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Patrick Henry Sherril, postal employee, killed 14 co-workers in a shooting spree at the post office in Edmond, OK. |
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British conservationist George Adamson was killed by bandits in Kenya. Adamson was 83. |
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1955 |
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In Morocco and Algeria hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting. |
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1955 |
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In Morocco and Algeria hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting. |
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1995 |
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348 people were killed in a train incident in northern India. |
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Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovered Alaska. |
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"The Mikado", by Gilbert and Sullivan, opened at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City. |
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1967 |
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The New York Times reported about a noise reduction system for album and tape recording developed by technicians R. and D.W. Dolby. Elektra Record's subsidiary, Checkmate Records became the first label to use the new Dolby process in its recordings. |
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1866 |
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The National Labor Union in the U.S. advocated an eight-hour workday. |
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1964 |
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A $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
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1998 |
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Canada's Supreme Court announced that Quebec could not secede without the federal government's consent. |
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1939 |
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Johnny Weissmuller married Beryl Scott. |
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1955 |
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Col. Horace A. Hanes, a U.S. Air Force pilot, flew to an altitude of 40,000 feet. Hanes reached a speed of 822.135 miles per hour in a Super Sabrejet. |
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1955 |
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Bo Diddley made his first appearance at the Apollo Theater in New York City. |
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1989 |
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Jose and Kitty Menendez were shot to death by their sons Lyle and Erik. The first trials ended in hung juries. |
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Scotland and Britain signed the Treaty of Pacification. |
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1991 |
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A rally of more that 100,000 people occurred outside the Russian parliament building to protest the coup that removed Gorbachev from power. |
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1997 |
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Britain began voluntary evacuation of its Caribbean island of Montserrat due to the volcanic activity of the Soufriere Hills. |
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1998 |
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The U.N. Security Council extended trade sanctions against Iraq for blocking arms inspections. |
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Horace Greeley's "The Prayer of Twenty Millions" was published. |
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1977 |
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Voyager 2 was launched by the United States. The spacecraft was carrying a 12 inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature. |
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1939 |
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The National Bowling Association was founded in Detroit, MI. It was the first bowling association in the U.S. for African-Americans. |
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1945 |
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Tommy Brown of the Brooklyn Dodgers became the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league ball game. Brown was 17 years, 8 months and 14 days old. |
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1949 |
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Cleveland’s Indians and Chicago’s White Sox played at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland before the largest crowd, 78,382 people, to see a nighttime major-league baseball game. |
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1985 |
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The original Xerox 914 copier was presented to the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History. Chester Carlson was the man who invented the machine.
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1882 |
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Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuted in Moscow.
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1923 |
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The first American dirigible, the "Shenandoah," was launched in Lakehurst, NJ. |
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It was formally declared by U.S. President Andrew Johnson that the American Civil War was over. The fighting had stopped months earlier. |
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1914 |
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German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War 1. |
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1918 |
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The British opened its Western Front offensive during World War 1. |
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1940 |
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France fell to the Germans during World War 2. |
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1953 |
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It was announced by the Soviet Union that they had detonated a hydrogen bomb. |
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1968 |
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The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization. |
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1988 |
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Eight British soldiers were killed by a landmine while in a military bus in Northern Ireland. The mine belonged to the Irish Republican Army. |
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1997 |
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NATO troops seized six police stations in Banja Luka that had been held by troops controlled by former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic. |
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1998 |
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U.S. military forces attacked a terrorist camp in Afghanistan and a chemical plant in Sudan. Both targets were chosen for cruise missile strikes due to their connection with Osama bin Laden. |
