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1985
Associated Press newsman, Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut.
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1984
Mozambique and South Africa sign a pact banning support for one another’s internal foes.
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1968
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1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson submits a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.
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1954
CBS introduces The Morning Show hosted by Walter Cronkite to compete with NBC’s Today Show.
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1945
Iwo Jima is declared secure by U.S. forces although small pockets of Japanese resistance still exist.
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1939
Germany occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia.
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1935
Adolf Hitler orders a German rearmament and violates the Versailles Treaty.
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1928
The United States plans to send 1,000 more Marines to Nicaragua.
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1926
Jerry Lewis, American comedian and film actor.
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Physicist Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket.
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1917
Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicates his throne.
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1913
The 15,000-ton battleship Pennsylvania is launched at Newport News, Va.
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1912
Thelma Catherine Patricia Ryan Nixon, first lady to President Richard Nixon.
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1907
The British cruiser Invincible, the world’s largest, is completed at Glasgow shipyards.