| 1992 |
-- China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
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| 1991 |
-- Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
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| 1988 |
-- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| 1987 |
-- Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka
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| 1986 |
-- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| 1982 |
-- British troops lands on Falkland Islands
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| 1980 |
-- Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service acad
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| 1971 |
-- National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
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| 1970 |
-- USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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| 1969 |
-- Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
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| 1968 |
-- USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
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| 1968 |
-- Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
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| 1964 |
-- US begin intelligence flights above Laos
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| 1964 |
-- 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
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| 1961 |
-- Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
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| 1958 |
-- US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
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| 1956 |
-- US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
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| 1950 |
-- Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
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| 1945 |
-- German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
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| 1944 |
-- Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
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| 1941 |
-- German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
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| 1941 |
-- 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
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| 1940 |
-- Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
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| 1940 |
-- AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
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| 1932 |
-- 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands
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| 1918 |
-- House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
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| 1917 |
-- Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
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| 1881 |
-- American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
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| 1879 |
-- Battle of Iquiquw
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| 1864 |
-- GEN David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia
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| 1863 |
-- Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
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| 1861 |
-- Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
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| 1861 |
-- NC is 10th state to secede from Union
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| 1856 |
-- Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
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| 1804 |
-- Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
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| 1683 |
-- West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
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| 1602 |
-- Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
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