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1999
A private plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. is lost over the waters off Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
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1969
Apollo 11 blasts off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, heading for a landing on the moon.
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1948
Pinchas Zukerman, violinist and conductor.
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Ruben Blades, songwriter and actor.
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1945
The United States detonates the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, N. M.
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1944
Soviet troops occupy Vilnius, Lithuania, in their drive towards Germany.
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1941
Dag Solstad, Norwegian novelist and playwright.
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1940
Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of England.
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1928
Anita Brookner, writer (Hotel du Lac).
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1918
Czar Nicholas and his family are murdered by Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg, Russia.
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1911
Ginger Rogers, actress and dancer.
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1907
Barbara Stanwyck, actress.
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1896
Trygve Lie, first secretary-general of the United Nations.
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1882
Mary Todd Lincoln, the widow of Abraham Lincoln, dies of a stroke.
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1875
The new French constitution is finalized.