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1978
The U.S. reports finding wiretaps in the American embassy in Moscow.
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1963
Governor George Wallace vows to defy an injunction ordering integration of the University of Alabama.
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1958
Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France.
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1942
America begins sending Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union.
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1941
The German Army completes the capture of Crete as the Allied evacuation ends.
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1939
The Douglas DC-4 makes its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York.
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1932
Christopher Lasch, American social critic and writer.
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1926
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker), film actress and icon.
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1921
A white mob attacks the thriving Black community of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing 85 people in what comes to be known as the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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1916
The National Defense Act increases the strength of the U.S. National Guard by 450,000 men.
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1915
Germany conducts the first zeppelin air raid over England.
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1901
John van Druten, English playwright (I am a Camera).
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1898
Molly Picon, comic actress and singer.
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1878
John Masefield, English poet.
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1877
U.S. troops are authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico.