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1981
America’s first space shuttle, Columbia, returns to Earth.
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1969
The first major league baseball game in Montreal, Canada is played.
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1961
The first live broadcast is televised from the Soviet Union.
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1959
The Taft Memorial Bell Tower is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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1953
The Viet Minh invade Laos with 40,00 troops in their war against French colonial forces.
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1945
American B-29 bombers damage the Imperial Palace during firebombing raid over Tokyo.
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1931
King Alfonso XIII of Spain is overthrown.
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1912
The passenger liner Titanic–deemed unsinkable–strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and begins to sink. The ship will go under the next day with a loss of 1,500 lives.
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1904
Sir John Gielgud, British actor.
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1900
The World Exposition opens in Paris.
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1898
Harold Black, electrical engineer.
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1894
Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope is shown to the public for the first time.
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1889
Arnold Toynbee, English historian.
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1866
Anne Mansfield Sullivan, teacher who educated Helen Keller.
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1865
President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth.