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1971
The United States turns over complete responsibility of the Demilitarized Zone to South Vietnamese units.
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1943
American and British forces make an amphibious landing on Sicily.
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1942
Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the attic above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
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1937
David Hockney, painter.
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1936
June Jordan, poet and author.
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1933
Oliver Sachs, neurologist and author (Awakenings).
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1926
Mathilde Krim, geneticist, founder of the AIDS foundation.
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1908
Minor White, abstract photographer.
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1900
The Commonwealth of Australia is established by an act of British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government.
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1894
Dorothy Thompson, journalist, writer and radio commentator.
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1887
Samuel Eliot Morison, biographer and historian.
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1861
Confederate cavalry led by John Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky.
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1858
Franz Boas, anthropologist.
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1850
U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies in office at the age of 65. He is succeeded by Millard Fillmore.
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1819
Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine.