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1982
Civil rights workers begin a march from Carrolton to Montgomery, Alabama.
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1977
Queen Elizabeth marks her Silver Jubilee.
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1975
President Gerald Ford asks Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia.
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1968
Charles de Gaulle opens the 19th Winter Olympics in France.
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1965
Seven U.S. GIs are killed in a Viet Cong raid on a base in Pleiku.
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1964
Paris and London agree to build a rail tunnel under the English Channel.
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Cuba blocks the water supply to Guantanamo Naval Base in rebuke of the United State’s seizure of four Cuban fishing boats.
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1963
The United States reports that all Soviet offensive arms are out of Cuba.
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1945
Bob Marley, reggae musician.
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MacArthur reports the fall of Manila, and the liberation of 5,000 prisoners.
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1944
Kwajalein Island in the Central Pacific falls to U.S. Army troops.
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1941
The RAF clears the way as British take Benghazi, trapping thousands of Italians.
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1940
Tom Brokaw, NBC News anchorman.
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1936
Adolf Hitler opens the Fourth Winter Olympics.
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1933
Walter E. Fountroy, politician and civil rights leader.