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1960
Israel announces the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
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1949
The Federal Republic of West Germany is proclaimed.
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1947
Jane Kenyon, poet (Let Evening Come, Otherwise).
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1945
Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, commits suicide after being captured by Allied forces.
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1934
Robert A. Moog, electrical engineer, creator of the Moog synthesizer.
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Gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by Texas Rangers.
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1928
Rosemary Clooney, singer.
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1920
Helen O’Connell, big band vocalist.
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1915
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
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1910
Artie Shaw, bandleader and clarinetist.
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1908
John Bardeen, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor.
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1900
Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
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1891
Par Lagerkvist, Swedish writer (The Dwarf, Barabbas).
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1875
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president and chairman of the board for General Motors.
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1864
Union General Ulysses Grant attempts to outflank Confederate Robert E. Lee in the Battle of North Anna, Virginia.
