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2011
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, former president of Tunisia, flees to Saudi Arabia after a series of demonstrations against his regime.
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2010
Yemen declares war on al-Qaeda terrorist group.
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2005
Huygens probe lands on Saturn’s moon Titan.
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2004
The Republic of Georgia restores the “five cross flag” as its national flag after some 500 years of disuse.
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2000
UN tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to prison for up to 25 years; they were charged with killing some 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village in 1993.
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1980
The United Nations votes 104-18 to deplore the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan.
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1969
A blast on the U.S. carrier Enterprise in the Pacific results in 24 dead and 85 injured.
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1968
LL Cool J (James Todd Smith), influential rapper (“I’m Bad”); actor (NCIS: Los Angeles TV series).
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1952
Maureen Dowd, New York Times columnist, author; won Pulitzer Prize for her series on the Monica Lewinsky scandal during the Clinton administration.
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1948
T Bone Burnett (Joseph Henry Burnett), musician, songwriter, Grammy-winning producer (O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack).
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1947
Taylor Branch, author, historian; best known for his America in the King Years trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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1944
Nina Totenberg, journalist; legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio.
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1943
Italian occupation authorities refuse to deport Jews living in their territories in France.
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Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Charles DeGaulle meet at Casablanca to discuss the direction of the war.
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1942
President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders all aliens in the U.S. to register with the government.