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1960
The Soviet Union charges American pilot Francis Gary Powers with espionage.
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1953
Anna Quindlen, novelist.
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1943
Faye Wattleton, women’s rights advocate.
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American B-24 bombers strike Japanese-held Wake Island for the first time.
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1941
20 B-17s fly in their first mission with the Royal Air Force over Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
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1918
Ernest Hemingway is wounded in Italy while working as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross.
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1908
Nelson Rockefeller, U.S. vice president to Gerald Ford.
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1906
Philip C. Johnson, architect.
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1905
The mutinous crew of the battleship Potemkin surrenders to Romanian authorities.
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1879
The first ship to use electric lights departs from San Francisco, California.
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1869
William Vaughn Moody, poet and playwright (The Great Divide).
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1865
Four of the conspirators in President Abraham Lincoln‘s assassination are hanged in Washington, D.C.
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1864
Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston retreats into Atlanta to prevent being flanked by Union General William T. Sherman.
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1863
Demoralized by the surrender of Vicksburg, Confederates in Port Hudson, Louisiana, surrender to Union forces.
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1859
The truce at Villafranca Austria cedes Lombardy to France.