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1987
Margaret Thatcher wins her third consecutive term as Prime Minister.
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1967
Israel and Syria accept a U. N. cease-fire.
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1963
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.
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1944
U.S. carrier-based planes attack Japanese airfields on Guam , Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan.
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1943
The Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after a heavy air bombardment.
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1940
The Italian Air Force bombs the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.
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1934
The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ends in failure.
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1932
Athol Fugard, South African playwright, director and actor (The Blood Knot, “Master Harold” . . . and the Boys).
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1930
William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, dives to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda, in a diving chamber called a bathysphere.
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1927
Charles Lindbergh, a captain in the US Army Air Corps Reserve, receives the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded, for his solo trans-Atlantic flight.
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1925
William Styron, American novelist (The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice).
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1915
British troops take Cameroon in Africa.
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1913
Vince Lombardi, American football coach.
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1910
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French oceanic explorer, filmmaker, author and inventor of the aqualung.
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1903
King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by members of the Serbia army.