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1991
Iraqi forces attack into Saudi Arabian town of Kafji, but are turned back by Coalition forces.
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1984
The Soviets issue a formal complaint against alleged U.S. arms treaty violations.
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President Ronald Reagan announces that he will run for a second term.
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1979
President Jimmy Carter commutes the sentence of Patty Hearst.
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1967
Thirty-seven civilians are killed by a U.S. helicopter attack in Vietnam.
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1950
Riots break out in Johannesburg, South Africa, over the policy of Apartheid.
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1944
The world’s greatest warship, Missouri, is launched.
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1942
German and Italian troops take Benghazi in North Africa.
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1931
Winston Churchill resigns as Stanley Baldwin’s aide.
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1929
The Seeing Eye, America’s first school for training dogs to guide the blind, founded in Nashville, Tennessee.
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1926
Violette Neatley Anderson becomes the first African-American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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1918
The Supreme Allied Council meets at Versailles.
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1880
W.C. Fields, comedian and actor (David Copperfield, My Little Chickadee).
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1865
William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders attack Danville, Kentucky.
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1861
Kansas is admitted into the Union as the 34th state.