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1994
Millions of Americans watch former football player O.J. Simpson–facing murder charges–drive his Ford Bronco through Los Angeles, followed by police.
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1972
Five men are arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
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1970
North Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail line in Cambodia.
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1965
27 B-52s hit Viet Cong outposts, but lose two planes in South Vietnam.
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1963
The U.S. Supreme Court bans the required reading of the Lord’s prayer and Bible in public schools.
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1953
Soviet tanks fight thousands of Berlin workers rioting against the East German government.
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1950
Surgeon Richard Lawler performs the first kidney transplant operation in Chicago.
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1944
French troops land on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.
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1942
Rod Padgett, poet.
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Yank a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, begins publication.
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1940
The Soviet Union occupies Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
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1932
The U.S. Senate defeats the Bonus Bill as 10,000 veterans mass around the Capitol.
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1931
British authorities in China arrest Indochinese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh.
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1930
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill becomes law, placing the highest tariff on imports to the United States.
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1926
Spain threatens to quit the League of Nations if Germany is allowed to join.