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1999
NATO declares an official end to its bombing campaign of Yugoslavia.
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1972
President Richard Nixon names General Creighton Abrams as Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
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1967
Boxing champion Muhammad Ali is convicted of refusing induction into the American armed services.
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1964
General William Westmoreland succeeds General Paul Harkins as head of the U.S. forces in Vietnam.
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1963
The United States and the Soviet Union agree to establish a hot line between Washington and Moscow.
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1955
The AFL and CIO agree to combine names for a merged group.
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1946
Andre Watts, pianist.
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1941
The U.S. Army Air Force is established, replacing the Army Air Corps.
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1928
Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the National Front party in France.
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1924
Audie Murphy, American soldier during World War II, author and actor.
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Chet Atkins, guitarist.
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1923
France announces it will seize the Rhineland to assist Germany in paying her war debts.
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1920
Race riots in Chicago, Illinois leave two dead and many wounded.
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1910
Josephine Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Jordanstown, Wildwood).
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Chester Arthur Burnett, blues singer.