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1923 |
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Oklahoma was placed under martial law by Gov. John Calloway Walton due to terrorist activity by the Ku Klux Klan. After this declaration national newspapers began to expose the Klan and its criminal activities. |
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1963 |
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A church bombing kills four young girls in Birmingham, AL. Robert Chambliss was not brought to justice until 1977. |
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1972 |
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The Watergate indictments began against seven perpetrators. |
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1982 |
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Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, was executed. He had been convicted of plotting against the government. |
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1993 |
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The FBI announced a new national campaign concerning the crime of carjacking. |
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1993 |
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Katherine Ann Power surrendered to authorities to face charges in a 1970 bank robbery in which Walter Schroeder Sr. of the Boston Police was killed. She had been in hiding for 23 years. |
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1998 |
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David Andrew Douglas was convicted of strangling his 3-year-old granddaughter Shelby Lynne Barrackman because she licked icing off cupcakes. |
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1961 |
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The U.S. resumed underground testing of nuclear weapons. |
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1998 |
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the Iranian military to be on full alert and massed troops on its border with Afghanistan. |
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1999 |
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The United Nations approved the deployment of a multinational peacekeeping force in East Timor. |
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1883 |
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The University of Texas at Austin opened. |
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1949 |
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"The Lone Ranger" premiered on ABC. Clayton Moore was the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels was Tonto. |
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1965 |
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"Lost in Space" premiered on CBS TV. |
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1965 |
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"Green Acres" premiered on CBS TV. |
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2003 |
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In Independence, MO, the birthplace of Ginger Rogers was designated a local landmark. The move by the Independence City Council qualified the home for historic preservation.
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1959 |
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Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in the U.S. to begin a 13-day visit. |
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1994 |
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U.S. President Clinton told Haiti's military leaders "Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power." |
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1928 |
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Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum. |
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1858 |
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The first mail service begins to the Pacific Coast of the U.S. under government contract. Coaches from the Butterfield Overland Mail Company took 12 days to make the journey between Tipton, MO and San Francisco, CA. |
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1995 |
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The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing. |
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1998 |
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It was announced that 5.9 million people read The Starr Report on the Internet. 606,000 people read the White House defense of U.S. President Clinton. |
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1789 |
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The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State. |
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1821 |
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Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador proclaimed independence. |
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1917 |
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Alexander Kerensky proclaimed Russia to be a republic. |
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1935 |
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The Nuremberg Laws were enacted by Nazi Germany. The act stripped all German Jews of their civil rights and the swastika was made the official symbol of Nazi Germany. |
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1983 |
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The U.S. Senate joined the U.S. House of Representatives in their condemning of the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean jet with 269 people onboard. |
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1990 |
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France announced that it would send an additional 4,000 soldiers to the Persian Gulf. They also expelled Iraqi military attaches in Paris. |
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1982 |
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The first issue of "USA Today" was published. |
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1853 |
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Reverend Antoinette Brown Blackwell was ordained becoming first female minister in the United States. |
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1955 |
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Betty Robbins became the first woman cantor. |
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1928 |
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Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum. |
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1953 |
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The National Boxing Association adopted the 10-point scoring system for all of its matches. |
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1978 |
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Muhammad Ali defeated Leon Spinks to win his 3rd World Heavyweight Boxing title. |
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1857 |
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Timothy Alder earned a patent for the typesetting machine. |
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1909 |
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Charles F. Kettering applied for a patent on his ignition system. His company Delco (Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company) later became a subsidiary of General Motors. |
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1971 |
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Greenpeace was founded. |
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1993 |
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The FBI announced a new national campaign concerning the crime of carjacking. |
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1909 |
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A New York judge rule that Ford Motor Company had infringed on George Seldon's patent for the "Road Engine." The ruling was later overturned. |
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1858 |
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The first mail service begins to the Pacific Coast of the U.S. under government contract. Coaches from the Butterfield Overland Mail Company took 12 days to make the journey between Tipton, MO and San Francisco, CA. |
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1775 |
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An early and unofficial American flag was raised by Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Mott after the seizing of Fort Johnson from the British. The flag was dark blue with the white word "Liberty" spelled on it. |
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1776 |
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British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution. |
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1916 |
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During the Battle of the Somme, in France, tanks were first used in warfare when the British rolled them onto the battlefields. |
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1940 |
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The German Luftwaffe suffered the loss of 185 planes in the Battle of Britain. The change in tide forced Hitler to abandon his plans for invading Britain. |
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1950 |
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U.N. forces landed at Inchon, Korea in an attempt to relieve South Korean forces and recapture Seoul. |