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1986
Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson.
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1981
The United States discloses biological weapons tests in Texas in 1966.
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1977
Congo President Marien Ngouabi is killed by a suicide commando.
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1975
South Vietnam abandons most of the Central Highlands to North Vietnamese forces.
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1971
U.S. helicopters airlift 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers out of Laos.
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1970
The U.S. Postal Service is paralyzed by the first postal strike.
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1969
President Richard M. Nixon authorizes Operation Menue, the ‘secret’ bombing of Cambodia.
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1965
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first man to spacewalk when he exits his Voskhod 2 space capsule while in orbit around the Earth.
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1953
The Braves baseball team announces that they are moving from Boston to Milwaukee.
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1950
Nationalist troops land on the mainland of China and capture Communist-held Sungmen.
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1944
The Russians reach the Romanian border.
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1943
American forces take Gafsa in Tunisia.
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Adolf Hitler calls off the offensive in the Caucasus.
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1942
The third military draft begins in the United States.
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1939
Georgia finally ratifies the Bill of Rights, 150 years after the birth of the federal government. Connecticut and Massachusetts, the only other states to hold out, also ratify the Bill of Rights in this year.