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1986
Congress approves $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua.
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1973
White House Counsel John Dean admits President Richard Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
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1964
President Lyndon Johnson orders 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.
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1962
The U.S. Supreme Court bans official prayers in public schools.
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1959
The Cuban government seizes 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.
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1950
North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
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1948
The Soviet Union tightens its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city.
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1946
Ho Chi Minh travels to France for talks on Vietnamese independence.
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1941
Finland declares war on the Soviet Union.
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1921
Samuel Gompers is elected head of the American Federation of Labor for the 40th time.
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1920
The Greeks take 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.
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1903
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), novelist, essayist and critic (Animal Farm, 1984).
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Marie Curie announces her discovery of radium.
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1887
George Abbott, American playwright, director and producer (Three Men on a Horse, Damn Yankees).
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1886
Henry (Hap) Arnold, U.S. Army Air Force general during World War II.