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1991
Four Los Angeles police are charged in the beating of Rodney King.
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1968
The U.S. mint halts the practice of buying and selling gold.
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1967
President Lyndon Johnson names Ellsworth Bunker as the new ambassador to Saigon. Bunker replaces Lodge.
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1965
Gamal Abdel Nasser is re-elected Egyptian President.
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1960
Ten nations meet in Geneva to discuss disarmament.
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1956
The first performance of My Fair Lady, starring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison, takes place on Broadway.
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1955
The U.S. Air Force unveils the first self-guided missile.
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1951
French General de Lattre demands that Paris send him more troops for the fight in Indochina.
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1949
Almost four years after the end of World War II, clothes rationing in Great Britain ends.
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1944
Cassino, Italy is destroyed by Allied bombing.
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1939
Germany occupies Bohemia and Moravia, Czechoslovakia.
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1935
Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda bans four Berlin newspapers.
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1934
Henry Ford restores the $5-a-day wage.
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1933
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
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1916
Harry James, American band leader and trumpet player.