| 1995 |
-- STS 74 (Atlantis 15), lands
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| 1990 |
-- US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
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| 1986 |
-- Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees
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| 1983 |
-- 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war
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| 1977 |
-- Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
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| 1975 |
-- Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Rep nomination for president
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| 1971 |
-- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| 1970 |
-- UN General Assembly accepts membership of China PR
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| 1969 |
-- Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans
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| 1968 |
-- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| 1965 |
-- UN Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia
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| 1962 |
-- USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, & US lifts blockade
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| 1959 |
-- UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights
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| 1948 |
-- US balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)
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| 1947 |
-- UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
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| 1947 |
-- 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)
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| 1945 |
-- 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
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| 1944 |
-- 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
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| 1943 |
-- U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
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| 1943 |
-- US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island
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| 1942 |
-- Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines
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| 1942 |
-- Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein becomes commanding
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| 1942 |
-- British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
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| 1942 |
-- 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
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| 1941 |
-- Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
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| 1920 |
-- Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson
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| 1919 |
-- 1st municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson Az)
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| 1917 |
-- 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)
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| 1914 |
-- US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
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| 1894 |
-- US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
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| 1888 |
-- William Bundy patents timecard clock
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| 1866 |
-- Howard University founded (Wash, DC)
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| 1862 |
-- Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under Gen Braxton Bragg
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| 1862 |
-- Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee
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| 1817 |
-- 1st Seminole War begins in Florida
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| 1789 |
-- New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
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| 1759 |
-- -22] Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French
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