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1982
President Ronald Reagan formally links progress in arms control to Soviet repression in Poland.
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1979
Abu Hassan, the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, is killed by a bomb in Beirut.
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1971
Communist forces shell Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the first time.
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1944
U.S. troops under Major General John P. Lucas make an amphibious landing behind German lines at Anzio, Italy, just south of Rome.
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1943
Axis forces pull out of Tripoli for Tunisia, destroying bases as they leave.
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1939
A Nazi order erases the old officer caste, tying the army directly to the Party.
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1932
Government troops crush a Communist uprising in Northern Spain.
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1930
Admiral Richard Byrd charts a vast area of Antarctica.
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1913
Turkey consents to the Balkan peace terms and gives up Adrianople.
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1912
Second Monte Carlo auto race begins.
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1906
Willa Brown-Chappell, pioneer aviator.
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1905
Russian troops fire on civilians beginning Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg.
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1890
Fred Vinson, Thirteenth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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1879
Eighty-two British soldiers hold off attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke’s Drift in South Africa.
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1874
D.W. [David Wark] Griffith, influential U.S. film director (The Birth of A Nation, Intolerance).