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Mary Ann "Polly" Nicholls was found murdered in London. The murder is generally accepted as the first "Jack the Ripper" crime. |
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1985 |
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The "Night Stalker" killer, Richard Ramirez, was captured by residents in Los Angeles, CA. 1986: 82 people were killed when a small private plane collided with a Aeromexico DC-9 over Cerritos, CA. |
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1989 |
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Jim Bakker had an apparent breakdown in his attorney's office. This interrupted the fraud and conspiracy trial the PTL founder was undergoing. |
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1886 |
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110 people were killed when an earthquake struck Charleston, SC. |
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1954 |
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70 people were killed when Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern coast of the U.S. |
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1981 |
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In Ramstein, West Germany, a bomb exploded at the U.S. Air Force European headquarters. Brigadier General Joseph D. Moore and 19 others were injured. |
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1986 |
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The Admiral Nakhimov, a Soviet passenger ship, collided with a merchant vessel in the Black Sea. 448 people were killed when both ships sank. |
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1988 |
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A Delta Boeing 727 crashed during takeoff at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Texas. Fourteen people were killed in the accident that was later blamed on the crew's failure to set the wing flaps in their proper position. |
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1998 |
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An explosion in a market in Algiers, Algeria killed at least 17 and wounded approximately 60. |
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1999 |
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At least 69 people were killed when a Boeing 737 crashed just after take off in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
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1964 |
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California officially became the most populated state in America. |
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1920 |
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The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI. |
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1941 |
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The radio program "The Great Gildersleeve" made its debut on NBC. |
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1946 |
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Superman returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System after being dropped earlier in the year. |
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1981 |
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The 30-year contract between Milton Berle and NBC-TV expired. |
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1998 |
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"Titanic" became the first movie in North America to earn more than $600 million. |
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1823: Ferdinand VII was restored to the throne of Spain when invited French forces entered Cadiz. The event is known as the Battle of Trocadero. |
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1852 |
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The first pre-stamped envelopes were created with legislation of the U.S. Congress. |
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1935 |
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The act of exporting U.S. arms to belligerents was prohibited by an act signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
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1965 |
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development was created by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. |
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1940 |
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Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Leigh were married. |
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1969 |
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The boxer Rocky Marciano died in an airplane crash in Iowa. |
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1989 |
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Great Britain's Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announced that they were separating. The marriage was 16 years old. |
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1995 |
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Judge Lance Ito ruled that only two tapes of racist comments by Mark Fuhrman could be played in the trial of O.J. Simpson. |
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1996 |
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Nadine Lockwoods body was found in her family's apartment by New York City police. The four-year-old girl had been starved to death. |
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1997 |
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Princess Diana of Wales died at age 36 in a car crash in Paris. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and their chauffeur were also killed.
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1989 |
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Great Britain's Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announced that they were separating. The marriage was 16 years old. |
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1962 |
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The Caribbean nations Tobago and Trinidad became independent within the British Commonwealth. |
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1990 |
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U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar met with the Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to try and negotiate a solution to the crisis in the Persian Gulf. |
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1990 |
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East and West Germany signed a treaty that meant the harmonizing of political and legal systems. |
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1991 |
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Uzbekistan and Kirghiziz declared their independence from the Soviet Union. They were the 9th and 10th republics to announce their plans to secede. |
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1991 |
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In a "Solidarity Day" protest hundreds of thousands of union members marched in Washington, DC. |
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1992 |
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Randy Weaver, a white separatist, surrendered to authorities after an 11 day siege at his cabin in Naples, ID. |
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1992 |
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In a "Solidarity Day" protest hundreds of thousands of union members marched in Washington, DC. |
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1993 |
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Russia withdrew its last soldiers from Lithuania. |
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1994 |
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A cease-fire was declared by the Irish Republican Army after 25 years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland. |
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1994 |
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Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after a half-century. |
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1998 |
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U.S. embassies in Ghana and Togo were closed indefinitely because of security threats. |
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1881 |
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The first tennis championships in the U.S. were played. |
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1950 |
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Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit four home runs in a single game off of four different pitchers. |
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1959 |
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Sandy Koufax set a National League record by striking out 18 batters.
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1887 |
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The kinetoscope was patented by Thomas Edison. The device was used to produce moving pictures. |
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1852: The first pre-stamped envelopes were created with legislation of the U.S. Congress. |
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1980 |
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Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike. |
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1823 |
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Ferdinand VII was restored to the throne of Spain when invited French forces entered Cadiz. The event is known as the Battle of Trocadero. |
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1998 |
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A ballistic missile was fired over Japan by North Korea. The missile landed in stages in the waters around Japan. There was no known target. |
