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2008
Dow Jones Industrial Average sinks to lowest level in 11 years in response to failures in the US financial system.
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1998
First module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.
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1992
Fire in England’s Windsor Castle causes over £50 million in damages.
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1981
Microsoft Windows 1.0 released.
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1978
South Africa backs down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia.
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1975
Dierks Bentley, country singer, songwriter (“What Was I Thinkin'”, “Every Mile a Memory”).
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1974
The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT.
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1971
The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies.
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1967
U.S. census reports the population at 200 million.
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1963
Wan Yanhai, Chinese activist.
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1962
President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing.
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1955
The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated.
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1950
U.S. troops push to the Yalu River, within five miles of Manchuria.
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1947
Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey.
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1946
Duane Allman, singer, songwriter, musician; co-founder and primary leader of the The Allman Brothers Band until his death in 1971.