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1986
KGB arrests journalist Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) on a charge of spying and hold him for 13 days.
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1983
Eiffel Tower welcomes its 150 millionth visitor, 33-year-old Parisian Jacqueline Martinez.
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Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space.
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1982
Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) forced out of Lebanon after 10 years in Beirut during Lebanese Civil War.
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1979
First recorded instance of a comet (Howard-Koomur-Michels) hitting the sun; the energy released is equal to approximately 1 million hydrogen bombs.
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1976
Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show.
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1972
Cameron Diaz, model, award-winning actress (The Mask, There’s Something About Mary, Any Given Sunday).
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1967
US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first African-American Supreme Court justice.
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1964
Gavin Fisher, mechanical engineer; chief designer of the Williams Formula One racing team (1997–2005).
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1963
Hot Line communications link installed between Moscow and Washington, DC.
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1961
President John F. Kennedy appoints General Lucius D. Clay as his personal representative in Berlin.
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1960
US Army Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, receives posthumous Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia.
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Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese political-paramilitary group Hezbollah since 1992.
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1958
Anna Politkovskaya (Anna Mazepa), New York-born Ukrainian journalist, writer, human rights advocate best known for her reporting from Chechnya.
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1956
Jayne Irving, TV broadcaster (Good Morning Britain).