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2002 - The US confirms a "shadow government", consisting of career executive-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 Puerto Rican nationalists fire from spectators' gallery; all five recover 1941 - First commercially licensed FM station 1872 - Production began on the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer 1872 - Yellowstone Park established | |
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1997 - Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth 1995 - Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8)launches 1992 - Moldova joins the United Nations 1985 - FDA approves an ELISA screening test for AIDS antibody for all blood banks 1983 - Sony introduces Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips 1972 - Pioneer 10 launched to Jupiter 1949 - Automatic streetlights are introduced 1927 - Babe Ruth signs a $70,000 per year contract, becomes the highest paid baseball player in the baseball sport 1925 - First numbered highways 1836 - Texas Independence proclaimed 1807 - Congress abolishes the African slave trade | |
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2002 - Voters in Switzerland 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. 1977 - About 1,500 people are killed after a magnitude 8.7 earthquake strikes near Romanian capital, Bucharest 1952 - Ernest Hemingway finishes "The Old Man & the Sea" 1933 - Frances Perkins becomes the 1st woman appointed to a presidential Cabinet when she is sworn in as Secretary of Labor. (She retired in 1945 after serving 12 years — the longest tenured Secretary). 1865 - Lincoln inaugurated for a second term 1861 - Lincoln inaugurated | |
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1998 - Serbs battle ethnic Albanians 1982 - Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data 1978 - Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, CA 1968 - US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test site 1960 - Elvis Presley, one of the most influential and best selling recording artists of the 20th century, ends 2-year hitch in US Army 1953 - Joseph Stalin dies | |
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2017 - Wikileaks publishes "Vault 7" CIA documents detailing its hacking and surveillance techniques 2015 - U.S. charges two Vietnamese citizens and a Canadian with running a massive cyberfraud ring that stole 1 billion email addresses for spam 1983 - Kohl elected West German chancellor 1981 - Soyuz 39 returns to Earth 1981 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1960 - President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament 1957 - Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from United Kingdom 1953 - Georgi Malenkov succeeds Stalin - becomes Soviet Premier 1931 - First radio newsreel debuts 1475 - Michelangelo is born | |
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2017 - Malta's famous landmark the Azure Window collaspes into the sea after a storm 1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed 1994 - Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa 1994 - US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on its combat ships 1994 - Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia 1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released 1973 - Bangladesh's first democratic leader 1968 - The BBC broadcasts news first time in color on television. 1918 - Finland signs treaty with Germany 1916 - BMW is born 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone | |
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2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears 1986 - Martina Navratilova, the 1st female tennis player to earn $10 million 1983 - IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0 1979 - China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam 1975 - S. Vietnam President Thieu orders force withdrawal 1965 - 1st US combat forces (3,500 Marines) arrive in Vietnam 1957 - Egypt opens the Suez Canal 1945 - International Women's Day is 1st observed 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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2011 - 20,896 people are killed after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes with a massive tsunami along the Japanese coast 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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2012 - Encyclopaedia Britannica announces no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopaedia 1992 - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake kills over 500 people in Erzincan, Turkey 1992 - FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12) 1991 - Exxon pays $1 billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill in Alaska 1989 - US space shuttle STS-29 launched 1986 - Microsoft's initial public offering. 1969 - Apollo 9 returns to Earth 1950 - General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (1st record) 1946 - UAW takes on General Motors 1921 - Mongolia declares independence from China 1918 - Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronshtein) gains control of the Red Army 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 killed and around 25 injured 1939 - Nazis take Czechoslovakia 1917 - Czar Nicholas II abdicates 1906 - Rolls Royce is born 1767 - President Jackson 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 1994 - El Salvador's 1st pres election following 12-year-old civil war 1987 - FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment) 1982 - France performs nuclear test 1854 - Republican Party founded | |
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2014 - Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemenation 1984 - Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan 1980 - Carter tells U.S. athletes of Olympic boycott in Moscow 1975 - Ethiopia abolishes its monarchy after 3,000 years 1972 - US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote 1971 - First use of computer animation for entertainment 1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test site 1965 - US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact | |
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1996 -STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit 1994 - Soyuz TM-21 lands 1993 - Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS 1985 -NASA launches Intelsat VA F-10 1982 - 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched 1981 - US 1st class postage raised from 15 cents to 18 cents 1978 - France performs nuclear test 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 assassinated 1994 - Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed) 1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1983 - 1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") 1982 - Guatemala military coup under gen Rios Montt, president Romeo Lucas flees 1980 - France performs nuclear test 1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1965 - Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, over 100 killed 1919 - Mussolini founds the Fascist party 1918 - Paris hit by shells from new German gun | |
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2016 - Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić found guilty of genocide during 1995 Srebrenica massacre, jailed to 40 years 2014 - Ukraine withdraws its forces from the Crimea 2008 - Bhutan officially becomes a democracy country, the first general election is held. 1999 - NATO bombs Yugoslavia 1994 - F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in NC, 120 die 1989 - Exxon Valdez runs aground, spills 11.3 mil gallons of oil off Alaska 1976 - Argentine President Isabel Martínez de Perón is deposed in a military coup 1964 - Kennedy half-dollar issued 1954 - AMC (later bought by Chrysler) incorporated 1947 - Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency 1882 - German scientist Robert Koch discovers the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) | |
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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 1911 - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Explosion in Manhattan, New York city; 146 people, mostly women, died of burns 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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2014 - UN General Assembly condemns Russia's annexation of Crimea 1998 - FDA approves Viagra, a male impotence pill 1993 - Jiang Zemin is appointed as President of the People's Republic of China 1976 - Washington, D.C. underground Metro opens 1972 - Venera 8 launched to Venus 1966 - Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party 1944 - Around 1,000 Jews leave Drancy, France, for Auschwitz concentration camp and over 2,000 Jews are murdered by Nazis in Kaunas Lithuania 1939 - NASCAR giant is born | |
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2005 - About 1,300 people are killed after a magnitude 8.7 earthquake strikes the coast of the Indonesian island of Nias, west of Sumatra 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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2013 - Soyuz TMA-08M docks with the International Space Station after setting a new record of 6 hours in orbit before 2004 - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia become full NATO members. 1993 - Five arrested, sixth sought in bombing of World Trade Center in New York 1973 - U.S. withdraws from Vietnam - Last American troops departed 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution. 1943 - Meat (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's), cheese and butter are rationed in the U.S. during WW II 1886 - Coca Cola is invented 1867 - Congress first approves building of Lincoln Memorial 1790 - President Tyler is born in Virginia. | |
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2012 - American Mega Millions lottery hits a world record lottery, $640 million 2012 - Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security with over ten million compromised credit card numbers 1987 - Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for a record, $39.7 million 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 by John W Hinckley III 1965 - A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others 1959 - Dalai Lama flees China and is granted political asylum in India 1946 - Academy Award radio show begins 1942 - Nazi-SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp 1867 - U.S. buys Alaska 1856 - Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War | |
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1997 - NASA's Pioneer 10 ends its mission 1996 - Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands 1991 - Soviet Rep of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves 1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1965 - US orders first combat troops to Vietnam 1962 - Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel for his part in Nazi extermination of sic million Jews 1959 - Dalai Lama begins exile 1953 - US Department of Health, Education & Welfare established 1940 - Germany's Atlantis launches 1889 - Eiffel Tower opens | |
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