 73,000 people die when a magnitude 6.2 quake hits the disputed Kashmir region 1997 - Chrysler recalled 1.1 million minivans costs the car giant roughly $30 million. 1871 - Fire rips through Chicago | |
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1970 - Khmer Republic proclaimed in Cambodia. 1963 - Landslide kills thousands in Italy 1936 - Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles | |
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1973 - Vice President Agnew resigns 1945 - Birth of the U.S. Naval Academy 1944 - Eight hundred children are gassed to death at Auschwitz | |
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2002 - Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Prize 1986 - Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik 1984 - Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Kathryn Sullivan becomes the first American woman walking in space. 1975 - Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham 1968 - Apollo 7 was launched 1950 - Viet Minh take control in the north 1950 - Color TV license issued | |
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2002 - Terrorists kill 202 in Bali 2000 - USS Cole was attacked by terrorists 1993 - Toyota's one-millionth Camry 1810 - The very first Oktoberfest is held in Munich, Bavaria, Germany 1492 - Columbus reaches the New World | |
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1977 - Palestinians hijack German airliner 1943 - Italy declares war on Germany | |
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1964 - African American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1912 - Theodore Roosevelt shot in Milwaukee. 1822 - Victor Hugo marries Adele Foucher. 1890 - President Eisenhower is born in Texas. | |
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1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize 1951 - "I Love Lucy" premiered on television. 1948 - Gerald Ford marries Elizabeth Bloomer | |
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1996 - Stampede kills 84 at World Cup match 1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1966 - U.S. Department of Transportation is created 1854 - Lincoln speaks out against slavery | |
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1989 - Earthquake rocks San Francisco 1973 - Arab members of OPEC start slashing oil output and raise prices after U.S. military planes landed in Israel with arms and ammunition on 10/14/1973. 1931 - Mobster Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion, and is sentenced to 11 years in prison and fined $80,000. | |
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1989 - East Germany and Hungary move toward democracy 1973 - President Nixon asked Congress for $2.2 billion in emergency aid to Israel 1973 - Libya begins to cut off oil exports to the U.S. 1931 - Edison dies 1898 - U.S. takes control of Puerto Rico 1867 - U.S. takes possession of Alaska | |
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1983 - The Senate passed a bill making Martin Luther King's Birthday a national holiday. 1943 - Chinese and Suluks revolt against Japanese in North Borneo 1812 - Napoleon retreats from Moscow 1781 - The Revolutionary War ended | |
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1975 - U.S. agrees to sell grain to U.S.S.R. 1973 - Saudi Arabia begins to cut off oil exports to the U.S. 1944 - U.S. forces land at Leyte Island in the Philippines. | |
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1967 - 100,000 people march on the Pentagon 1941 - Germans massacre men, women, and children in Yugoslavia 1879 - Thomas Edison invented the incandescent electric lamp. | |
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1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, which he declines. 1913 - Coal mine explodes in New Mexico. 1797 - The first parachutist. | |
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2011 - Over 200 people are killed as a 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes south-eastern Turkey. 2002 - Hostage crisis in Moscow theater. 1971 - Disney World opens. 1915 - 25,000 women marched gin New York City demanding the right to vote. | |
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2003 - The Concorde makes its final flight 1951 - Truman declares war with Germany officially over 1861 - Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph line 1945 - The United Nations is established. | |
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1983 - United States invades Grenada. 1971 - The U.N. seats the People's Republic of China and expels Taiwan. 1881 - Pablo Picasso is born in Malaga, Spain | |
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2011 - Libyan Dictator, Moammar Gaddafi, is killed. 2001 - President George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act 1998 - Hurricane Mitch slams into Central America 1955 - Diem becomes premier of Republic of Vietnam 1958 - China begins to withdraw from North Korea. 1950 - Chinese Communists enter Korea war 1917 - Brazil declares war on Germany 1776 - Benjamin Franklin sets sail for France | |
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1994 - U.S. prison population exceeds one million. 1954 - Disneyland debuts. 1946 - First commercially sponsored TV show debuts. 1904 - New York City subway opens. 1858 - President T. Roosevelt is born in NY. | |
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1940 - Italy invades Greece. 1886 - France presented the U.S. President Grover Cleveland with the Statute of Liberty. | |
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2008 - About 300 people are killed as a 6.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Balochistan of Pakistan. 1998 - John Glenn returns to space 1956 - Israel invades Egypt and Suez Crisis begins 1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashed on what came to be known as "Black Tuesday", starting the Great Depression | |
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1995 - Quebec separatists narrowly defeated. 1988 - Philip Morris takes over Kraft. 1972 - Nixon boosts Social Security. 1963 - The first Lamborghini. 1735 - President J. Adam is born in Massachusetts. | |
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2002 - Italy is traumatized by the loss of an entire class of children, killed in the southern village of San Giuliano di Puglia
when a earthquake hits the their school building areas 1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi is assassinated. 1968 - President Johnson orders halt to U.S. bombardment of North Vietnam. 1961 - Stalin's body removed from Lenin's tomb. 1957 - Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. founded. 1964 - The U.S. Congress admits Nevada as the 36th state. 1887 - Chiang Kai-Shek is born. | |
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