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1986
NASA publishes a report on the Challenger accident.
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1972
American advisor John Paul Vann is killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam.
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1959
The first ballistic missile-carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, is launched.
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1954
At the Army-McCarthy hearings, attorney Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency?”
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1951
After several unsuccessful attacks on French colonial troops, North Vietnam’s General Vo Nguyen Giap orders Viet Minh to withdraw from the Red River Delta.
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1945
Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declares that Japan will fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.
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1942
The Japanese high command announces that “The Midway Occupation operations have been temporarily postponed.”
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1931
Robert H. Goddard patents a rocket-fueled aircraft design.
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1923
Bulgaria’s government is overthrown by the military.
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1916
Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense under presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
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1915
Les Paul, American guitarist and electric guitar innovator.
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William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson.
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1908
King Edward VII of England becomes first British monarch to visit Russia, meeting with Czar Nicholas II in an effort to improve relations between the two countries.
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1901
George Price, cartoonist.
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1891
Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist.