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1986
President Ronald Reagan orders emergency aid for the Honduran army. U.S. helicopters take Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border.
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1981
The U.S. Embassy in San Salvador is damaged when gunmen attack, firing rocket propelled grenades and machine guns.
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1975
Hue is lost and Da Nang is endangered by North Vietnamese forces. The United States orders a refugee airlift to remove those in danger.
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1970
The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.
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1969
John Lennon and Yoko Ono stage a bed-in for peace in Amsterdam.
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1965
Martin Luther King Jr. leads a group of 25,000 to the state capital in Montgomery, Ala.
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1957
The European Common Market Treaty is signed in Rome. The goal is to create a common market for all products–especially coal and steel.
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1954
RCA manufactures its first color TV set and begins mass production.
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1953
The USS Missouri fires on targets at Kojo, North Korea, the last time her guns fire until the Persian Gulf War of 1992.
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1942
Aretha Franklin, American singer, the “Queen of Soul.”
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1941
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1940
The United States agrees to give Britain and France access to all American warplanes.
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1934
Gloria Steinem, political activist, editor.
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1931
Fifty people are killed in riots that break out in India. Mahatma Gandhi was one of many people assaulted.
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1925
(Mary) Flannery O’Connor, novelist and short story writer.