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2003
Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein captured; he is found hiding in near his home town of Tikrit.
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2001
Terrorists attach the Parliament of India Sansad; 15 people are killed, including the terrorists
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1989
Taylor Swift, multiple award-winning crossover country singer, actress; youngest-ever Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year and youngest artist ever to win an Album of the Year Grammy.
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1985
France sues the United States over the discovery of an AIDS serum.
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1981
Polish labor leader Lech Walesa is arrested and the government decrees martial law, restricting civil rights and suspending operation of the independent trade union Solidarity.
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1973
Great Britain cuts the work week to three days to save energy.
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1972
Astronaut Gene Cernan climbs into his lunar lander on the moon and prepares to lift off. He is the last man to set foot on the moon.
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1968
President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mexico’s President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz meet on a bridge at El Paso, Texas, to officiate at ceremonies returning the long-disputed El Chamizal area to the Mexican side of the border.
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1967
Jamie Foxx, actor, singer.
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1954
John Anderson, country singer, musician.
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1951
After meeting with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Harry S Truman vows to purge all disloyal government workers.
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1948
Ted Nugent, singer, songwriter, musician, actor.
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Jeff Baxter, musician with Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers bands.
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1945
France and Britain agree to quit Syria and Lebanon.
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1941
British forces launch an offensive in Libya.