| 1995 |
-- Israel grants jailed US spy Jason Pollard, citizenship
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| 1993 |
-- Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of municipal elections in Rome
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| 1973 |
-- Pres Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18½ minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate
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| 1969 |
-- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| 1965 |
-- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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| 1963 |
-- JFK flies to Texas
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| 1946 |
-- Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub
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| 1940 |
-- Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands
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| 1938 |
-- Nazi forces occupy western Czech & declared them German citizens
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| 1935 |
-- 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
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| 1933 |
-- 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
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| 1924 |
-- British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with USSR
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| 1920 |
-- Mussolinis squad begins terror
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| 1918 |
-- Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland
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| 1877 |
-- Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph)
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| 1871 |
-- The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot
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| 1865 |
-- Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
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| 1864 |
-- -22] Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia
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| 1852 |
-- Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College
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| 1794 |
-- Honolulu Harbor discovered
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| 1789 |
-- North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
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| 1787 |
-- Andrew Jackson admitted to bar
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| 1654 |
-- Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
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| 1620 |
-- Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod
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| 1620 |
-- Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass
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| 1492 |
-- Pinta under Martín A Pinzón separates from Columbus' fleet
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