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2012
Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip.
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2008
First G-20 economic summit convenes, in Washington, DC.
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2001
Northern Alliance fighters take control of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.
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1995
Budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress forces temporary closure of national parks and museums; federal agencies forced to operate with skeleton staff.
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1990
Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany sign a treaty officially making the Oder-Neisse line the border between their countries.
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1984
The Space Shuttle Discovery‘s crew rescues a second satellite.
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1982
Lech Walesa, leader of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity movement, is released by communist authorities after 11 months confinement; he would win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and be elected Poland’s president in 1990.
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1979
US President Jimmy Carter freezes all Iranian assets in the United States in response to Iranian militants holding more than 50 Americans hostage.
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1969
The United States launches Apollo 12, the second mission to the Moon, from Cape Kennedy.
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1968
Yale University announces its plan to go co-ed.
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1965
The U.S. First Cavalry Division battles with the North Vietnamese Army in the Ia Drang Valley, the first ground combat for American troops.
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1963
Greece frees hundreds who were jailed in the Communist uprising of 1944-1950.
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Iceland gets a new island when a volcano pushes its way up out of the sea five miles off the southern coast.
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1961
President Kennedy increases the number of American advisors in Vietnam from 1,000 to 16,000.
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1960
President Dwight Eisenhower orders U.S. naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charge Castro with starting uprisings.