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1992
Bosnian Serbs begin sniping in Sarajevo, after Croats and Muslims vote for Bosnian independence.
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1985
The Pentagon accepts the theory that an atomic war would block the sun, causing a “nuclear winter.”
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1974
A grand jury indicts seven of President Nixon‘s aides for the conspiracy on Watergate.
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1969
Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball.
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1968
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara is replaced by Clark Clifford.
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1960
1,000 Black students pray and sing the national anthem on the steps of the old Confederate Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.
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1943
The British RAF conducts strategic bombing raids on all European railway lines.
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1942
Japanese troops land on Java in the Pacific.
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1941
Bulgaria joins the Axis as the Nazis occupy Sofia.
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1935
Germany officially establishes the Luftwaffe.
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1932
The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped from the Lindbergh home near Princeton, New Jersey.
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1930
Fran Tarkenton, NFL quarterback
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1921
Howard Nemerov, writer, another Pulitzer Prize recipient.
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Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator.
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The Allies reject a $7.5 billion reparations offer in London. German delegation decides to quit all talks.