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1986
The space shuttle Challenger explodes just after liftoff.
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1970
Israeli fighter jets attack the suburbs of Cairo.
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1964
The Soviets down a U.S. jet over East Germany killing three.
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1955
The U.S. Congress passes a bill allowing mobilization of troops if China should attack Taiwan.
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1945
Chiang Kai-shek renames the Ledo-Burma Road the Stilwell Road, in honor of General Joseph Stilwell.
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1941
French General Charles DeGaulle‘s Free French forces sack south Libya oasis.
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1936
A fellow prison inmate slashes infamous kidnapper, Richard Loeb, to death.
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1932
The Japanese attack Shanghai, China, and declare martial law.
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1921
Albert Einstein startles Berlin by suggesting the possibility of measuring the universe.
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1915
The German navy attacks the U.S. freighter William P. Frye, loaded with wheat for Britain.
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The U.S. Coast Guard is founded to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
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1912
Jackson Pollock, influential abstract expressionist painter.
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1871
Surrounded by Prussian troops and suffering from famine, the French army in Paris surrenders. During the siege, balloons were used to keep contact with the outside world.
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1853
Jose Marti, Cuban poet and journalist, known as the “Apostle of the Cuban Revolution.”
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1792
Rebellious slaves in Santo Domingo launch an attack on the city of Cap.