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1987
Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers is bought for $39.85 million.
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1981
President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in Washington, D.C. by John W. Hinckley Jr.
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1975
As the North Vietnamese forces move toward Saigon, desperate South Vietnamese soldiers mob rescue jets.
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1972
Hanoi launches its heaviest attack in four years, crossing the DMZ.
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1957
Tunisia and Morocco sign a friendship treaty in Rabat.
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1950
President Harry S Truman denounces Senator Joe McCarthy as a saboteur of U.S. foreign policy.
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1946
The Allies seize 1,000 Nazis attempting to revive the Nazi party in Frankfurt.
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1945
The Red Army advances into Austria.
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1944
The U.S. fleet attacks Palau, near the Philippines.
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1943
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first collaboration, Oklahoma, opens on Broadway.
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1941
The German Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel begins its first offensive against British forces in Libya.
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1936
Britain announces a naval construction program of 38 warships. This is the largest construction program in 15 years.
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1916
Mexican bandit Pancho Villa kills 172 at the Guerrero garrison in Mexico.
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1909
The Queensboro Bridge in New York opens. It is the first double decker bridge and links Manhattan and Queens.
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1885
In Afghanistan, Russian troops inflict a crushing defeat on Afghan forces, despite orders not to fight.