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1991
In South Africa, Winnie Mandela is sentenced to six years in prison for her part in the kidnapping and beating of three black youths and the death of a fourth.
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1973
The U.S. space station Skylab is launched.
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1969
Three companies of the 101st Airborne Division fail to push North Vietnamese forces off Hill 937 in South Vietnam.
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1961
A bus carrying black and white civil rights activists is bombed and burned in Alabama.
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1948
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion establishes the State of Israel.
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1946
Robert Jarvik, American physician.
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1944
George Lucas, film director and producer (Star Wars).
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1942
The British Army, in retreat from Burma, reaches India.
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1940
Holland surrenders to Germany.
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1935
A plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
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1933
Richard P. Brickner, novelist (The Broken Year).
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1897
Sidney Bechet, jazz clarinetist and soprano saxaphone player.
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“”Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Phillip Sousa is performed for the first time in Philadelphia.
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Guglielmo Marconi sends the first communication by wireless telegraph.
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1863
Union General Nathanial Banks heads towards Port Hudson along the Mississippi River.