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1992 |
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Italian financier Carlo de Benedetti and 32 others were convicted of fraud in connection with the 1982 collapse of Banco Ambrosiano. |
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1996 |
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An Italian court found former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi guilty on charges of corruption. He was sentenced to eight years and three months in prison. |
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1854 |
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San Salvador was destroyed by an earthquake. |
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1947 |
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In Texas City, TX, the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up. The explosions and resulting fires killed 576 people. |
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1951 |
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75 people were killed when the British submarine Affray sank in the English Channel. |
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1978 |
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In Orissa, India, 180 people died when a tornado hit. |
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1905 |
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Andrew Carnegie donated $10,000,000 of personal money to set up the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. |
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1935 |
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"Fibber McGee and Molly" premiered. |
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1962 |
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Walter Cronkite began anchoring "The CBS Evening News". |
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1987 |
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sternly warned U.S. radio stations to watch the use of indecent language on the airwaves. |
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1705 |
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Queen Anne of England knighted Isaac Newton. |
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1883 |
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Paul Kruger became president of the South African Republic. |
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1175 |
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Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, signed the Treaty of Montebello with the Lombard League. |
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1818 |
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The U.S. Senate ratified Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border. |
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1862 |
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Confederate President Jefferson Davis approved conscription act for white males between 18 and 35. |
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1862 |
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In the U.S., slavery was abolished by law in the District of Columbia. |
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1922 |
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The Soviet Union and Germany signed the Treaty of Rapallo under which Germany recognized the Soviet Union and diplomatic and trade relations were restored. |
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1982 |
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Queen Elizabeth proclaimed Canada's new constitution in effect. The act severed the last colonial links with Britain. |
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2002 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court overturned major parts of a 1996 child pornography law based on rights to free speech. |
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1912 |
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Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. |
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1996 |
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Britain's Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, the Duchess of York, announced that they were in the process of getting a divorce. |
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1065 |
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The Norman Robert Guiscard took Bari. Five centuries of Byzantine rule in southern Italy ended. |
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1917 |
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution after years of exile. |
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1900 |
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The first book of postage stamps was issued. The two-cent stamps were available in books of 12, 24 and 48 stamps. |
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0556 |
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Pelagius I began his reign as Catholic Pope. |
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1947 |
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The Zoomar lens, invented by Dr. Frank Back, was demonstrated in New York City. It was the first lens to exhibit zooming effects. |
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1972 |
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Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon. It was the fifth manned moon landing. |
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1922 |
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Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row, to set a women's record. |
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1940 |
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The first no-hit, no-run game to be thrown on an opening day of the major league baseball season was earned by Bob Feller. The Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago White Sox 1-0. |
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1968 |
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Major league baseball’s longest night game was played. The 24 innings took six hours, six minutes to play. |
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1985 |
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Mickey Mantle was reinstated after being banned from baseball for several years. |
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1999 |
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Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement from the National Hockey League (NHL). |
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1987 |
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The U.S. Patent Office began allowing the patenting of new animals created by genetic engineering. |
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1972 |
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Two giants pandas arrived in the U.S. from China. |
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1995 |
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The European Union and Canada agreed to protect threatened fish stocks in the north Atlantic. |
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1948 |
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The European Union and Canada agreed to protect threatened fish stocks in the north Atlantic. |
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1992 |
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The House ethics committee listed 303 current and former lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts. |
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1953 |
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The British royal yacht Britannia was launched. |
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0069 |
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Otho committed suicide after being defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum. |
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1746 |
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The Duke of Cumberland defeated Bonnie Prince Charlie (and his Jacobites) at the battle of Culloden. |
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1942 |
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The Island of Malta was awarded the George Cross in recognition for heroism under constant German air attack. |
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1944 |
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The destroyer USS Laffey survived immense damage from attacks by 22 Japanese aircraft off Okinawa. |
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1945 |
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American troops entered Nuremberg, Germany. |
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1968 |
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The Pentagon announced that troops would begin coming home from Vietnam. |
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1975 |
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The Khmer Rouge Rebels won control of Cambodia after a five years of civil war. They renamed the country Kampuchea and began a reign of terror. |