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2011
Yemeni President Ali Abullah Saleh signs a deal to to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity; the agreement came after 11 months of protests.
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2006
In the second-deadliest day of sectarian violence in Iraq since the beginning of the 2003 war, 215 people are killed and nearly 260 injured by bombs in Sadr City.
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2005
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf elected president of Liberia; she is the first woman to lead an African nation.
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1992
The first Smartphone, IBM Simon, introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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1990
The first all-woman expedition to South Pole sets off from Antarctica on the part of a 70-day trip; the group includes 12 Russians, 3 Americans and 1 Japanese.
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1981
US Pres. Ronald Reagan signs top secret directive giving the CIA authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
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1980
Ishmael Beah, authored A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, a memoir of his time as a Sierra Leonean child solider in that country’s civil war.
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In Europe’s biggest earthquake since 1915, 3,000 people are killed in Italy.
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1968
Four men hijack an American plane, with 87 passengers, from Miami to Cuba.
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1961
John Schnatter, businessman; founded Papa John’s Pizza.
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1953
North Korea signs 10-year aid pact with Peking.
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1945
Wartime meat and butter rationing ends in the United States.
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1943
Andrew Goodman, civil rights activist; murdered by Ku Klux Klan in 1964 near Philadelphia, Miss.
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U.S. Marines declare the island of Tarawa secure.
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1942
The film Casablanca premieres in New York City.