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1990
Lithuania declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
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1985
Mikhail Gorbachev is named the new Soviet leader.
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1973
An FBI agent is shot at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
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1969
Levi-Strauss starts to sell bell-bottomed jeans.
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1966
Three men are convicted of the murder of Malcolm X.
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1965
The American navy begins inspecting Vietnamese junks in hopes of ending arms smuggling to the South.
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1952
Douglas Adams, British writer, (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
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1942
General Douglas MacArthur leaves Bataan for Australia.
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1941
President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes the Lend-Lease Act which authorizes the act of giving war supplies to the Allies.
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1935
The German Air Force becomes an official organ of the Reich.
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1930
President Howard Taft becomes the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
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1926
Ralph David Abernathy, civil rights leader, associate of Dr. King.
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1908
Lawrence Welk, orchestra leader.
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1907
President Teddy Roosevelt induces California to revoke its anti-Japanese legislation.
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1905
The Parisian subway is officially inaugurated.