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1986 |
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Jennifer Levin was found strangled in New York City's Central Park. In the case called the "preppie murder" case Robert Chambers eventually pled guilty. |
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1993 |
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Dorothea Puente was convicted of murdering three people that had been tenants in her boarding house. She was sentenced to life without parole. |
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1996 |
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Robert Vesco, a U.S. financier, was convicted in a Cuban court of economic crimes. |
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1996 |
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Chun Doo-hwan, the former military leader of South Korea, was sentenced to death. His crimes were mutiny, treason and embezzlement. |
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1992 |
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A "no-fly zone" was imposed on the southern 1/3 of Iraq. The move by the U.S., France and Britain was aimed at protecting Iraqi Shiite Muslims. |
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1883 |
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A two-day eruption of the volcanic island Krakatoa began. The tidal waves that were associated with the eruption killed 36,000 people when they destroyed the island. |
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1873 |
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The school board of St. Louis, MO, authorized the first U.S. public kindergarten. |
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1939 |
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The first televised major league baseball games were shown. The event was a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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1939 |
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The radio program, "Arch Oboler’s Plays", presented the NBC Symphony for the first time. |
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1920 |
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The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth. |
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1973 |
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A U.S. Presidential Proclamation was declared that made August 26th Women's Equality Day. |
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1998 |
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U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a review of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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1743 |
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Antoine Lavoisier was born. He was the chemist that proved that the union of oxygen and other chemicals is used in burning, rusting of metals and breathing.
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1873 |
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Dr. Lee DeForest was born. He was the inventor of the Audion tube. The tube makes the broadcasting of sound possible. |
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1974 |
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Charles Lindberg died at the age of 72. |
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1978 |
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Sigmund Jahn blasted off aboard the Russian Soyuz 31 and became the first German in space. |
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1990 |
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In Gainesville, FL, two slain college students were found in their apartment. Three more bodies would be found in the few days that followed. |
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1990 |
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The 55 Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait left Baghdad by car and headed for the Turkish border. |
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1996 |
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Barbara Jewell asked U.S. President Clinton to clear her son's name in connection with the Centennial Olympic Park bombing. Richard Jewell was later cleared by the Justice Department. |
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1896 |
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In the Philippines, and insurrection began against the Spanish government.
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1934 |
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Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany. |
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1937 |
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All Chinese shipping was blockaded by Japan. |
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1981 |
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The U.S. claimed that North Korea fired an antiaircraft missile at a U.S. Surveillance plane while it was over South Korea. |
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1991 |
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Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised that national elections would be held.
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1992 |
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A mistrial was declared in the Iran-Contra cover-up trial of CIA spy Clair George.
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1998 |
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Sudan filed a criminal lawsuit against U.S. President Clinton and the United States for the bombing of the El-Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries Company. The Sudanese claimed that the plant was strictly civilian.
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1947 |
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Don Bankhead became the first black pitcher in major league baseball. |
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1961 |
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The International Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto opened. |
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1998 |
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The U.S. government announced that they were investigating Microsoft in an attempt to discover if they "bullied" Intel into delaying new technology. |
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1498 |
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Michelangelo was commissioned to make the "Pieta." |
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1842 |
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The first fiscal year was established by the U.S. Congress to start on July 1st. |
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1847 |
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Liberia was proclaimed as an independent republic |
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1957 |
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The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled out. |
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1987 |
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The Fuller Brush Company announced plans to open two retail stores in Dallas, TX. The company that had sold its products door to door for 81 years.
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55 B.C. |
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Britain was invaded by Roman forces under Julius Caesar. |
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1945 |
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The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II. |
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1957 |
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It was announced that an intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully tested by the Soviet Union. |