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1987
President Reagan takes full responsibility for the Iran-Contra affair in a national address.
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1975
Queen Elizabeth II knights Charlie Chaplin.
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1970
Fifty-seven people are killed as the French submarine Eurydice sinks in the Mediterranean Sea.
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1963
Six people get the death sentence in Paris plotting to kill President Charles de Gaulle.
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1952
North Korea accuses the United nations of using germ warfare.
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1944
Berlin is bombed by the American forces for the first time.
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1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to his first term as president in Washington, D.C.
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1932
Miriam Makeba, South African singer.
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1928
Alan Sillitoe, novelist (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner).
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1921
Warren G. Harding is sworn in as America’s 29th President.
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1914
Doctor Fillatre of Paris, France successfully separates Siamese twins.
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1912
The French council of war unanimously votes a mandatory three-year military service.
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1908
The New York board of education bans the act of whipping students in school.
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1904
Ding Ling, Chinese writer and women’s rights activist.
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Russian troops begin to retreat toward the Manchurian border as 100,000 Japanese advance in Korea.