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1989
Thousands of Chinese students strike in Beijing for more democratic reforms.
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1981
The IBM Personal Computer is introduced.
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1980
A rescue attempt of the U.S. hostages held in Iran fails when a plane collides with a helicopter in the Iranian desert.
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1968
Leftist students take over Columbia University in protest over the Vietnam War.
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1961
President John Kennedy accepts “sole responsibility” for the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.
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1953
Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
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1948
The Berlin airlift begins to relieve the surrounded city.
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1944
The first B-29 arrives in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas.
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1916
Irish nationalists launch the Easter Uprising against British occupation.
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1915
Turks of the Ottoman Empire begin massacring the Armenian minority in their country.
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1906
William Joyce, ‘Lord Haw-Haw,’ British traitor, Nazi propagandist.
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1905
Robert Penn Warren, novelist, America’s first poet laureate.
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1904
Willem de Kooning, abstract impressionist painter.
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1900
Elizabeth Goudge, English author.
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1898
Spain declares war on United States, rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.