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1980
President Jimmy Carter reinstates draft registration for males 18 years of age.
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1976
North and South Vietnam are officially reunified.
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1967
The U.S. launches Operation Buffalo in Vietnam.
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1964
President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law.
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1961
Novelist Ernest Hemingway commits suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
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1937
American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappears in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world.
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1926
Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist.
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Congress establishes the Army Air Corps.
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1918
Robert Sarnoff, president of NBC.
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1916
Barry Gray, radio talk show host.
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1908
Thurgood Marshall, first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
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1900
Tyrone Guthrie, English theater director.
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1894
Andre Kertesz, photographer.
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1881
Charles J. Guiteau fatally wounds President James A. Garfield in Washington, D.C.
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1877
Hermann Hesse, German novelist and poet.