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1967
North Vietnamese soldiers attack South Vietnam’s only producing coal mine at Nong Son.
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1962
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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1954
Food rationing ends in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.
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1950
U.S. carrier-based planes attack airfields in the Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean War.
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1945
U.S. troops land at Balikpapan and take Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific.
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1944
The U.S. First Army opens a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France.
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1937
Tom Stoppard, British playwright (Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead).
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1921
Francois-Arnold Reichenbach, documentary filmmaker.
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1912
Elizabeth Taylor, novelist and short story writer.
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1908
M.F.K. Fisher, food writer.
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1903
The first cable across the Pacific Ocean is spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila.
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1901
The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy, commits its last American robbery near Wagner, Montana, taking $65,000 from a Great Northern train.
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1883
Franz Kafka, Prague-born German novelist (The Metamorphosis, The Trail).
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1878
George M. Cohan, American entertainer and songwriter.
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John Wise flies the first dirigible in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.