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Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States of America. | |
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1878
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American actor and director Lionel Herbert Blythe aka Lionel Barrymore is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania US | |
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1908
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Czech-German businessman Oskar Schindler, Righteous of The Nations, is born in Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary which is now Svitavy, Czech Republic | |
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1916
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Italian businessman Ferruccio Lamborghini who created the automobile giant Lamborghini is born in Emilia-Romagna, Italy | |
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1920
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The Soviet Union annexes Azerbaijan | |
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1930
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Carolyn Sue Jones, award winning American actress best known for her portrayal of Morticia Addams in the television series The Addams Family was born in Amarillo, Texas, United States. | |
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1932
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A vaccine for the acute viral hemorrhagic disease yellow fever is announced for use on humans. | |
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1937
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Iraqi general and politician and monster Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti aka Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq is born in Al-Awja, Saladin Province, Kingdom of Iraq | |
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1941
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Almost 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovache are massacred by the Ustaše massacre the first campaign in their genocide against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia | |
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1944
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Exercise Tiger consists 9 German E-boats which attacked US and UK units rehersing for the Normandy landings killing 946 | |
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1945
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Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. | |
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Claretta Petacci, aka "Clara" Italian mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini died at age 33 in Giulino di Mezzegra, Kingdom of Italy before a firing squad. Accounts of the execution mention a prior attempt to let her go free which she declined. | |
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1949
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Paul Guilfoyle, American television and film actor best known as Captain Jim Brass on the forensic television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was born in Canton, Massachusetts, United States. | |
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1950
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James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno, American stand-up comedian and television host was born in New Rochelle, New York, United States. | |
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1952
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Dwight D Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO | |
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Japanese sovereignty is restored the state of war with most of the Allies of World War II with the advent of the Treaty of San Francisco | |
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The Treaty of Taipei is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China officially ending the Second Sino-Japanese War | |
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1965
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American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops | |
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1967
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Boxer Muhammad Ali declines induction into the United States Army resulting in being stripped of his championship and license | |
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1969
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Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France | |
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1970
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American combat troops fighting communist sanctuaries in Cambodia are formally authorized by US President Richard Nixon | |
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1973
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The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US charts and ultimately has 741 week run on the charts | |
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1975
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As the North Vietnamese Army closes in on victory General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military departs for the US | |
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1977
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Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder in what becomes known as the Red Army Faction trial | |
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1978
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Pro communist rebels in Afghanistan conduct a coup whereby they overthrow and assassinate President Mohammed Daoud Khan | |
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1986
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The USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea under orders to relieve the USS Coral Sea | |
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High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident | |
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1988
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Louis Charles Stevenson, aka "B. W. Stevenson", American country singer best known for his song "My Maria" died at the age of 38 in Dallas, Texas, United States shortly after cardiac surgery. | |
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Flight attendant Clarabelle "CB" Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243 a Boeing 737 falling to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight | |
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1994
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Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst and traitor Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia. | |
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1996
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A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 and wounding 23 | |
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President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense in the so-called Whitewater investigation | |
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2004
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CBS News released evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse with photographs showing rape and abuse by the American troops toward Iraqi detainees | |
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2015
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The National Football League announces that it will end its tax-exempt status | |
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World Day for Safety and Health at Work | |
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Workers Memorial Day | |
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