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1981
The United States plans to send 20 more advisors and $25 million in military aid to El Salvador.
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1978
Czech pilot Vladimir Remek becomes the first non-Russian, non-American in space.
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1974
A grand jury in Washington, D.C. concludes that President Nixon was indeed involved in the Watergate cover-up.
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1973
Federal forces surround Wounded Knee, South Dakota, which is occupied by members of the militant American Indian Movement who are holding at least 10 hostages.
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1968
The siege of Khe Sanh ends in Vietnam, the U.S. Marines stationed there are still in control of the mountain top.
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1965
More than 150 U.S. and South Vietnamese planes bomb two bases in North Vietnam in the first of the “Rolling Thunder” raids.
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1956
France grants independence to Morocco.
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1955
Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks‘ famous arrest for the same offense.
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1951
The U.S. Navy launches the K-1, the first modern submarine designed to hunt enemy submarines.
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1946
Ho Chi Minh is elected president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
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1945
MacArthur raises the U.S. flag on Corregidor in the Philippines.
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1943
The center of Berlin is bombed by the RAF. Some 900 tons of bombs are dropped in a half hour.
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1942
John Irving, novelist (The World According to Garp).
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1931
Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary General of the Soviet Union. Responsible for restructuring the Soviet economy (perestroika) and openness and information (glasnost).
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1930
Novelist D.H. Lawrence dies of tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Vence, France, at the age of 45.