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1985
The U.S. House of Representatives votes to limit the use of combat troops in Nicaragua.
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1973
President Richard Nixon vetoes a Senate ban on the Cambodia bombing.
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1963
Henry Cabot Lodge is appointed U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam.
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1953
Alice McDermott, writer (That Night, At Weddings and Wakes).
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1950
The UN Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea.
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1944
Allied forces capture the port city of Cherbourg, France.
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1942
The Allied convoy PQ-17 leaves Iceland for Murmansk and Archangel.
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1929
Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York reveal a system for transmitting television pictures.
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1927
Bob Keeshan, American television actor, best known as “Captain Kangaroo.”
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The U.S. Marines adopt the English bulldog as their mascot.
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1926
Frank O’Hara, American poet.
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1924
Democrats offer Mrs. Leroy Springs the vice presidential nomination, the first woman considered for the job.
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1923
Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch is wounded by Serb attackers in Belgrade.
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1920
I.A.L. Diamond, screenwriter.
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1918
Two German pilots are saved by parachutes for the first time.