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1966
B-52 bombers hit the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam for the first time.
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1946
Paul Schrader, screenwriter and film director (Taxi Driver).
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1943
Palermo, Sicily surrenders to General George S. Patton‘s Seventh Army.
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1938
The Third Reich issues special identity cards for Jewish Germans.
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1936
Tom Robbins, novelist (Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues).
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1934
American gangster John Dillinger is shot dead by FBI officers outside a Chicago cinema.
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1932
Megan Terry, playwright (Calm Down Mother, Goona Goona).
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1923
Robert Dole, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate.
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1908
Amy Vanderbilt, American journalist, etiquette authority.
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1898
Alexander Calder, sculptor.
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Stephen Vincent Benet, poet and short-story writer (John Brown’s Body).
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1894
The first automobile race takes place between Paris and Rouen, France.
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1893
Karl Menninger, American physician, founder of the Menninger Foundation.
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1888
Selman Abraham Waksman, biochemist.
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1887
Gustav Hertz, German physicist.