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2012
A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills over 110 people.
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1995
Ireland votes 50.28% to 49.72% to end its 70-year-old ban on divorce.
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1992
US Congress passes the Brady Bill requiring a 5-day waiting period for handgun sales; the bill is named for Pres. Ronald Reagan’s press secretary who was left partially paralyzed by a bullet during an assassination attempt on Reagan.
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1979
The United States admits that thousands of troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange.
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1977
Greece announces the discovery of the tomb of King Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.
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1963
Jack Ruby fatally shoots the accused assassin of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, in the garage of the Dallas Police Department.
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1961
The United Nations adopts bans on nuclear arms over American protests.
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1950
UN troops begin an assault into the rest of North Korea, hoping to end the Korean War by Christmas.
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1949
Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded Monica Lewinsky’s confidential phone calls about Lewinsky’s affair with then-President Bill Clinton.
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The Iron and Steel Act nationalizes the steel industry in Britain.
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1948
Spider Robinson, Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction author (Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon; Melancholy Elephants); received Robert A. Heinlein Award for lifetime achievement in 2008.
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1946
Ted Bundy, serial killer; he confessed to 30 murders between 1974-78, but the total could be much higher.
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1944
American B-29s flying from Saipan bomb Tokyo.
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1939
In Czechoslovakia, the Gestapo execute 120 students who are accused of anti-Nazi plotting.
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1938
Mexico seizes oil land adjacent to Texas.