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1991
Coalition forces liberate Kuwait after seven months of occupation by the Iraqi army.
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1988
Debi Thomas becomes the first African American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.
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1973
U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Virginia pool club can’t bar residents because of color.
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1969
Thousands of students protest President Richard Nixon‘s arrival in Rome.
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1963
The Soviet Union says that 10,000 troops will remain in Cuba.
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1962
South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem is unharmed as two planes bomb the presidential palace in Saigon.
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1953
F-84 Thunderjets raid North Korean base on Yalu River.
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1942
British Commandos raid a German radar station at Bruneval on the French coast.
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1939
The Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes.
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1934
Ralph Nader, consumer advocate.
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1933
The burning down of the Reichstag building in Berlin gives the Nazis the opportunity to suspend personal liberty with increased power.
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1932
Elizabeth Taylor, actress (Cleopatra, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).
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1930
Joanne Woodward, actress (Rachel, Rachel, The Three Faces of Eve).
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1925
Glacier Bay National Monument is dedicated in Alaska.
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1920
The United States rejects a Soviet peace offer as propaganda.